Instagram Bio Character Limit: 150, Links Not Included

The Instagram bio character limit is 150 characters, and Instagram states it in its own Help Centre (read 26 August 2026). Links do not count against it: you can add up to five in a separate Links field. Threads publishes no bio limit at all. Below, each number is marked documented or unstated, with its source and the date we read it.

What is the Instagram bio character limit?

150 characters. Instagram's Help Centre article on editing your bio says: "You can write a bio of up to 150 characters on your Instagram profile." (help.instagram.com/728994388226960, read in a browser on 26 August 2026). You edit it under Profile, then Edit profile, then the text box next to Bio, then Submit.

Your links are not part of that 150. Instagram documents a separate field for them: "You can add up to five websites to your Instagram profile." The first link shows on the profile and the rest sit behind a menu, which is why the link in bio on Instagram still matters even with five slots.

One thing Instagram does not document is how line breaks behave. The common workaround, drafting the bio in a notes app and pasting it in so the breaks hold, is practitioner advice, not an Instagram rule.

Which bio limits do the platforms actually document?

Most pages that rank for this query print one number per platform with no source. The table below separates what a platform states in its own help pages from what is only repeated elsewhere. A cell reads "unstated" when we searched the platform's help pages and found no number.

X (formerly Twitter), YouTube, Facebook and LinkedIn are not in the table yet. We add a platform only after reading its limit at the platform's own help centre, so a number you see elsewhere for those four has not been checked here.

Does Threads have a bio character limit?

Meta does not publish one. We searched the Help Centre for Threads bio characters on 25 September 2026 and no article states a number. The 150 you see quoted for Threads is Instagram's documented limit, and the "250" and "17" figures in search results carry no source.

Write your Threads bio to 150 characters anyway. Threads can import your Instagram bio and links when you create the profile, and after that the two are edited separately, so a bio that fits Instagram fits both. Threads does document five bio links ("Add up to five links to your bio", Meta Newsroom, 15 May 2025); the Threads bio link guide covers how to use them.

How many characters is a TikTok bio?

We do not print a TikTok bio number on this page. The TikTok Help Centre article we read, "Adding a website link to your profile" (re-read 22 October 2026), covers the link, not bio length, and we have not yet read a TikTok page that states a bio limit.

What TikTok does document is who gets a clickable link: "You can add a link to a website on your TikTok profile if you have at least 1,000 followers, or if you have a Verified Business Account." If the link is missing even though you qualify, the TikTok link in bio not showing fixes walk through the checks. For the bio text itself, the edit box in the app stops you at its cap, so draft longer and trim, and borrow lines from these TikTok bio ideas.

Does the Instagram name field count toward the 150?

No. The name is its own field, separate from the bio, so its characters do not come out of your 150. Instagram does not document a limit for the name field. The "30 characters" figure repeated across the web does not appear in the Help Centre, so we do not state it as Instagram's rule.

How much text fits in 150 characters?

About 20 to 25 words of plain English. This example bio is exactly 150 characters, spaces and punctuation included, with no emoji:

Food photographer in Lisbon. Restaurant menus, cookbook covers and brand shoots. Booking March to June 2027. Prices, portfolio and contact form below.

That is 22 words in four short sentences: who, what, when and where to go next. Paste your own draft into the character counter before you open the app; trimming there is faster than watching the edit box refuse a save. For lines that work inside the limit, see these Instagram bio ideas.

How do you fit more than 150 characters?

You don't, in the bio. The space you get beyond 150 characters is the link field. Point your first link at one page that holds the long version: the full services list, prices, booking form and everything else the bio had to cut. What belongs on that page is covered in what to put on a link in bio.

That is the job Linkero, a link-in-bio page builder, was made for (we make it). A Text block holds the paragraph your bio could not, and the rest of the page carries the links that would not fit in five slots. Linkero is free to try: build and preview your page before you pick a plan.

How we checked these numbers

Each row comes from the platform's own help pages or newsroom, read in a browser, with the date in the table. A server-side fetch is not enough for these sites: on 5 November 2026 our request to Instagram's bio article returned HTTP 400 with "Sorry, something went wrong", and TikTok's article returned HTTP 200 with no article heading in the served HTML, because both render their content in the browser. Neither result means the article is gone. For how other profiles use their bio space, see these social media profile examples.

FAQ

How much text is 250 characters?

At the density of the example above (22 words in 150 characters), 250 characters is roughly 35 to 40 words, or two to three short sentences. That is more than an Instagram bio holds, so cut it to 150 or move the rest to your linked page.

How many links can you add to an Instagram bio?

Up to five. Instagram documents it as "You can add up to five websites to your Instagram profile." They sit in a separate Links field and do not use any of the 150 bio characters.

Do Instagram and Threads bios stay in sync?

No. Threads can import your Instagram bio and links when you first create the profile. After that, each app keeps its own bio and links, and you edit them separately.

Who can add a website link on TikTok?

General TikTok accounts with at least 1,000 followers, and Verified Business Accounts, per TikTok's "Adding a website link to your profile" article (re-read 22 October 2026). Below 1,000 followers on a general account, the link option is not available.

Your next step

Copy your current bio into the character counter and cut it to 150. Every line you remove goes onto the page behind your first link, not into the bin. The Instagram bio character limit then stops being a squeeze: the bio says who you are, and the page carries the rest.