| JPEG XL 2021 | JPEG (de facto) 1992 | PNG 1996 | JPEG 2000 2000 | WebP 2010 | HEIC 2015 | AVIF 2019 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Compression (Photos) | |||||||
| Low Fidelity | |||||||
| Medium Fidelity | |||||||
| High Fidelity | |||||||
| Lossless | |||||||
| Compression (Other Images) | |||||||
| Lossy non-photographic | |||||||
| Lossless non-photographic | |||||||
| Mixed photo/non-photo | |||||||
| Speed | |||||||
| Single-core encode speed | |||||||
| Single-core decode speed | |||||||
| Parallelizable | |||||||
| Limits | |||||||
| Precision Max Depth | 32 bit | 8 bit | 16 bit | 38 bit | 8 bit | 10 bit | 10/12 bit |
| Supports Lossy 4:4:4 | |||||||
| Wide gamut/HDR | |||||||
| Maximum Number of Channels | 4,099 | 4 | 4 | 16,384 | 4 | 5 | 5 |
| Maximum Image Dimensions | 1,073,741,824 x 1,073,741,824 | 65,535 x 65,535 | 2,147,483,647 x 2,147,483,647 | 4,294,967,295 x 4,294,967,295 | 16,383 x 16,383 | 8,192 x 4,352 | 65,536 x 65,536 |
| Features | |||||||
| Supports animation | (M-JPEG) | (APNG) | (MJ2) | ||||
| Progressive decoding | |||||||
| Alpha transparency | |||||||
| Depth map | |||||||
| Overlays | |||||||
| Authoring workflow suitability | |||||||
| Generational loss resilience | n/a | ||||||
| Lossless JPEG recompression | n/a | ||||||
| Royalty-free |
Chart adapted from Time for Next-Gen Codecs to Dethrone JPEG (Jon Sneyers, Cloudinary blog, February 2021).
