Facebook Post Character Limit Checker
63,206 characters allowed, but only ~477 characters show before "See more"
Verified 2026-07-19 against Meta's official Facebook Help Center. Platforms change these limits without notice — this page is checked on an annual-refresh cadence; if you spot a change, let us know via /contact/.
Facebook's nominal post character limit — 63,206 characters — is so large that almost nobody writes a post anywhere near it; it's less a practical writing constraint and more a technical database-field ceiling. The number that actually governs how a Facebook post reads in the feed is a much smaller, separate figure: roughly 477 characters are shown before the rest of the post is collapsed behind a 'See more' link.
This gap between the nominal and practical limits is more extreme on Facebook than on any of the other platforms covered on this site — Instagram's ~125-character preview is a meaningful fraction of its 2,200-character cap, but Facebook's ~477-character preview is under 1% of its 63,206-character maximum, which is exactly why treating Facebook's 'character limit' as a single number is misleading for anyone actually planning post copy.
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The details
The ~477-character truncation point is itself an approximation rather than a documented exact figure from Meta — it's derived from consistent independent observation and testing by social media marketers over time rather than an official published number, and it can vary somewhat by whether the post includes a photo, video, or link preview alongside the text, and by whether it's viewed on desktop or mobile.
Posts with an attached link, photo, or video tend to show a shorter amount of visible caption text before truncation than a text-only post does, since the attached media itself takes up feed space — a genuine practical reason photo captions on Facebook often get truncated sooner than a similarly-worded plain text status update.
As with Instagram and YouTube, the practical writing convention for Facebook posts is to front-load the single most important sentence or call-to-action within roughly the first 400 characters, treating everything past that point as bonus content for the reader who taps 'See more' — engagement data that social media managers have shared publicly over the years consistently shows a meaningful drop-off in how many readers tap through past the truncation point.
A mistake worth naming: because Facebook's 63,206-character ceiling is so rarely relevant in practice, some page managers mistakenly assume a very long post (say, a full press release pasted directly into a status update) will be read the same way a short post is — in reality, only the first fraction of that pasted text is ever seen without a deliberate tap, so a long-form post needs its own front-loaded structure, not just a copy-pasted document with the same structure it had in its original format.
Facebook Groups posts and Facebook Page posts share the same underlying 63,206-character field limit and a broadly similar 'See more' truncation behavior, though the exact truncation point can vary slightly between the two contexts and between the main feed, a Group's dedicated feed, and a single-post permalink view — treat the ~477-character figure as a general planning estimate across all of these contexts rather than an identical number in every single one.
Reference table
| Nominal post character limit | 63,206 characters |
| Visible before "See more" (approximate) | ~477 characters (unofficial, observed figure) |
| Page name limit | 75 characters |
| Groups vs. Pages truncation behavior | Broadly similar, with some observed variation by context |
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FAQ
- Will Facebook actually let me post 63,206 characters?
- Technically yes — that's the field's documented maximum — but in practice almost no post benefits from approaching it, since only roughly the first ~477 characters display before a 'See more' link collapses the rest. The 63,206 figure is closer to a technical database-field ceiling than a meaningful writing target.
- Is the ~477-character truncation point an official Meta figure?
- No — unlike Instagram's caption limit or X's character count, Facebook hasn't published an exact official truncation figure. The ~477 number comes from consistent independent testing and observation by marketers over time, and it can shift somewhat depending on whether the post includes media and whether it's viewed on mobile or desktop.
- Does a photo or video attachment change how much caption text shows before truncation?
- Yes, generally — posts with an attached photo, video, or link preview tend to show a shorter stretch of visible caption text before truncating than a plain text-only status update, since the attached media itself takes up feed real estate that would otherwise show more caption text.
- Does a Facebook Group post get truncated the same way as a Page post?
- Broadly yes — both draw on the same underlying 63,206-character field and a similar 'See more' truncation behavior, though the exact visible-character figure has been observed to vary somewhat between a Group's feed, a Page's feed, and an individual post's permalink view. Treat the ~477-character estimate as a reasonable planning figure across all three rather than an identical constant.