Instagram Carousel Size 2026: Dimensions, Ratios & Grid Crop
The right Instagram carousel size is 1080 × 1350px (4:5). Every carousel dimension, how the 3:4 profile grid crops your first slide, the safe zone, and seamless carousel sizes.
InstaCarousel Team
The short answer
Use 1080 × 1350px (a 4:5 ratio) for every slide. It's the tallest shape Instagram shows in the feed for a carousel, so your post takes up the most screen. All slides in one carousel must be the same size.
Every Instagram carousel size
| Format | Ratio | Size in pixels | When to use it |
|---|---|---|---|
| Portrait | 4:5 | 1080 × 1350 | Default for almost everything. Most space in the feed. |
| Vertical (grid shape) | 3:4 | 1080 × 1440 | Matches the profile grid exactly, so nothing gets trimmed there. |
| Square | 1:1 | 1080 × 1080 | Classic look, photo dumps, product shots. |
| Landscape | 1.91:1 | 1080 × 566 | Wide photos. Takes up the least space in the feed, so use it rarely. |
Instagram displays posts at 1080px wide. You can upload larger files, but they're scaled down, so 1080px wide is all you need. Export as JPG or PNG. PNG keeps text sharper. JPG keeps photos small.
The first slide sets the size for the rest
Instagram crops every slide to the ratio of the first one. If slide one is square and slide two is 4:5, slide two gets its top and bottom cut off. Design all slides at the same size and you never have to think about this.
How the profile grid crops your carousel
Your profile grid shows each post as a 3:4 thumbnail (it changed from squares in early 2025). The first slide of your carousel is what appears there, cropped from the centre:
| Your slide | What the grid keeps | What gets trimmed |
|---|---|---|
| 1080 × 1350 (4:5) | the centre 1012 × 1350 | about 34px off the left and right |
| 1080 × 1440 (3:4) | the whole slide | nothing |
| 1080 × 1080 (1:1) | the centre 810 × 1080 | 135px off the left and right |
So for a 4:5 slide, keep headlines and faces at least 50px from the left and right edges. For square slides, leave about 150px.
The safe zone for text
Beyond the grid crop, Instagram lays its own interface over the post in a few places: the "1/8" counter in the top-right corner, the dots under the image, and tags when someone taps. A comfortable rule for a 1080 × 1350 slide:
- Keep text inside a 960 × 1200px box in the middle (60px margin on the sides, 75px top and bottom).
- Don't put anything important in the top-right corner.
- Use a text size of at least 40px for body text. Most people read carousels on a phone held at arm's length.
Seamless (panorama) carousel sizes
A seamless carousel is one wide image that continues from slide to slide. Multiply the slide width by the number of slides:
| Slides | Total canvas at 4:5 | Total canvas at 1:1 |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | 2160 × 1350 | 2160 × 1080 |
| 3 | 3240 × 1350 | 3240 × 1080 |
| 4 | 4320 × 1350 | 4320 × 1080 |
| 5 | 5400 × 1350 | 5400 × 1080 |
| 6 | 6480 × 1350 | 6480 × 1080 |
Design on the full canvas, then cut it into 1080px-wide pieces. The free seamless carousel maker does the cutting for you and tells you how much of your photo gets trimmed. There's more on design in how to make a seamless Instagram carousel.
How many slides can a carousel have?
Up to 20 photos or videos. Photos and videos can be mixed, and every item follows the first slide's ratio. See how to post more than 20 photos if you need more.
Does the same size work on LinkedIn?
Yes. LinkedIn "document" carousels are uploaded as a PDF, and 1080 × 1350 pages display well there too. You can convert an Instagram carousel to a LinkedIn PDF without redesigning it.
Skip the sizing entirely
Every carousel made in InstaCarousel is exported at 1080 × 1350px with text kept inside the safe zone, whether it starts from a YouTube video, a blog post or a template.
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