Pinterest Pin Size
Pinterest is the one major platform that rewards a tall image rather than a vertical video frame. 1000 × 1500 at 2:3 is the standard pin, and the height is the whole point: a taller pin takes more room in the feed. Push past the limit, however, and the feed starts cutting the bottom off instead.
Pinterest Pin size calculator
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The 2:3 ratio is locked in. Edit New Width and the pin height recalculates instantly; edit the height and the width follows. Sizes round to whole pixels, because platforms do not accept fractional ones.
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What size should a pin be?
1000 px wide by 1500 px tall reduces to 2:3. That is taller than Instagram's 4:5 feed post and much taller than a 9:16 Story relative to its width, because Pinterest is laid out as a masonry grid where vertical height translates almost directly into screen real estate.
The 1000 px width is a ceiling as much as a target. Pins are displayed in columns well under half that width, so a wider file is downscaled and recompressed for no gain. The 1500 px height is the useful part: it is the ratio that keeps the whole pin visible in the feed.
Pinterest formats and their sizes
Two of these rows are worth prioritising: the standard 2:3 pin and the 9:16 idea pin, since those are the shapes the platform actually promotes.
| Format | Pixels | Ratio | Notes |
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| Standard pin | 1000 × 1500 | 2:3 | Best-performing shape; the one to design for |
| Square pin | 1000 × 1000 | 1:1 | Shows less in the feed, occasionally used for products |
| Long pin | 1000 × 2100 | 1:2.1 | Maximum useful height; taller than this is clipped |
| Idea pin / video | 1080 × 1920 | 9:16 | Video pins use the vertical video frame instead |
| Board cover | 222 × 150 | about 3:2 | Cropped to the centre of whatever you choose |
| Profile picture | 165 × 165 | 1:1 | Displayed small; keep the subject centred |
How to build a 2:3 pin from a landscape photo
Pinterest is the platform most likely to receive a horizontally shot photograph, and 2:3 is the least forgiving of them. The arithmetic shows you how much of the source you are actually keeping.
- Work from the height if the source is landscape, because the height is the constraint: divide your available height by 3.
- Multiply that unit by 2 to get the pin width — 1500 ÷ 3 = 500, and 500 × 2 = 1000 px.
- If the result is narrower than 1000 px, the source is too small and the pin will be upscaled and soft.
- If the source is wide, crop into it rather than shrinking the whole frame: a 2:3 crop from a landscape photo keeps only a vertical slice.
- Add the headline in the upper half and export at 1000 × 1500.
Worked example
A 1920 × 1080 screenshot from a video is the worst case. To reach 2:3 you would need a width of 1080 ÷ 3 × 2 = 720 px, which is under the 1000 px reference and would be enlarged. The honest fix is either to shoot a fresh vertical image or to build the pin as a designed graphic at 1000 × 1500 rather than cropping a landscape frame into it.
The bottom of a tall pin is the part that disappears
In the grid, Pinterest draws each pin as a fixed-height card before it expands into the close-up view. A pin taller than the card is truncated rather than scaled down, so the bottom of an over-tall pin simply is not there until the viewer opens it.
The practical consequence is that a pin's headline belongs in the upper half. Text placed near the bottom of the canvas relies on the viewer choosing to open the pin, which is the opposite of what a headline is for.
- Put the hook in the top third, where it is legible even in the collapsed grid card.
- Repeat the brand or handle low down as a courtesy signature, not as a message anyone needs to read in the feed.
- Leave a margin of roughly 40 px inside every edge: the platform draws save and share controls over the corners.
- Bear in mind that text rendering varies between the desktop grid and the mobile app, so keep type sizes generous rather than precise.
Pin upload limits
Pinterest keeps pin images at a higher resolution than other platforms, since a pin is stored as a reference rather than only as a post.
| Item | Value |
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| Recommended size | 1000 × 1500 px |
| Aspect ratio | 2:3 |
| Maximum file size | 20 MB |
| Accepted formats | JPG, PNG |
| Height before the feed clips | About 2100 px (1:2.1) |
| Maximum video pin length | 15 minutes |
Pinterest Pin size FAQ
Why does my pin get cut off in the feed?
Because pins taller than roughly 1:2.1 exceed the card height the grid allows. Pinterest truncates the bottom instead of scaling the whole image down, so only the upper portion is visible until somebody opens the pin.
Is a square pin acceptable?
It publishes without complaint, but it occupies far less vertical space in a masonry feed than a 2:3 pin of the same width. Square pins are usually a sign that an Instagram asset was reposted unchanged.
Can I just use my 9:16 Story image as a pin?
You can, but 9:16 is narrower relative to its height than 2:3, so the pin will either be letterboxed or cropped at one end. A Story frame and a pin are genuinely different shapes.
Does the pin image still matter after the link is clicked?
Yes. Pinterest stores the pin as a visual bookmark, and it keeps resurfacing in search and in Other people's feeds long after the initial share, so the image keeps earning impressions on its own.