15 MB BMP sample

A BMP file of exactly 15,728,640 bytes. It is a valid Windows bitmap file, generated by this site. Compare its checksum and test it with the parser used by your application. Use it wherever you need a 15 MB sample, test or dummy BMP file.

sample-bmp-15mb.bmp

15 MB15,728,640 bytes

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Type: image/bmp
SHA-256: bb903099583a0f5dfbfae885262c88a76df564486b4e45fd7876c3aa7b1c429c
Delivery: Created in your browser from static generator assets (how it works).

What is in this file

An uncompressed 2660 × 1971 test card. 6 bytes of unused space between the header and the pixel array bring the file to the exact size.

Dimensions	2,660 × 1,971 px
Bit depth	24-bit RGB
Compression	None (BI_RGB)
Header	BITMAPINFOHEADER (40 bytes)
Row order	Bottom-up

First bytes of the file

The first 64 bytes of sample-bmp-15mb.bmp as a hex dump: offset, bytes, then the same bytes as text. The BMP signature is 42 4D.

00000000  42 4d 00 00 f0 00 00 00  00 00 3c 00 00 00 28 00 |BM........<...(.|
00000010  00 00 64 0a 00 00 b3 07  00 00 01 00 18 00 00 00 |..d.............|
00000020  00 00 c4 ff ef 00 13 0b  00 00 13 0b 00 00 00 00 |................|
00000030  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 20 20 20 20 |............    |

Preview

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Where 15 MB matters

A 15,728,640-byte file, 15 MB in the binary units that operating systems and upload limits use. It is useful wherever a form, an API gateway, a storage quota or a mail server is configured with a limit of about this size.

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Use this file for

Testing image resizing and memory use
Checking that services convert BMP to a web format
Testing decoders for legacy formats

Testing notes for BMP

Row padding and bottom-up order are the usual causes of skewed or upside-down images in hand-written decoders.
Some validators accept BMP by MIME type but have no decoder for it, which fails later in the pipeline.

BMP format reference

Technical details

File name	sample-bmp-15mb.bmp
Format	BMP (Windows bitmap)
Extension	.bmp
MIME type	image/bmp
Size	15,728,640 bytes (15 MB)
Kind	Binary
Signature	42 4D
SHA-256	bb903099583a0f5dfbfae885262c88a76df564486b4e45fd7876c3aa7b1c429c
Created	2026-10-23
Validation	See the listed size and SHA-256. Small downloads are checked in the browser; verify streamed downloads manually. A hash match does not prove parser compatibility.
Preview	Available on this page
Source	Generated in your browser by this site's generator; not copied from elsewhere
Licence	Free to use, modify and redistribute (terms)
Category	Images

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Verify your copy

This file is created in your browser, so it has no direct URL for curl or wget. The generator is designed to produce reproducible bytes. After saving, compare the checksum with the SHA-256 value above.

sha256sum sample-bmp-15mb.bmp     # Linux
shasum -a 256 sample-bmp-15mb.bmp # macOS

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Questions about this file

Is this file exactly 15 MB?: Yes. It is 15,728,640 bytes, which is 15 MB in the binary units that operating systems and server limits use (1 KB = 1,024 bytes).
What is inside the 15 MB BMP file?: An uncompressed 2660 × 1971 test card. 6 bytes of unused space between the header and the pixel array bring the file to the exact size.
What bit depth are the BMP samples?: 24-bit RGB with no compression and no colour table.

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