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MMS file types, size and character limits

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MMS file types, size and character limits - AWS End User Messaging SMS

A single MMS media file can be up to 2 MB for all image types (gif, jpeg, png) and 600 KB in size for all audio and video media file types. The text message body of an MMS can contain 1600 from any character set. Unlike SMS, MMS message are not broken into multiple parts when they are sent. If you are sending large text message you may get better throughput sending an MMS message since they are not broken into multiple parts.

File type MIME types Maximum file size
Graphics Interchange Format

image/gif

2 MB
Joint Photographic Experts Group

image/jpeg

2 MB
Portable Network Graphics

image/png

2 MB
Tag image file format

image/tiff

600 KB
Third generation partnership project

audio/3gpp, video/3gpp

600 KB
Third generation partnership project 2

audio/3gpp2, video/3gpp2

600 KB
Adaptive Multi-Rate

audio/amr

600 KB
MPEG-4

audio/mp4, video/mp4

600 KB
Moving picture experts group

audio/mpeg

Only MP3 files are supported for audio/mpeg

600 KB
Ogg

audio/ogg

600 KB
QuickTime

video/quicktime

600 KB
WebM

video/webm

600 KB
iCalendar

text/calendar

600 KB
vCard

text/vcard, text/x-vcard

600 KB
Portable Document Format

application/pdf

600 KB
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