Convert JPG to WebP

Drop the JPG file into the box above, set the output format to WebP, and download the result: that is how to convert JPG to WebP on this page, at quality 80 by default, EXIF stripped automatically, no signup needed for files up to 25 MB and batches up to 30 images.

Converting a JPG to WebP is rarely a fix for something broken, it is usually a deliberate move to make a photo lighter without changing how it looks. Smaller image files load pages faster, cost less to serve at scale, and score better on the page speed checks search engines and hosting dashboards both watch. WebP reads in every major browser now, so a photo that has been a JPG for years can become a WebP today and nothing about the site breaks for anyone visiting it. If you just want to shrink JPG for web without touching the format, compressing the JPG directly is the other honest option. For how the format actually works and where AVIF fits next to it, see the guide to WebP and AVIF.

How to Convert JPG to WebP

Drag the JPG file onto the box above, or click to pick it, and set the output format to WebP before you download. There is nothing to install. This converter runs right in your browser. At quality 80 the re-encoded WebP looks the same as the source at normal zoom, and EXIF data is stripped the moment the file comes back, no setting to find.

Three defaults do the whole job: quality 80, WebP as the target, EXIF gone. Re-running the same file at a different quality or output format afterward never costs anything extra, and every converted file downloads straight back to your device.

Why Bother Converting a JPG for Your Website

Nobody's JPG breaks on its own the way a stray WebP file does. This conversion almost always starts with a reason, not a problem: a website with a slow-loading image gallery, a product catalog with hundreds of photos eating hosting bandwidth, or a blog post that scores badly on a page speed test because of one oversized hero image. JPG has been the safe default for photos for three decades, and safe is not the same as small. Swapping the same photo over to WebP, at the same visual quality, is close to a free win, the page looks identical and loads with fewer bytes.

One honest caveat: a JPG is already a lossy file, so converting it to WebP is a second lossy pass, not a restoration. At quality 80 the extra loss is not visible on an ordinary photo, but it is real, so if the original, uncompressed source is still around and a master file needs to stay pristine, convert from that original rather than repeatedly reconverting a JPG that has already been compressed once. If shrinking further than WebP still matters more than encode speed, this same tool outputs AVIF too, which typically beats JPEG by around 50 percent instead of WebP's 25 to 35 percent, at the cost of a slower encode.

What the Measured Demo Actually Shows

The tool re-encodes the pixel data at quality 80 by default, the same setting used across every conversion here, tuned to look identical to the source at normal zoom. This exact operation is the demo running on this site's own homepage: a 497 KB JPG goes in and a 214 KB WebP comes out, 283 KB gone, a 56.9 percent cut, with no visible change in the photo. That is not a rounded-up marketing number, it is the one file actually measured, and it lines up with the 25 to 35 percent saving WebP typically gets over a JPEG of the same visual quality for any photograph.

What a Whole Photo Gallery Saves

The single-file demo is real, but the number that actually matters for a website is the total across every photo in a gallery or product catalog, so here is that arithmetic laid out plainly instead of just the one file. Take the measured ratio from the homepage demo, a 497 KB JPG becoming a 214 KB WebP, a 56.9 percent reduction, and apply it as the average across a gallery of similarly sized photos. Fifty photos at 497 KB average out to just over 24 MB as JPG. The same fifty photos at 214 KB average land at roughly 10.5 MB as WebP, a difference of about 13.8 MB, the same 56.9 percent, carried across the whole set instead of one file.

That is not a guarantee every gallery hits exactly that number. A busier product photo with more fine detail keeps more bytes at quality 80 than a plain one, and a folder of screenshots or flat graphics behaves differently again. But the math scales the same way regardless of the starting size: whatever percentage the homepage demo shows on one file is roughly what a whole folder of similar photos gives back, because quality 80 is applied per file, not per batch, and each file in a batch converts on its own.

What It Costs, and Where the Limits Are

No account needed on this page: up to 25 MB per file, 30 files a batch, as many times as you come back. A free account raises that to 100 images a month with a usage dashboard. Converting a whole photo library or a build pipeline that touches images before deploy, or need the API? Pro is 12 dollars a month flat, 10,000 images, files up to 50 MB, batches of 100, no per-image fee at any volume. Re-converting a file you already uploaded, at a different quality or a different output format, never counts against the total twice.

Full tiers are on the pricing page, and developers can point their own conversion code at the same engine through the API reference.

Where Your File Goes Afterward

It gets deleted. Files dropped into the browser tool are removed within an hour, on a sweep that runs every 15 minutes, and the only way to reach one before that is a signed link that expires in 15 minutes on its own, never a public bucket. Every file also gets its EXIF data stripped automatically regardless of format, the hidden metadata a camera or app writes in, including GPS coordinates and a timestamp. Nothing uploaded here trains a model or gets looked at by anyone.