What is the file size limit on Saudi government and university portals?

What is the file size limit on Saudi portals?

There is no single number that applies everywhere. The figure that recurs most across Saudi platforms and university portals is 2 MB per attachment, with some bodies allowing 3 MB or 4 MB. The table below is drawn from published pages and guides, and where the upload screen in front of you states a different number, that one governs.

The published numbers, and where they were published

This is what we found published as of 4 September 2026. Note that Najiz appears with two different figures in public sources, 2 MB in most of them and 10 MB in others, which is precisely why the rule that follows matters: read the number on the screen before you start.

Caps change, and the message printed on the upload screen outranks every number in this table.

Why there is no number here for Absher or Qiwa

Because we could not find one published that is safe to cite. Absher's support account confirms to users that there is a limit on both attachment size and attachment count, but the figure itself appears only inside the service after sign-in, and Qiwa publishes no general cap across its attachments. We could have repeated a number from a forum thread and looked more useful, but a wrong number makes you compress harder than you needed to and turn a readable ID copy into a blurry one for nothing. The honest rule instead: open the upload screen and read the small line under the choose-file button, which states the accepted formats and the maximum size together. If it says nothing at all, aim for 2 MB, the figure that passes on most Saudi portals.

The error message is itself the answer

What stops most people is not the number but the sentence: the file is too large, you have exceeded the maximum file size, the file must be under 2 MB. Every one of those carries the exact cap you need, which is why reading it beats guessing. If the sentence says 500 KB you are facing a different problem from 2 MB, and the way there is usually deleting pages or splitting the file rather than compressing harder. And if the sentence lists accepted formats such as pdf and jpg, check your file is one of them first, because some rejections are about the format and not the size at all.

How to get under the cap without wrecking the document

Start with the light level in the compress tool. It re-saves the file without redrawing the pages, so Arabic text stays sharp, selectable and searchable, which matters for Jadarat in particular because a CV has to stay a text PDF rather than an image. Then read the before and after sizes the result shows you: if you are under the cap, you are done. If not, move to medium, then strong. Both redraw every page as a compressed image, which shrinks scans dramatically at the cost of text that can no longer be selected, copied or searched. Do not jump to strong on the first attempt, and open the output to confirm the name, the ID number and the stamp dates are still readable before you upload it.

When compression will not do it: delete pages or split the file

Compression is not an operation that always succeeds. A small text-based file can come back larger than it went in if you put it through medium or strong, because light text became heavy images, and the tool says so plainly and tells you to keep the original. At that point the other route pays better: delete the pages the body did not ask for with the organize tool, because every page removed saves more than any compression level. And when the document has to stay long while the per-attachment cap is tight, split it with the split tool and upload it as separate labelled parts, which is what the case-filing guides themselves recommend when documents are numerous.

Your file does not leave your device at any of these steps

Every Khallas tool runs inside the browser: the code comes down to your device, the file stays with you, and there is no upload step, no account and no sign-in. That stops being a marketing detail the moment the attachment is an ID copy, a contract or a bank statement, because the usual arrangement elsewhere is that your file travels to a remote server and comes back compressed. You can check it yourself in a few seconds: open the page, cut your network, then compress a file. It still works, because the work is happening in your own browser. Khallas is also completely free, and every tool on it is available with no subscription.