50 KB JPG sample file

A JPG file of exactly 51,200 bytes. It is a valid JPEG image file, generated for this site and checked with an independent parser.

sample-jpg-50kb.jpg

50 KB51,200 bytes

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Type: image/jpeg
SHA-256: fc2f0bf8c62bf9d79df37007a497d2e7168f70ba4b12327418e3687bf91ce2c6
Direct URL: https://sampletestfiles.com/downloads/jpg/sample-jpg-50kb.jpg

What is in this file

A 387 × 289 test card with fine grain, encoded as a baseline JPEG at quality 90. 149 bytes of JPEG comment (COM) segment bring the file to the exact size.

Dimensions	387 × 289 px
Encoding	Baseline DCT, Huffman
Chroma subsampling	4:4:4
Quality	90
Metadata	JFIF header and a comment, no EXIF
Progressive	No

First bytes of the file

The first 64 bytes of sample-jpg-50kb.jpg as a hex dump: offset, bytes, then the same bytes as text. The JPG signature is FF D8 FF.

00000000  ff d8 ff e0 00 10 4a 46 49 46 00 01 01 00 00 01  |......JFIF......|
00000010  00 01 00 00 ff fe 00 93 53 61 6d 70 6c 65 54 65  |........SampleTe|
00000020  73 74 46 69 6c 65 73 20 73 61 6d 70 6c 65 20 69  |stFiles sample i|
00000030  6d 61 67 65 2e 20 41 6c 69 67 6e 6d 65 6e 74 20  |mage. Alignment |

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Where 50 KB matters

A 51,200-byte file, half of the default body limit in several web frameworks. These are the default limits a file of this size is useful for testing:

System	Limit	Note
Express body parsers	100 KB by default	50 KB is accepted; 500 KB is rejected with 413 unless the limit is raised.
Base64 encoding	Adds 33 percent	50 KB becomes about 67 KB when embedded in JSON.

All 50 KB sample files

Use this file for

Testing document previews
Testing image upload, resize and thumbnail pipelines
Checking maximum file-size and dimension rules

Testing notes for JPG

Re-saving a JPEG loses quality each time, so pipelines should resize from the original.
Photos from phones carry EXIF data including location; the samples here contain none.

JPG format reference

Technical details

File name	sample-jpg-50kb.jpg
Format	JPG (JPEG image)
Extension	.jpg
MIME type	image/jpeg
Size	51,200 bytes (50 KB)
Kind	Binary
Signature	FF D8 FF
SHA-256	fc2f0bf8c62bf9d79df37007a497d2e7168f70ba4b12327418e3687bf91ce2c6
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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Fetch the file with curl, then compare its checksum with the SHA-256 value above.

curl -o sample-jpg-50kb.jpg 'https://sampletestfiles.com/downloads/jpg/sample-jpg-50kb.jpg'
sha256sum sample-jpg-50kb.jpg     # Linux
shasum -a 256 sample-jpg-50kb.jpg # macOS

On Windows, run Get-FileHash sample-jpg-50kb.jpg -Algorithm SHA256 in PowerShell. A matching value proves that the download is complete and unaltered.

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Questions about this file

Is this file exactly 50 KB?: Yes. It is 51,200 bytes, which is 50 KB in the binary units that operating systems and server limits use (1 KB = 1,024 bytes).
What is inside the 50 KB JPG file?: A 387 × 289 test card with fine grain, encoded as a baseline JPEG at quality 90. 149 bytes of JPEG comment (COM) segment bring the file to the exact size.
What do the sample JPGs show?: A test card with colour bars, a grey ramp, a checkerboard and a gradient, with light grain so the file compresses like a photograph.

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