Bitrate Converter
Enter a bitrate in any unit — bps, kbps, Mbps, or Gbps — and the converter shows the equivalent value in all four units simultaneously, each with a copy button so you can paste straight into an encoder, FFmpeg flag, or platform spec.
bps
8,000,000
kbps
8,000
Mbps
8.000
Gbps
0.0080
Decimal (SI) convention used by encoders, ISPs, and broadcast standards: 1 kbps = 1,000 bps, 1 Mbps = 1,000 kbps, 1 Gbps = 1,000 Mbps. Bytes-per-second is 1/8 of any of these.
How to use this tool
- 01
Enter your bitrate
Any value, any unit.
- 02
Pick the input unit
bps, kbps, Mbps, or Gbps.
- 03
Read the converted values
All four units update instantly.
Why this matters
Hardware vendors quote Gbps, FFmpeg flags expect bps, OBS and YouTube documentation use kbps and Mbps, and ISP marketing is always in Mbps — every step of a video delivery pipeline picks a different unit, and misreading by a factor of 1,000× or 8× is the single most common bitrate mistake in creator workflows. Setting an OBS live stream to 6,000 instead of 6,000,000 produces a slideshow; sizing a 1 Gbps line as if it were 1 Mbps undersells the connection by a thousand. Doing the conversion in your head every time leaks attention from the actual creative work.
This converter is intentionally bare-minimum so it stays fast and unambiguous: one input, four simultaneous outputs in the decimal SI convention (1 kbps = 1,000 bps) that encoders and ISPs actually use, with a copy button on every result so you can paste straight into your tool of choice without retyping. Pair it with the Video Bitrate Calculator when you need a target Mbps for a specific resolution and codec, and the Video File Size Calculator when you need to size the resulting file against an upload cap.
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