All Pinterest pin dimensions
Verified on 2026-08-10 against Pinterest Business — creative best practices . Platforms revise these regularly — if another page does not say when it last checked, treat its numbers with suspicion.
| Use | Size | Ratio | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Standard pin (2:3) | 1000×1500 | 2:3 | the ratio Pinterest recommends and displays fully |
| Square pin (1:1) | 1000×1000 | 1:1 | — |
| Long pin (1:2.1) | 1000×2100 | 10:21 | the tallest that is not truncated |
| Idea pin / Story (9:16) | 1080×1920 | 9:16 | — |
| Profile picture | 165×165 | 1:1 | displayed as a circle |
Platform limits
| Constraint | Value |
|---|---|
| File size limit | 20 MB for pins |
| Accepted formats | JPG and PNG |
| Recommended ratio | 2:3 — taller pins are truncated in the feed |
| Minimum width | 600 px, though 1000 is the practical floor |
Why these numbers
Pinterest is the one major platform where aspect ratio is not a design preference but a distribution factor, and that makes it worth understanding properly.
The feed is a masonry grid: pins of different heights sit side by side in columns, and a taller pin simply occupies more vertical space than its neighbours. That is a real advantage — more of the screen, longer in view as someone scrolls. But Pinterest truncates pins beyond a certain height rather than letting them run indefinitely, and a truncated pin looks broken.
2:3 — 1000 × 1500 — is the ratio that gets the benefit without the risk. It is meaningfully taller than square, so it holds attention longer, and it is well within what is displayed in full. Pinterest's own guidance names it, and essentially every pin that performs well uses it.
Longer pins up to roughly 1:2.1 are still shown whole and are used for step-by-step graphics and recipes, where the extra height carries actual content. Beyond that the pin is cut off in the feed, and the part people decide to click on is the part they cannot see.
Square pins are not wrong, they simply take less space. Landscape pins are a mistake on this platform specifically — in a vertical masonry feed they occupy the least screen area of any option.
1000 pixels wide is the practical floor for sharpness on modern displays. Pinterest accepts less, but the feed renders pins at a few hundred pixels on a phone with high pixel density, and a 600-pixel source looks soft. Going far above 1000 gains nothing, since the platform re-encodes and generates its own sizes.
Verified on the date shown. Pinterest revises this guidance periodically, and the 2:3 recommendation has itself changed over the years.
Frequently asked questions
What size should a Pinterest pin be?
1000 × 1500 pixels, a 2:3 ratio. That is what Pinterest recommends and displays in full. Taller pins take more space in the masonry feed but risk being truncated beyond roughly 1:2.1, and a cut-off pin loses exactly the part that would have prompted a click.
Do taller pins really perform better?
Up to a point. The feed is a masonry grid, so a taller pin occupies more vertical space and stays in view longer as someone scrolls. That advantage disappears the moment the pin is truncated, which is why 2:3 rather than the tallest possible ratio is the sensible target.
Can I use landscape images?
You can, and they will be the least visible option. In a vertical masonry feed a wide, short pin occupies the smallest amount of screen area of any shape. If your source image is landscape, consider building a vertical composition around it rather than pinning it as-is.
Why does 1000 pixels wide matter if pins display smaller?
Because phones have high pixel density: a pin shown at 300 CSS pixels may be rendered at 900 device pixels. A 600-pixel source looks visibly soft there. Above 1000 there is little gain, since Pinterest re-encodes and generates its own display sizes anyway.
JPG or PNG for pins?
JPG for photographic pins. PNG is genuinely better for the text-heavy graphic pins that are common on Pinterest — large headlines over flat colour — because JPEG compression puts halos around sharp text edges. Watch the file size either way; the limit is 20 MB.