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Discord Says "Your Files Are Too Powerful" — Here's the Fix
Discord limits free uploads to 10 MB. Learn how to compress video for Discord without losing quality. Works with any video format.
Why is my video too big for Discord?
A 15-second clip from your iPhone is already 30–50 MB. Discord free accounts cap uploads at 10 MB. Your options used to be: pay for Nitro, use a sketchy web compressor, or just... not share the clip. Squash gives you a better option.
What are the requirements?
File size limit (free)10 MB
File size limit (Nitro Basic)50 MB
File size limit (Nitro)500 MB
Supported formatMP4 (H.264)
Max resolutionNo hard limit
How do I fix this?
Drop your video into Squash and select the Discord destination. Squash automatically compresses to under 10 MB using H.264 with aggressive but quality-aware encoding. Your video stays on your computer — nothing uploaded to a third party.
Discord compression is free in Squash — no purchase required.
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