Discord Nitro Upload Limit: What You Get at Each Tier (2026)

Nitro upload limits per plan

Three subscription tiers map to three upload caps, and the gap between them is larger than most people expect. The table below puts every current number in one row, including what each cap means for actual video length after compression, since a raw 1GB file is not what most people end up sending.

Server Boost levels raise the cap for every member of a boosted server: Level 2 allows 50MB and Level 3 allows 100MB per Discord's Server Boosting FAQ (updated Sep 14, 2026), and an experiment grants 250MB uploads to servers with at least 5 Boosts. Those apply alongside your plan, whichever is higher.

Wait, is it 500MB or 1GB? Clearing up the old number

If most guides you find say 500MB, they are out of date rather than wrong about the system. The 500MB cap arrived with the April 2023 pricing overhaul and held for more than three years, so it is baked into thousands of blog posts, Reddit answers, and AI summaries. On August 13, 2026, Discord announced on its official channels that Nitro's upload limit had doubled from 500MB to 1GB, and the File Attachments FAQ was updated to match. The same cycle happened to the free tier, which went from 10MB to 20MB in August 2026 after sitting at 10MB since September 2024. Any page that quotes one of these numbers without a date is guessing which era it lives in.

The history is worth knowing because it keeps repeating: free uploads went 8MB, then 25MB in April 2023, back to 10MB in September 2024, then 20MB in August 2026, while Nitro climbed from 50MB in the early days to 100MB, then 500MB, then 1GB. Our complete Discord file size limit guide tracks the full timeline with sources for every change.

Whose plan matters when sending a big file?

The uploader's plan sets the limit, not the recipient's. A Nitro subscriber can send a 900MB video into a server full of free accounts, and everyone watches it inline exactly the same. That surprises people who assumed the whole channel needs Nitro. Two real exceptions exist: bots that re-upload or relay attachments operate under their owner's limits, and voice-channel or forum integrations sometimes enforce their own smaller caps in addition to Discord's. If a specific bot rejects a file your plan allows, the bot's cap is the one that fired, not Discord's.

How to actually send a large video with Nitro

Nitro's 1GB cap removes the size ceiling for practical purposes, so the workflow is mostly unchanged: drag the file into the chat box, wait for the upload bar, and send. Two habits still improve the experience. First, raw recordings often need no change at all now, but a 300MB clip takes far longer to upload on average connections than a 30MB one, and everyone in the channel on mobile data pays the download cost. Second, compressing first keeps videos playing inline instead of riding along as heavy attachments, and the Discord video compressor on this site hits any target up to and including Nitro's cap without uploading your file anywhere. Even with Nitro, sending a 720p file that weighs 50MB is usually the kinder move.

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