Fiverr character limits for every field

The limits Fiverr actually publishes

These numbers appear in Fiverr's own help pages and current documentation, so they are safe to plan a draft around. Where a limit is a count rather than a length, it is listed as a count.

Print the ones you hit daily: description length, tag slots, gallery slots, and offer boundaries. The rest are occasional checks, but an occasional check saved before a deadline still counts.

The fields where Fiverr publishes no number

Three of the most asked-about fields have no published limit: the gig title, the professional title or tagline, and the profile About section. Fiverr does not publish a character count for any of them. Community figures for these fields circulate widely and stay unverified, including the 80-character title figure repeated in third-party guides.

The authority in those fields is the field itself. Fiverr shows a character counter beside the input as you type, and the input stops accepting text at its cap. That is the only measurement you should plan a draft against, because it reflects the live rule rather than a screenshot from an older version of the site.

Package names and package descriptions sit in the same category: buyers see them, sellers quote limits for them, and no help page states a number. Draft inside the counter, not against a remembered figure.

Why 1,200 characters rarely means 1,200 visible characters

Fiverr documents an exception that catches sellers who draft with emoji and symbols: emoji and extended characters count as two toward the limit, while characters in the basic multilingual plane count as one. The ceiling stays at 1,200 counted characters, so the visible text you get back is shorter than the count you started with.

A single extended character therefore counts twice, and one source of the rule states that 1,200 characters is the maximum number of visible characters a buyer will see. If your description contains a line of emoji, the text after them can disappear while the counter still looks reasonable to you.

Worked example: a description built with six emoji in the opening lines burns twelve counted characters before a buyer reads a word, and special characters elsewhere may be filtered out entirely or render as small squares. The help page states plainly that if you have reached 1,200 characters, your content is complete.

Image and video numbers that block a save

Image sizes are published precisely: 1280 by 769 pixels recommended, 712 by 430 pixels minimum, 4000 by 2416 pixels maximum, in JPG, PNG, or GIF format up to 50 MB. Fiverr also advises keeping text on the image to ten words or fewer so it stays readable at card size.

Video numbers are where published sources disagree. One listing example states gig videos are limited to 75 seconds, while general guidance for sellers describes videos of 20 to 60 seconds. Both figures come from Fiverr material, so treat the upload screen as the deciding check rather than either sentence.

Audio runs up to three minutes and thirty seconds under 10 MB for music and voice, and attached documents run up to 5 GB. Those two are unambiguous and worth knowing before you record a long intro.

The limits that shape how you quote

Offer structure has hard edges: a custom offer runs from $5 to $20,000 and from one to 90 days, carries zero to 20 revisions or unlimited, and can be split into at most five milestones. Packages stop at three, which is why every pricing ladder you read about is built inside that number.

Worked example: a $600 project quoted as a single custom offer sits inside the price range but stretches the 90-day comfort zone if the work runs long. Splitting it into four milestones — discovery, first draft, revision round, delivery — keeps each window short and gives the buyer a release point at every stage, which is the purpose the five-milestone cap exists for.

Smaller limits do quiet damage too. A buyer who wants to leave a one-word review hits the ten-character minimum, a saved reply longer than 100 characters needs trimming, and a coupon note over 250 characters will not fit. None of these block an order; all of them waste an edit.

The mistake: counting by eye

The common failure is manual counting. Sellers copy a draft into a document, check the number in the status bar, and paste only to discover the field disagrees because of emoji, extended characters, or a symbol the field rejects. The document counted characters; Fiverr counted them differently.

The second failure is deleting good copy to fit a remembered limit. If you cut a paragraph because a blog said the description cap was lower than it is, you removed proof for nothing. Fiverr publishes 1,200 characters for the description, and the description checker reviews what to keep inside it.

Paste first, read the counter beside the field, and trim only what the counter rejects. The title field gets the same treatment through the title checker, and both are faster than trusting a number you half-remember from a guide written years ago.

Where Seller OS helps

Seller OS drafts gig copy with these published limits in view, so a description written in the panel is already aimed at the 1,200-character ceiling instead of being cut down after a paste. The character counter tool works the same way for text you wrote somewhere else, and the checker pages review a draft against the field it will live in.

It cannot read the counter inside Fiverr's editor, so the final check always happens on that screen. A person performs every final Save, Continue, or Publish action, and nothing is sent or published automatically.

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