What is kibibyte (binary)?

A kibibyte is a binary data unit equal to 1,024 bytes. It is the IEC-standard unit that precisely distinguishes binary-based kilobyte measurements from the decimal kilobyte used in storage marketing.

What is kilobyte (decimal)?

A kilobyte in the decimal (SI) system is a data unit equal to 1,000 bytes. It is used by storage manufacturers and network providers to express file sizes and data transfer rates.

Worked examples

1 kibibyte (binary) = 1.024 kilobyte (decimal)

1 kilobyte (decimal) = 1,000 byte

More Data conversions

• Convert kibibyte (binary) to byte
• Convert kibibyte (binary) to kilobyte (decimal)
• Convert kibibyte (binary) to megabyte (decimal)
• Convert kibibyte (binary) to gigabyte (decimal)
• Convert kibibyte (binary) to terabyte (decimal)
• Convert kibibyte (binary) to bit
• Convert kibibyte (binary) to mebibyte (binary)
• Convert kibibyte (binary) to gibibyte (binary)
• Convert kibibyte (binary) to tebibyte (binary)

Assumption: both decimal (kB, MB, GB, TB) and binary (KiB, MiB, GiB, TiB) units are included.