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SVG to WebP
Convert SVG to WebP Online — Free, Transparency Kept
Rasterize SVG vectors to WebP images, transparency preserved.
About SVG to WebP
WebP is what you want when an SVG has to become a raster image for the web and still keep its clear background. The rasterization is the same one the SVG to PNG page does — the browser's own rendering engine draws the document — and so is the sizing rule: a declared width and height are used as-is, and a document carrying only a viewBox is scaled up until its longest edge is at least 1024 pixels. That last number is a floor and never a ceiling, so a 2000 × 1000 artboard rasterizes at 2000 × 1000 rather than being shrunk to fit. There is no resolution control on this page; set the size on the SVG first if you need a specific one. Two things separate this from SVG to PNG. WebP files are usually smaller for the same drawing, and WebP has a lossy mode that PNG does not, which is the quality slider on this page. For flat vector artwork that mode is worth spending carefully: quantization shows up as a faint halo along hard edges and around text, so turn the quality up when the drawing is line work and leave it lower for gradients and illustration. The alpha channel survives either way, so a logo drawn on nothing stays drawn on nothing. Rasterizing is still one-way, so keep the SVG — it is the only version that can be re-rendered at another size. The drawing is rendered through an image element and never inlined into this page's DOM, and nothing is uploaded.
Questions
What pixel size will the WebP be?
The SVG decides. A document that declares its own width and height is rasterized at exactly those pixels; a document carrying only a viewBox is scaled up until its longest edge is at least 1024 pixels, which keeps a 24 × 24 icon from coming out as a 24 × 24 raster. It only ever scales up, so a viewBox of 2000 × 1000 rasterizes at 2000 × 1000. There is no resolution control here — set the size on the SVG first, or resize the result afterwards.
Does the transparency survive?
Yes. WebP carries a full alpha channel, so the empty area around a logo stays empty instead of being painted onto a background. That is the practical difference between this page and SVG to JPG, which has to flatten it to white.
Should I pick WebP or PNG for a rasterized vector?
It depends on the artwork. WebP is normally the smaller file and is now supported essentially everywhere, which makes it the better default for the web. But PNG is lossless, and for flat-colour line art — the kind of thing most SVGs are — lossless output can be both exact and competitively small. If the raster is going somewhere old or somewhere fussy, PNG remains the safest thing to hand over.
Can I get the vector back from the WebP?
No. Rasterizing is one-way: paths, text and shapes become a grid of pixels and nothing in the output records what drew them. Keep the SVG as the master — it stays sharp at any size and it is usually smaller than the raster you exported from it.
Can a malicious SVG do anything when I drop it here?
No. The drawing is rasterized by handing the file to an image element rather than by inlining its markup into this page — and an SVG loaded that way is sandboxed by the browser: its scripts do not run and the external resources it references are not fetched. The file is also never uploaded anywhere; the whole conversion happens in your own browser.
Is my file uploaded to a server?
No. Transmute processes everything locally in your browser using JavaScript and WebAssembly. Your files never leave your device — there is no server, no upload, no cloud processing.