Pinterest pin size in 2026: dimensions and templates

Pinterest is the one platform where the size actually changes how far the thing travels. On most networks a wrong-sized image looks a little off and that's it. On Pinterest, the feed is a vertical grid, and a pin built at the right ratio takes up more of the screen as someone scrolls, which means more people stop on it. So the number here isn't a formatting detail. It's the difference between a pin that gets saved and one that scrolls past.

The number to remember is 1000 x 1500, a 2:3 ratio. That's the standard pin, and it's the one Pinterest recommends because it fills the grid cleanly without getting clipped. Almost everything on Pinterest is a variation on that one shape. There's a square option, a taller option, video, and the profile and board covers, but 2:3 is the spine of the whole thing. This is the Pinterest slice of the full social media image size guide, which does the same thing for every other platform.

The gotcha, and the reason people get this wrong, is that taller is not better past a point. Pinterest truncates anything taller than 2:3 in the feed and hides the bottom behind a "See more" tap. Go too tall and people only ever see the top of your design. So this is the pixels plus the spot where Pinterest quietly cuts you off.

Start with the 2:3 pin, because almost everything is

The standard pin is 1000 x 1500, a 2:3 ratio, and it's the one you'll use the most. It fills the width of a feed column and runs tall enough to grab attention on a phone without tripping the crop. If you only make one size of pin, make this one. You can upload bigger at the same ratio and it scales down fine, but 1000 x 1500 is the floor that still looks crisp on a retina screen.

A square 1000 x 1000 pin works too, it just takes up less vertical space, so it stands out a little less in the grid. I reach for square when the image is genuinely square (a product shot, a logo card) and not when I'm trying to get attention.

Then there's the long pin, 1000 x 2100, which is about as tall as you can practically go. This is where people get burned. A tall infographic looks great in your design tool and then Pinterest shows the top 2:3 in the feed and buries the rest behind a "See more". So if you build a long pin, the hook has to live in the top portion. The bottom only shows after someone taps in, which most people won't.

Video pins go full vertical

A standard video pin uses the same 1000 x 1500 canvas as a static pin and sits inline in the feed, so it follows the same 2:3 logic.

The vertical video pin is the other one to know. Pinterest folded the old Idea Pin and Story Pin formats into the single unified Pin, so there's no separate "idea pin" anymore. A vertical video you upload as a Pin runs 1080 x 1920, a 9:16 full-screen shape. The catch is the overlay. The title sits near the top and the UI controls sit near the bottom, so the top and bottom edges are not really yours. Keep your text and the important part of the image in the center third and it'll survive on every device.

Profile and board covers, the small stuff

Your profile photo displays around 165 x 165 as a circle, but you should upload it at 400 x 400 or larger square so Pinterest has a sharp version to scale from. Because it's masked to a circle, anything in the corners is gone, so center the face or the mark.

The profile cover is 1200 x 600, a 2:1 banner across the top of your profile. On mobile it scales down to roughly 600 x 300 and pulls in at the sides, and your profile photo overlaps the lower area, so keep the key art centered and off the edges.

Board covers are 600 x 600, square thumbnails on your profile's board grid. They render small, so a simple image with the subject centered reads better than something busy. Most people never set these, but they tidy up a profile when you do.

Ads, if you're running them

The ad sizes ride on top of the organic ones. A standard pin ad is 1000 x 1500, the same canvas as an organic pin, just promoted in the feed. Carousel ad cards are 1000 x 1000 or 1000 x 1500, two to five cards, and each card can point at its own landing page, which is handy for showing a few products in one ad. The file cap on carousel cards goes up to 32 MB per card. Collection and shopping ads follow the same 2:3 pin spec with a product catalog attached, so once you've got the standard pin right, the ad formats mostly come along for free.

File sizes and formats, quick version

Keep static pins under the 20 MB upload cap and you're fine, though under 5 MB loads faster, which matters on a feed full of images. Video pins can go up to 2 GB, which is far more than you'll ever need for a short vertical clip. PNG and JPG cover almost everything for static pins; PNG when you've got text or sharp graphics in the design, JPG when it's a photo and you want a smaller file. Video runs as MP4 or MOV. Pinterest also accepts WebP on the upload side, but I'd stick to PNG and JPG so you're not chasing a rendering quirk later.

Just grab the template

If you don't want to keep any of this in your head, hit the template pack button in the tool. You get a PNG for every Pinterest surface at the exact upload size, named so you know what each one is, with the 2:3 safe area and the feed-truncation line drawn right on the canvas. Drop one into Figma or Photoshop as a reference layer and design on top of it. The whole pack zips up in one click.

It's the same idea I use for the print dimensions tool, pointed at screens instead of paper. If you make assets for both, the print one handles DPI and bleed the way this one handles the feed crop and safe zones.

If you're pinning the same campaign across networks, I built matching pages for the two I touch most: Instagram image sizes and Facebook image sizes. Same copy-paste numbers, same template packs, just sized for where each one crops.

FAQ

The full set, with the safe zones and the downloadable templates, is in the tool at the top. Copy what you need, or take the whole pack.