Compress Video to 8 MB Online
Get any clip under 8 MB with the best quality that fits. The planner reads your video first, predicts the result before anything uploads, and lands the encode just under the cap.
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Who still needs 8 MB — and why it became a standard
For years 8 MB was Discord’s free upload cap, and the number outlived the rule: forum attachment fields, chat integrations, bug trackers and older apps still enforce it, and plenty of bots reject anything larger. Discord itself now allows 20 MB on the free tier — if that is your actual destination, the 20 MB page buys you a lot more quality — but when the field in front of you says 8, this page pins the target so the output never overshoots it.
The tool aims slightly under the cap on purpose: container overhead counts against you, and a file that lands at 8.1 MB fails exactly like an 80 MB one. Two-pass encoding plus a corrective re-encode guard means the delivered file sits safely inside the limit.
What honestly fits in 8 MB
8 MB is 64 megabits, and arithmetic decides the rest: spend 4 Mbps of good 1080p and you get about 15 seconds; drop to 720p around 1.5 Mbps and 50–60 seconds fit; a 480p encode stretches past the minute mark. That is why this size suits clips — a goal, a bug reproduction, a reaction, a highlight — rather than full recordings.
The planner does this arithmetic for your exact file: it reads the duration, walks down the resolution and frame-rate ladder only as far as the budget forces, and tells you before upload when a video is simply too long to look good at 8 MB — delivering the closest possible file instead of failing, and saying so.
Game clips under 8 MB without turning to mush
Game footage is the hardest case: high motion, fine detail, usually 60 fps. Two levers do most of the work. Halving 60 fps to 30 frees almost half the bitrate for the frames that remain, and switching to H.265 packs the same visual quality into roughly 25–40% fewer bytes — the planner does both automatically when the budget is tight, and the H.264 vs H.265 guide explains the playback trade-off.
If the clip has no commentary worth keeping, tick “Remove audio” in the advanced options: even a modest audio track spends 5–10% of an 8 MB budget, and on a 30-second clip that difference is visible on screen. Trimming the clip before compressing helps more than any setting — every second you cut is bitrate the rest of the clip inherits.
When 8 MB is tighter than you actually need
Check the real limit before sacrificing quality to a number from 2019: today’s Discord free tier takes 20 MB, WhatsApp video messages allow 16 — the 16 MB page exists for exactly that — and most modern forms accept 10 MB, covered by the 10 MB page.
For anything longer than a clip, start at the full video compressor instead: its platform presets and quality modes will find a far better size-quality balance for multi-minute footage than any single hard cap.
Three steps, no account
Drop in your clip
MP4, MOV, MKV, AVI, WEBM or WMV — the tool analyzes it and predicts the 8 MB result.
Check the prediction
See the expected size, resolution and quality before anything uploads.
Compress and download
Two-pass encoding lands the file just under 8 MB, ready to attach anywhere.
Frequently asked questions
How do I compress a video to 8 MB for Discord?
Upload the clip and press Compress — the target is already pinned to 8 MB. Note that Discord’s free tier now accepts 20 MB, so unless a bot or an older server rule holds you to 8, the 20 MB page will give you noticeably better quality.
How long can a video be and still fit in 8 MB?
As a rule of thumb: 15–20 seconds at sharp 720p–1080p, up to about a minute at modest 480p–720p, and a few minutes only at low resolution. The tool predicts the exact outcome for your file before you upload anything.
Will an 8 MB video still look good?
For short clips, yes — the planner spends the whole budget on the seconds you actually have, preferring a clean lower resolution over a smeary high one. For long videos it will honestly warn you that 8 MB cannot look good, and tell you the smallest size that can.
Can I remove the sound to make my video smaller than 8 MB?
Yes — “Remove audio” in the advanced options hands the audio track’s share of the budget back to the picture. On tight targets like 8 MB that is often the difference between a soft image and a crisp one.