Compress image to 1mb
Easily compress image to 1mb—great for slides, email, and web pages that need faster loads. Works with JPGs or other formats. For bulk workflows, Cloudinary can auto-optimize thousands of images for you.
Easily compress image to 1mb—great for slides, email, and web pages that need faster loads. Works with JPGs or other formats. For bulk workflows, Cloudinary can auto-optimize thousands of images for you.
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Images are always delivered in the best quality and format for each user’s device, browser, and connection. Whether it’s JPG, PNG, HEIC, or another format, our system automatically selects the most efficient option for peak performance.
Easily batch compress your JPG images to 50KB, or integrate our free API to automatically optimize all your JPGs with no extra effort!
Set up preset configurations to save time and streamline your process. Files are automatically compressed, transformed, and ready for delivery immediately after upload.
Expand your image workflow with support for next-gen formats like WebP, JXL, and AVIF. These advanced options deliver the perfect balance of quality and efficiency for all your visual assets.
Quickly compress image to 1MB for JPGs or other formats; for bulk needs, Cloudinary can auto-optimize thousands of files across your library.
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Once the compression is complete, download your optimized JPG images with less than 50KB
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Bring images to 1MB or below with Cloudinary’s Image to 1MB tool. With adaptive quality, progressive rendering, and intelligent format selection, you’ll keep clarity and improve performance.
Absolutely. Cloudinary’s API lets you automate the Image to 1MB path. Push assets through the API using q_auto:low, f_auto, fl_lossy to arrive near 1MB. You can also apply hard caps and chained rules in your upload workflow so everything stays 1MB or less.
To target 1MB, we rely on perceptual, visually lossless optimization that adjusts compression to image content. Quality differences are minimal and generally undetectable at normal viewing sizes, since edges, textures, and key details are preserved while redundant data is removed. Depending on the source, lossless output may or may not stay under 1MB; if you need bit-perfect fidelity, choose PNG or lossless AVIF/WebP and allow for larger results. For most photographs and marketing imagery, the perceptual approach provides a lighter file with virtually no visible change. If you see artifacts, increase quality a little or reduce dimensions slightly to remain near 1MB without affecting appearance.
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