5 MB GIF sample file

A GIF file of exactly 5,242,880 bytes. It is a valid Graphics Interchange Format file, generated for this site and checked with an independent parser.

sample-gif-5mb.gif

5 MB5,242,880 bytes

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Type: image/gif
SHA-256: aac201e7bb07d44d154171939e29742a463da099b089ce8769fdee4d8dbda8b0
Direct URL: https://sampletestfiles.com/downloads/gif/sample-gif-5mb.gif

What is in this file

A looping 480 × 360 animation of 113 LZW-compressed frames; the last frame repaints only the top of the canvas. 933 bytes of GIF comment extension bring the file to the exact size.

Dimensions	480 × 360 px
Frames	113
Frame delay	80 ms
Loop	Forever
Colours	256 (global colour table)
Version	GIF89a

First bytes of the file

The first 64 bytes of sample-gif-5mb.gif as a hex dump: offset, bytes, then the same bytes as text. The GIF signature is 47 49 46 38 39 61.

00000000  47 49 46 38 39 61 e0 01 68 01 f7 00 00 00 00 00  |GIF89a..h.......|
00000010  00 00 33 00 00 66 00 00 99 00 00 cc 00 00 ff 00  |..3..f..........|
00000020  33 00 00 33 33 00 33 66 00 33 99 00 33 cc 00 33  |3..33.3f.3..3..3|
00000030  ff 00 66 00 00 66 33 00 66 66 00 66 99 00 66 cc  |..f..f3.ff.f..f.|

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Where 5 MB matters

A 5,242,880-byte file: the size of a phone photo and the minimum part size for S3 multipart uploads. These are the default limits a file of this size is useful for testing:

System	Limit	Note
PHP	2 MB per uploaded file by default (upload_max_filesize)	A 5 MB upload fails on an untuned PHP installation.
Vercel Functions	4.5 MB request body	Larger uploads must go directly to object storage.
Amazon S3 multipart upload	5 MiB minimum part size	This file is exactly one minimum part.
AWS Lambda	6 MB synchronous invocation payload	5 MB of binary data exceeds it once base64-encoded.
Browser localStorage	About 5 MB per origin	Storing this file as text fills the quota.
Django	2.5 MB in memory by default	Larger uploads are streamed to a temporary file instead of held in memory.

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Use this file for

Simulating photo uploads from phones
Testing avatar and reaction uploads
Testing whether image pipelines preserve animation

Testing notes for GIF

Many resizing libraries silently keep only the first frame of an animated GIF.
Animated GIFs are large for what they show; a few seconds can reach several megabytes, so they hit size limits early.

GIF format reference

Technical details

File name	sample-gif-5mb.gif
Format	GIF (Graphics Interchange Format)
Extension	.gif
MIME type	image/gif
Size	5,242,880 bytes (5 MB)
Kind	Binary
Signature	47 49 46 38 39 61
SHA-256	aac201e7bb07d44d154171939e29742a463da099b089ce8769fdee4d8dbda8b0
Created	2026-10-10
Validation	Exact size, signature bytes and structure checked when the file was generated
Preview	Available on this page
Source	Generated for this site; not copied from elsewhere
Licence	Free to use, modify and redistribute (terms)
Category	Images

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Questions about this file

Is this file exactly 5 MB?: Yes. It is 5,242,880 bytes, which is 5 MB in the binary units that operating systems and server limits use (1 KB = 1,024 bytes).
What is inside the 5 MB GIF file?: A looping 480 × 360 animation of 113 LZW-compressed frames; the last frame repaints only the top of the canvas. 933 bytes of GIF comment extension bring the file to the exact size.
Are the sample GIFs animated?: Yes. They loop forever at about 12 frames per second. The frame count for each size is shown on its download page.

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