Which is bigger, Kilobyte or Byte?

Kilobyte is bigger than Byte. One Kilobyte contains 1,000 Bytes.

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Decimal (SI Standard)	Binary (IEC Standard)
1 Kilobit = 10³ or 1000 Bits	1 Kilobyte = 10³ or 1000 Bytes	1 Kibibit = 2¹⁰ or 1024 Bits	1 Kibibyte = 2¹⁰ or 1024 Bytes
1 Megabit = 10⁶ or 1000² Bits	1 Megabyte = 10⁶ or 1000² Bytes	1 Mebibit = 2²⁰ or 1024² Bits	1 Mebibyte = 2²⁰ or 1024² Bytes
1 Gigabit = 10⁹ or 1000³ Bits	1 Gigabyte = 10⁹ or 1000³ Bytes	1 Gibibit = 2³⁰ or 1024³ Bits	1 Gibibyte = 2³⁰ or 1024³ Bytes
1 Terabit = 10¹² or 1000⁴ Bits	1 Terabyte = 10¹² or 1000⁴ Bytes	1 Tebibit = 2⁴⁰ or 1024⁴ Bits	1 Tebibyte = 2⁴⁰ or 1024⁴ Bytes
1 Petabit = 10¹⁵ or 1000⁵ Bits	1 Petabyte = 10¹⁵ or 1000⁵ Bytes	1 Pebibit = 2⁵⁰ or 1024⁵ Bits	1 Pebibyte = 2⁵⁰ or 1024⁵ Bytes
1 Exabit = 10¹⁸ or 1000⁶ Bits	1 Exabyte = 10¹⁸ or 1000⁶ Bytes	1 Exbibit = 2⁶⁰ or 1024⁶ Bits	1 Exbibyte = 2⁶⁰ or 1024⁶ Bytes
1 Zettabit = 10²¹ or 1000⁷ Bits	1 Zettabyte = 10²¹ or 1000⁷ Bytes	1 Zebibit = 2⁷⁰ or 1024⁷ Bits	1 Zebibyte = 2⁷⁰ or 1024⁷ Bytes
1 Yottabit = 10²⁴ or 1000⁸ Bits	1 Yottabyte = 10²⁴ or 1000⁸ Bytes	1 Yobibit = 2⁸⁰ or 1024⁸ Bits	1 Yobibyte = 2⁸⁰ or 1024⁸ Bytes

kB to Bytes Calculator - Convert Kilobyte to Byte

From Kilobyte

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Enter the value in Kilobyte and press Enter. ( eg: 1, 10, 50, 100, 250, 500, 1000, 1024, 2048 )

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kB to Bytes conversion tool helps you convert the digital data storage units from Kilobyte to Byte. Type the value in kB and press CONVERT button. The calculator will process the conversion from Kilobyte to Byte with the highest accuracy and display the result. Use the Copy button to copy the result to clipboard or Swap the conversion to change the conversion direction ie, Byte to Kilobyte.

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Use the below calculators to convert Kilobyte to some other units similar to Byte.

Difference between Kilobyte and Byte (kB vs Bytes)

Kilobyte (kB)

One Kilobyte is 10³ or 1000 Bytes.
Kilobyte is a decimal unit defined as per SI standard.
The unit symbol for Kilobyte is kB.
Kilobyte is not same as Kibibyte (KiB) that contains 1024 bytes.
1000 Kilobytes = 1 Megabyte (MB).

Byte (B)

Byte is a unit of digital information that most commonly consists of eight bits.
A single byte can be used to represent 256 different values.
1000bytes = 1 Kilobyte (KB).
1024 bytes = 1 Kibibyte (KiB).

How to convert Kilobyte to Byte?

Below formula is used convert from Kilobyte (kB) to Byte (B) in the above kB to B Calculator.

kB to B Conversion Formula :

Byte = Kilobyte x (8x1000) / (8)
or
Byte = Kilobyte x 1000

Kilobyte to Byte Conversion Steps : Kilobyte is first converted to bits by multiplying with 8x1000 and then, converted to Bytes by dividing with 8. In short, we can just multiply Kilobyte with 1000 to get the value in Byte.

kB -> Bits -> Nibble -> Bytes Conversion Table

Value of Kilobyte (kB)	in Bit (b)	in Nibble - 4 bits	in Byte (B) - 8 bits
1 kB	8,000 Bits	2,000 Nibble	1,000 Bytes
2 kB	16,000 Bits	4,000 Nibble	2,000 Bytes
3 kB	24,000 Bits	6,000 Nibble	3,000 Bytes
4 kB	32,000 Bits	8,000 Nibble	4,000 Bytes
6 kB	48,000 Bits	12,000 Nibble	6,000 Bytes
7 kB	56,000 Bits	14,000 Nibble	7,000 Bytes
8 kB	64,000 Bits	16,000 Nibble	8,000 Bytes
9 kB	72,000 Bits	18,000 Nibble	9,000 Bytes
10 kB	80,000 Bits	20,000 Nibble	10,000 Bytes
100 kB	800,000 Bits	200,000 Nibble	100,000 Bytes
256 kB	2,048,000 Bits	512,000 Nibble	256,000 Bytes
500 kB	4,000,000 Bits	1,000,000 Nibble	500,000 Bytes
512 kB	4,096,000 Bits	1,024,000 Nibble	512,000 Bytes
1000 kB	8,000,000 Bits	2,000,000 Nibble	1,000,000 Bytes
1024 kB	8,192,000 Bits	2,048,000 Nibble	1,024,000 Bytes
2048 kB	16,384,000 Bits	4,096,000 Nibble	2,048,000 Bytes
5000 kB	40,000,000 Bits	10,000,000 Nibble	5,000,000 Bytes
10000 kB	80,000,000 Bits	20,000,000 Nibble	10,000,000 Bytes