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.

What is gibibyte (binary)?

A gibibyte is a binary data unit equal to 1,024 mebibytes, approximately 1.074 gigabytes. It is used by operating systems and technical documentation to express exact binary storage capacities.

Worked examples

1 kilobyte (decimal) = 9.313226e-07 gibibyte (binary)

1 gibibyte (binary) = 1.073742e+09 byte

More Data conversions

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

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