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Bitrate & Data Size Converter

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Updated Aug 24, 2026

Convert between bits and bytes in one step. Enter a value in any unit and get a plain-English headline at the top (e.g. "10 Mbit/s — 1.25 MB/s") followed by three tables: decimal bits (bit/kbit/Mbit/Gbit/Tbit), decimal bytes (B/kB/MB/GB/TB), and binary bytes (KiB/MiB/GiB/TiB).

Switch between throughput mode (per-second rates) and data-size mode. In throughput mode it also shows how much data the link moves per minute, hour, day, and 30 days — handy for sizing cellular data plans. Includes presets for common link speeds and a short reference explaining why Mbit, MB, and MiB never match. Runs entirely in the browser.

Human readable

10 Mbit/s

10 megabits per second

= 1.25 MB/s

megabytes per second

Bits — decimal (×1000)

How ISPs, carriers, and NIC speeds are quoted

10,000,000bit/s
10,000kbit/s
10Mbit/s
0.01Gbit/s
1.000e-5Tbit/s

Bytes — decimal (×1000)

How drive vendors and most APIs report size

1,250,000B/s
1,250kB/s
1.25MB/s
0.00125GB/s
1.250e-6TB/s

Bytes — binary (×1024)

How Windows, Linux, and macOS report size

1,220.7KiB/s
1.192MiB/s
0.001164GiB/s
1.137e-6TiB/s

Data transferred at this rate

Line-rate math only — real throughput is lower after protocol overhead.

Per minute

75 MB

71.526 MiB

Per hour

4.5 GB

4.191 GiB

Per day

108 GB

100.583 GiB

Per 30 days

3.24 TB

2.947 TiB

Why the numbers differ

  • 1 byte = 8 bits — a 100 Mbit/s link tops out at 12.5 MB/s, which is why downloads look 8× slower than the advertised speed.
  • Mbit vs MB — a lowercase “b” means bits, an uppercase “B” means bytes. Carriers quote bits; file managers show bytes.
  • MB vs MiB — MB is 1,000,000 bytes (SI), MiB is 1,048,576 bytes (IEC). Windows labels a value “MB” while actually computing MiB, so the same file reads about 5% smaller there than on a drive label.