Mercado Libre Product Image Requirements: Size, Backgrounds and Moderation

The help pages recommend 1200 x 1200 pixels so buyers can zoom, and set a minimum of 500 pixels on the longer side. The developer guide for uploading images gives a minimum of 500 x 500 pixels and a maximum accepted size of 1920 x 1920 pixels. Larger images are resized, and smaller ones are not enlarged.

The same developer guide accepts JPG, JPEG and PNG files up to 10 MB. The number of photos is not one fixed figure: it is set per category, through the max_pictures_per_item field in the Categories API.

Only in some categories. The Seller Center notes for Argentina and Brazil say a white background is still required in Technology, Beauty, Health and Supermarket. In most other categories white backgrounds are still allowed but no longer required. Some Fashion and Home and Furniture categories accept backgrounds in context, and Brazil's fashion requirement pages ask for plain neutral backgrounds such as gray, cream or beige rather than a digital white.

Where white is required, the guidance asks for a pure white background created digitally with a photo editor, with the product centered and filling 95% of the image and no margins. An Argentine help page suggests the product fill about 70% of the image instead, so check the page for your country and category.

The help pages and Seller Center notes ask you to leave out your logo, watermarks, borders, QR codes, contact details and text, and to show one unit of the product. Packaging and other angles belong in the second photo onward. Use photos you took yourself: a photo that infringes copyright can get the listing paused or reported by the rights holder.

The developer guide on image moderation says listings can be moderated for image quality, with the status active or paused and the tag poor_quality_thumbnail. Its image diagnosis can flag a cover photo whose background is not digital white. It describes the cover photo as the most important image, with the strictest rules.

The frames below are our working recommendation, not a Mercado Libre rule. Write any text in secondary images in the language of the site you sell on: Spanish for the Spanish-language sites and Portuguese for Mercado Livre in Brazil.

Useful secondary frames include an angled view that shows depth, an in-use scene, a dimensions frame in centimeters or grams from your own measurements, a close-up of materials or ports, and the box contents. Show only what the buyer receives.

Picmato does not cut your product out of its photo. It generates a fresh studio shot, directed to a plain white studio background, and can plan lifestyle scenes for the rest of the set. AI renderers do not guarantee an exact RGB value, so check the background with a color picker before uploading. Picmato does not check files against Mercado Libre's rules, so confirm the current spec for each country site before uploading.