Discord character limit
2,000 characters per message, or 4,000 with Nitro.
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Discord limits
- Character limit
- 2,000 characters
- With Discord Nitro
- 4,000 characters
- Counted as
- characters, emoji included
The Discord character limit is 2,000 characters per message on a free account. Paste a message above to see where it lands. Discord Nitro raises the limit to 4,000, and that applies to the person sending — anyone can read a long message, only a subscriber can write one.
Discord counts characters, and markdown syntax counts with them. Bold asterisks, backticks around a code block and the brackets of a masked link are all part of the 2,000, even though none of them appear in the message once it renders. A long formatted announcement is therefore closer to the ceiling than it looks.
Other limits sit nearby and are easy to hit first: an embed description holds 4,096 characters, everything across all embeds on one message totals 6,000, a channel topic is 1,024, a nickname is 32, and a message can carry ten embeds.
Past the limit, Discord refuses to send. The usual answers are to split the message at a heading, move the long part into a thread, or upload it as a file, which Discord renders inline for text.
Questions
What is the Discord character limit?
2,000 characters per message on a free account, and 4,000 with Discord Nitro.
Does Nitro increase the message character limit?
Yes, to 4,000 characters. The limit follows the sender, so a Nitro subscriber's long message is readable by everyone in the channel.
Does markdown count toward the Discord character limit?
Yes. Asterisks, backticks and link brackets are counted even though they are not visible in the rendered message.
What is the character limit for a Discord embed?
4,096 characters in a single embed description, and 6,000 across all embeds on one message.
What happens when a Discord message is too long?
Discord refuses to send it. Splitting the message, moving it into a thread or attaching it as a text file are the usual ways around it.