Photo requirements
What every marketplace actually requires for vehicle photos.
Every marketplace publishes different photo rules — when it publishes any at all. Here is each one’s own published spec, linked to its help page, and exactly where they disagree, including with themselves. Pick a marketplace below for the full breakdown.
Pick a marketplace
The full breakdown, one marketplace at a time.
For eBay Motors sellers
eBay Motors
Cars, trucks, motorcycles, powersports vehicles, boats and trailers, listed by both dealers and individual sellers.
See the full specFor Autotrader dealers
Autotrader
New and used cars and trucks, listed by franchise and independent dealers.
See the full specFor Cars.com listings
Cars.com
New and used cars and trucks, listed by dealers and private sellers.
See the full specFor CarGurus listings
CarGurus
New and used cars and trucks, listed by dealers through an inventory feed.
See the full specFor Boat Trader, YachtWorld & boats.com
Boat Trader, YachtWorld & boats.com
Boats, yachts and PWC, listed by dealers and brokers and synced across Boat Trader, YachtWorld and boats.com through one BoatWizard listing.
See the full specFor RV Trader listings
RV Trader
New and used RVs, travel trailers and campers, listed by dealers and private sellers.
See the full specFor Cycle Trader listings
Cycle Trader
New and used motorcycles, ATVs, UTVs and other powersports units, listed by dealers and private sellers.
See the full specFor Equipment Trader listings
Equipment Trader
Ag, construction and other heavy equipment, listed by dealers.
See the full specSide by side
No single marketplace publishes this table.
Every value below matches that marketplace’s own spec on its dedicated page. Follow the link for the full source.
Reflects each marketplace’s own published guidance as of 2026-07-25. “Not published” means we don’t list a figure for it; check that marketplace’s help pages before you shoot. See each marketplace’s page for the full spec.
Where marketplaces disagree
The same photo, three different answers.
These aren’t typos — every source below is a marketplace’s own currently-published page. We show both sides rather than pick a winner for you.
Maximum file size — three sister sites, three different numbers
Cycle Trader, Equipment Trader and RV Trader are all owned by Trader Interactive and share a package-tier structure, but each brand's help center documents a different photo file-size ceiling.
Boat Trader disagrees with itself
A legacy Boat Trader help article and Boat Trader's own 2026 research guide are both live on boattrader.com at the same time, with very different numbers.
Minimum resolution — small on purpose vs. large on purpose
Autotrader's published spec caps photos at a small size built for older listing software; eBay Motors sets a floor on the opposite end and accepts far larger files.
Not built — and why
Two marketplaces we didn’t give their own page.
We only ship a page when we can back every number on it. These two didn’t clear that bar, so here’s what each one does publish instead of a thin page padded with guesses.
Facebook Marketplace
Not published by Meta. Its Help Center page does not show photo specs we could confirm, so we don't list any.
Machinery Trader
Only one figure appears on its own page; everything else (minimum count, file size, resolution, format, watermark policy, stock-photo policy) is unpublished. A page built on one number would have to pad itself out with generic advice, so it stays a comparison-index row instead.
Machinery Trader is owned by Sandhills Global — a different company from Trader Interactive, despite the shared ‘___ Trader’ naming shared with RV Trader, Cycle Trader and Equipment Trader.