Mux
Mux is a video infrastructure API that lets developers add streaming, hosting, and analytics to applications without managing encoding pipelines or CDN configurations.
Our verdict
Who it's for
Video infrastructure for developers
Who should look elsewhere
Usage-based pricing can become expensive at high volume
Pros
- +Developer-first API design with comprehensive documentation
- +Free tier with 100K delivery minutes and no credit card required
- +Videos ready for playback in under 2 seconds on average
- +Usage-based pricing with no upfront commitment on Pay as You Go
- +Built-in analytics eliminate the need for a separate monitoring tool
Cons
- −Usage-based pricing can become expensive at high volume
- −Free tier limited to 10 stored videos and on-demand only
- −Custom domains cost an additional fee
- −No built-in CMS or video management UI for non-developers
- −Live simulcasting billed separately per minute per target
Key features
- ✓On-demand and live video streaming with adaptive bitrate delivery
- ✓Auto-generated subtitles and captions in multiple languages
- ✓Embeddable player via iframe, web component, or React component
- ✓Real-time analytics with startup time, rebuffering, and engagement metrics
- ✓Dynamic thumbnail and GIF generation via API parameters
- ✓Instant streaming clips and frame-accurate asset-based editing
- ✓Storyboard generation for AI content workflows
- ✓AI-powered content moderation and summarization
- ✓SDKs for Node.js, Python, Go, Ruby, PHP, and React Native
- ✓Framework integrations with Next.js, Astro, SvelteKit, Remix, and Laravel
Pricing
| Plan | Price | Billing | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | month | 100K free monthly delivery minutes; Up to 10 stored videos; On-demand videos only |
| Pay as You Go | $0 | month | 100K free delivery minutes per month; Unlimited stored videos; On-demand and live video |
| Launch | $20 | month | 100K free delivery minutes; $100 monthly usage credit for $20/month; On-demand and live video |
| Scale | $500 | month | 100K free delivery minutes; $1,000 monthly usage credit for $500/month; On-demand and live video |
| Enterprise | — | month | Steeper volume discounts; Account security features; SLA guarantees |