Minified JSON is the version you ship. It strips every space and line break so a payload is as small as it can be. Paste your data here to minify json in your browser, free, and watch it turn into json compact output in a single click.
Same data, fewer bytes.
Pretty-printed JSON is full of spaces, tabs, and newlines that make it readable for people but waste bytes on the wire. To minify json is to remove all of that and leave one tight line. The result is json compact output that parses exactly the same but ships smaller.
This is a real form of string compression for your payloads. Fewer bytes means faster API responses and lower bandwidth, which adds up across millions of requests. You can compress json online here as often as you like, and json minify happens entirely in your browser so nothing is uploaded.
When you need it readable again.
Minifying is one direction; sometimes you need the opposite. To expand a compact payload back into something you can read, the JSON Formatter works as a json beautify tool, a json beautifier online, and a json builder online. Paste the single line and it indents everything back into a tidy tree.
JSON is not the only thing you compress.
JavaScript and CSS have their own tools. The JS Minifier handles minify js online, and the JS Beautifier covers unminify js and js minify to normal when you need to read minified code again. For stylesheets, the CSS Beautifier handles unminify css. They live next to this tool in the same developer set.
A common mix-up worth clearing up.
People sometimes search for json stringify online, json to json string online, or json to stringify online when they actually want minifying, and sometimes the reverse. Minifying shrinks valid JSON into a compact line. Stringifying escapes JSON into a string value, with quotes and backslashes added. They are different jobs, so pick the one that matches what you need to paste next.
What this tool is not.
This compresses JSON, it does not change its format. For a json converter or a json converter online, the JSON to CSV and JSON to XML tools turn JSON into other shapes. There is also no json formatter extension to install; everything runs on the page, so there is nothing to add to your browser.
One more note on spelling and scope: whether you type minify json or the common typo minifiy json, you land in the right place. This is not a general minify text tool, though, since it needs valid JSON to parse before it can compress it.
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