Social Media Image Sizes 2026: Instagram, LinkedIn, X, YouTube and More

Every platform has its own sizes, they change every year or two, and the wrong one gets cropped badly or blurred. Here is the 2026 reference, then a quick way to resize to any of them.

Instagram

• Feed portrait: 1080 × 1350 (4:5). The best choice: it takes the most feed space.
• Feed square: 1080 × 1080 (1:1).
• Stories and Reels: 1080 × 1920 (9:16). Keep text out of the top and bottom 250px, where the interface sits.
• Profile picture: 320 × 320, shown as a circle.

LinkedIn

• Post image, landscape: 1200 × 627.
• Post image, portrait: 1080 × 1350.
• Company cover: 1128 × 191.
• Profile banner: 1584 × 396.

X (Twitter)

• Single image post: 1600 × 900 (16:9).
• Header: 1500 × 500.
• Profile picture: 400 × 400.

Facebook

• Feed image: 1080 × 1350 or 1200 × 630.
• Cover photo: 1640 × 624 on desktop; the edges are cropped on mobile.

YouTube

• Thumbnail: 1280 × 720, under 2 MB.
• Channel banner: 2560 × 1440, with the safe area in the centre 1546 × 423.

Pinterest

• Standard pin: 1000 × 1500 (2:3).

Link previews (Open Graph)

• Open Graph image: 1200 × 630. Used by Facebook, LinkedIn, X, Slack, iMessage and WhatsApp when a link is shared. See the Open Graph image guide.

Resizing to any of these

The free GetRef Image Resizer has every size above as a preset. Drop an image, pick the platform, drag to choose what stays in frame, download. It runs in your browser; nothing is uploaded.

Keep a reference of what works

The posts that perform best are worth saving: the layout, the type, the thumbnail that got clicks. Screenshot them into a library you can search, so next time you start from what worked. How to build a design swipe file covers the habit.