Ch. 02·Compress to 8 MB
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Discord's free tier caps uploads at 10 MB. An 8 MB target clears that cap with margin to spare, so the clip posts without Nitro every time. Cloud-rendered H.265 or AV1 hits your exact size target, no watermark, no install. Pair with the AI video upscaler or browse the free scene packs.
Examples · Real reductions
−98% reduction
−90% reduction
−82% reduction
You set the size. The encoder finds the highest-quality H.265 or AV1 settings that hit it exactly, no bitrates to guess at.
Step 01
Drag any MP4, MOV, WebM, AVI, or MKV, up to 20 GB on Pro.
Step 02
Select the Discord preset (or type your exact size).
Step 03
Cloud-encoded MP4 hits your dashboard in under 2 minutes, ready for Discord channels and DMs.
Other size targets
Questions
Specifics on hitting 8 MB for Discord, quality, runtime, and what survives the squeeze.
Discord's free-tier upload limit is 10 MB in 2026 (it was 8 MB years ago, then 25 MB, then cut back down in 2024). An 8 MB target puts your clip safely under the current 10 MB cap with headroom, so it posts without Nitro and without edge-case rejections.
Yes. At 8 MB the output sits 2 MB under Discord's 10 MB free-tier cap, so you never hit the rejection edge cases that files compressed right up to the limit sometimes do.
About 90 seconds at 720p with H.265, or 30–45 seconds at 1080p. Past that the compressor will warn that quality won't be acceptable and suggest you trim first.
Nitro Basic raises the limit to 50 MB and full Nitro to 500 MB. If you have either, use the 50 MB compressor instead. The quality at 50 MB is dramatically better than 8 MB for the same source.
No. YouPro doesn't add watermarks on any plan.
Yes. The 8 MB cap applies the same way to DMs as to channels.