PNGs pixelate the moment you scale them up. Convert yours to SVG and the same file stays crisp at 16px, 256px, or printed on a billboard. AI-traced into layered, editable paths, not one giant opaque blob.
Your PNG is processed to make the SVG and then discarded. We don't keep uploads. Privacy.
A PNG is a grid of pixels, great when you're using it at the exact size it was exported, terrible at anything else. Zoom in for a hero section and you'll see every square. Zoom out for a favicon and anti-aliasing swallows the detail. SVG stores the shapes, not the pixels, so the file draws itself afresh at whatever size the browser asks for. Same file, 16px to 2048px, always sharp. And the file is usually smaller than the PNG.
Works with transparent or opaque backgrounds. Up to 5 MB. The image is downscaled to 1024px server-side before the model sees it, so a giant source PNG doesn't cost you extra time.
Google's Gemini 3 reads the PNG, identifies the primitives, circles, rects, paths, and writes them out as a small set of named layers. Typical result for an icon: 3–8 layers.
Preview right on the page, download the file, drop it into your project. Or open it in Vectos Studio to recolour, regenerate, or build a whole icon set around it.
PNG's alpha channel tells us what's foreground and what's background. The resulting SVG keeps that distinction, no accidental white box behind your icon.
Captured a UI element or a logo on screen? The converter handles PNG screenshots the same way, just expect the model to simplify minor details that wouldn't read at small sizes anyway.
If your PNG was exported from a vector file (Figma, Illustrator, Sketch), the trace is near-lossless. The AI is reading back the original shapes, rectangles, circles, clean paths.
The AI still identifies what the image is and emits clean paths, so the SVG can actually look better than the blurry source. It's reinterpretation, not tracing.
Up to 5 MB. The image is downscaled to 1024px on the longest edge before being passed to the model, bigger uploads don't produce better results, they just take longer to upload.
Usually yes, often by a lot. A 200 KB icon PNG often becomes a 1–3 KB SVG. That size gap grows as the PNG gets larger, SVGs are resolution-independent, so there's no cost to using them at 2× or 3×.
Yes. The SVG only draws the shapes it identifies, so transparent areas of the PNG stay transparent in the SVG, perfect for overlaying on any background.
For icons, logos, and flat illustrations: very close, often indistinguishable. For detailed photographic PNGs: no, the AI simplifies. If pixel-exact fidelity is the goal, you want a raster tracer, not this tool.
Not through this free page, one at a time. If you're batch-converting, sign up to use Vectos Studio's generation and API.
Yes. No watermark, no attribution required. Commercial use is fine. Details in Terms.
Photos, scans, compressed exports. Flat-shape trace, transparent backgrounds optional.
Modern web format → crisp, editable vector. Useful for Chrome-captured assets.
Vectorize a wordmark or mark once, reuse everywhere, decks, apps, print.
Works for any raster format. Same converter, same output, just a broader landing.
Vectos Studio is a full AI canvas for SVG work, generate new icons, refine existing ones, keep a whole project on-brand. The Free plan includes 20 monthly credits.
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