50 MB BMP sample

A BMP file of exactly 52,428,800 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 50 MB sample, test or dummy BMP file.

sample-bmp-50mb.bmp

50 MB52,428,800 bytes

Download 50 MB BMP

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Type: image/bmp
SHA-256: 9b0cfe2876687bad5ba163b4bb6b2273156f5f87e90627d779be8bcf0b2cf122
Delivery: Created in your browser from static generator assets (how it works).

What is in this file

An uncompressed 4866 × 3591 test card. 146 bytes of unused space between the header and the pixel array bring the file to the exact size.

Dimensions	4,866 × 3,591 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-50mb.bmp as a hex dump: offset, bytes, then the same bytes as text. The BMP signature is 42 4D.

00000000  42 4d 00 00 20 03 00 00  00 00 c8 00 00 00 28 00 |BM.. .........(.|
00000010  00 00 02 13 00 00 07 0e  00 00 01 00 18 00 00 00 |................|
00000020  00 00 38 ff 1f 03 13 0b  00 00 13 0b 00 00 00 00 |..8.............|
00000030  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................|

Preview

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Where 50 MB matters

A 52,428,800-byte file: exactly the size at which Git hosting on GitHub starts warning about large files, and about the limit for a zipped AWS Lambda package uploaded directly.

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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-50mb.bmp
Format	BMP (Windows bitmap)
Extension	.bmp
MIME type	image/bmp
Size	52,428,800 bytes (50 MB)
Kind	Binary
Signature	42 4D
SHA-256	9b0cfe2876687bad5ba163b4bb6b2273156f5f87e90627d779be8bcf0b2cf122
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-50mb.bmp     # Linux
shasum -a 256 sample-bmp-50mb.bmp # macOS

On Windows, run Get-FileHash sample-bmp-50mb.bmp -Algorithm SHA256 in PowerShell. For scripts and pipelines, save the file once and keep your own copy.

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Questions about this file

Is this file exactly 50 MB?: Yes. It is 52,428,800 bytes, which is 50 MB in the binary units that operating systems and server limits use (1 KB = 1,024 bytes).
What is inside the 50 MB BMP file?: An uncompressed 4866 × 3591 test card. 146 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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