# Instagram sizes and safe zones

Our recommended sizes and safe zones for Instagram images, carousels, Reels, Stories and profile pictures.

- [Instagram image](https://guides.avola.dk/instagram/image/index.md): 3:4, 1080 x 1440 pixels. We recommend Instagram images in 3:4 at 1080 x 1440 pixels. That is the shape of the profile grid, so nothing is cropped there.
- [Instagram carousel](https://guides.avola.dk/instagram/carousel/index.md): 3:4, 1080 x 1440 pixels. An Instagram carousel holds up to 20 images or videos. Every slide takes the format of the first, so we make them all 3:4 at 1080 x 1440 pixels.
- [Instagram Reel](https://guides.avola.dk/instagram/reel/index.md): 9:16, 1080 x 1920 pixels. Instagram Reels are 1080 x 1920 pixels in 9:16. The app covers about 270 pixels at the top, 670 at the bottom and 65 on each side, which leaves a safe zone of about 950 x 980 pixels.
- [Instagram Story](https://guides.avola.dk/instagram/story/index.md): 9:16, 1080 x 1920 pixels. Instagram Stories are 1080 x 1920 pixels in 9:16. Keep text clear of the top 270 pixels and the bottom 384 pixels, where the progress bar, name and reply field sit.
- [Instagram profile picture](https://guides.avola.dk/instagram/profile-picture/index.md): 1:1, 1080 x 1080 pixels. Make your Instagram profile picture at least 1080 x 1080 pixels. Instagram crops it to a circle and shows it at about 110 pixels.

Page: https://guides.avola.dk/instagram/

Last updated 13 November 2026.