Compress a GIF Until Discord Will Take It

Check your own account, because Discord's own pages disagree. Its File Attachments FAQ says the limit for a free account went to 20 MB in August 2026, while its Account Caps page still lists 10 MB, and the FAQ adds that Discord is experimenting with upload limits and that some users can send larger files. So this page does not print one number as the truth: it opens at 10 MB, which passes either way, and offers 20 MB next to it.

Yes, and it is the only thing that does. Discord checks the size of the file you hand it, before any compression of its own, which its FAQ says is now true on mobile as well as desktop. So the number that matters is the one on your file, and that is what this page changes.

It starts with a lossless re-pack, which costs nothing in quality, and only then lowers the quality, cuts the palette and, last of all, the width, stopping at the first setting that fits. It never goes below 240 px wide.

Yes. Every frame, its timing and the loop setting are kept, so the GIF plays as before. Only how the pixels are stored changes, and the width only if the earlier steps were not enough.

Yes, free with no account, and nothing is uploaded to us. gifsicle is compiled to WebAssembly and runs in your browser, so the GIFs never leave your device until you send them to Discord yourself.

You are told, rather than handed a file that will be rejected. You get the smallest version it managed and a note that it is still over. A long or wide animation is usually the reason: cut a few seconds off it, or allow a larger size.

There's no fixed limit. Batches of several hundred are common and run in parallel across your CPU cores, so even large batches finish in seconds. It's completely free with no signup.