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Understanding Mux Pricing
Read this guide to understand how Mux Video and Mux Robots pricing works. It explains input, storage, and delivery rates, plus the levers and add-ons that control your costs.
In this guide:
- Mux Video: Learn how Mux Video charges for input, storage, and delivery, and how video quality levels affect the price.
- Mux Robots: Understand how Mux Robots is priced, and what each AI workflow costs in units and dollars.
- Pricing levers and add-ons: Explore additional ways to modify your costs and do more with your assets such as volume discounts, resolution tiers, and paid add-ons like DRM.
- FAQs: Get answers to the most common pricing questions.
Pay as you go, prepaid credits, and contracts
- Pay as you go: the tables below include automatic volume tiers. Each rate applies to the minutes within that tier, rather than to all minutes at the final tier's rate.
- Prepaid credits: Launch and Scale plans apply their credits to usage calculated at the published rates.
- Custom contracts: separately negotiated rates for larger workloads. These are distinct from the automatic discounts in the tables.
The published tables show pay-as-you-go rates, including automatic volume discounts. Mux also offers custom contract pricing for larger workloads, with additional discounts available above $3,000/month.
Mux Video
Mux Video pricing is made up of input, storage, and delivery. Let's start with input.
Input
Videos can come in all sorts of different formats, containers, codecs, or countless other variations. When a video is uploaded to Mux, we process it and create a high-quality, standardized version of the video through a process called "encoding." Mux supports a configurable video quality level on each asset, with three levels, basic, plus, and premium.
The basic video quality level uses a reduced encoding ladder, with a lower target video quality, suitable for simpler video use cases. There is no charge for video input when using basic quality.
The plus video quality level encodes your video at a consistent high-quality level. Assets encoded with the plus quality incur a cost per video minute of encoding.
The premium video quality level uses AI-powered per-title encoding technology optimized for the presentation of premium media content. The premium quality level incurs a higher cost per video minute of encoding.
Live Streams are only available with the plus and premium video quality levels.
Basic quality input
On-demand video only.
| Monthly volume tiers | Up to 720p | 1080p | 1440p (2K) | 2160p (4K) | Audio-only |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All volumes | Free | Free | Free | Free | Free |
Plus quality input
Pricing is per minute.
| Monthly volume tiers | Up to 720p | 1080p | 1440p (2K) | 2160p (4K) | Audio-only |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| First 5,000 minutes | $0.025000 | $0.031250 | $0.050000 | $0.100000 | $0.002500 |
| Next 10,000 minutes | $0.023750 | $0.029688 | $0.047500 | $0.095000 | $0.002375 |
| Next 10,000 minutes | $0.023125 | $0.028906 | $0.046250 | $0.092500 | $0.002313 |
| Over 25,000 minutes | $0.022500 | $0.028125 | $0.045000 | $0.090000 | $0.002250 |
Premium quality input
Pricing is per minute.
| Monthly volume tiers | Up to 720p | 1080p | 1440p (2K) | 2160p (4K) | Audio-only |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| First 5,000 minutes | $0.037500 | $0.046875 | $0.075000 | $0.150000 | $0.002500 |
| Next 10,000 minutes | $0.035625 | $0.044531 | $0.071250 | $0.142500 | $0.002375 |
| Next 10,000 minutes | $0.034688 | $0.043359 | $0.069375 | $0.138750 | $0.002313 |
| Over 25,000 minutes | $0.033750 | $0.042188 | $0.067500 | $0.135000 | $0.002250 |
Storage
When we talked about input, we mentioned that Mux creates a single, high-quality, standardized version of each video. Mux automatically applies discounts to infrequently accessed assets through Automatic Cold Storage.
Storage is calculated by minute of video stored. Storage is prorated by the percentage of the month that the video is stored.
Basic and plus quality storage
Pricing is per minute per month.
| Monthly volume tiers | Up to 720p | 1080p | 1440p (2K) | 2160p (4K) | Audio-only |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| First 50,000 minutes | $0.002400 | $0.003000 | $0.004800 | $0.009600 | $0.000240 |
| Next 100,000 minutes | $0.002320 | $0.002900 | $0.004640 | $0.009280 | $0.000232 |
| Next 100,000 minutes | $0.002280 | $0.002850 | $0.004560 | $0.009120 | $0.000228 |
| Over 250,000 minutes | $0.002240 | $0.002800 | $0.004480 | $0.008960 | $0.000224 |
Premium quality storage
Pricing is per minute per month.
| Monthly volume tiers | Up to 720p | 1080p | 1440p (2K) | 2160p (4K) | Audio-only |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| First 50,000 minutes | $0.003600 | $0.004500 | $0.007200 | $0.014400 | $0.000240 |
| Next 100,000 minutes | $0.003480 | $0.004350 | $0.006960 | $0.013920 | $0.000232 |
| Next 100,000 minutes | $0.003420 | $0.004275 | $0.006840 | $0.013680 | $0.000228 |
| Over 250,000 minutes | $0.003360 | $0.004200 | $0.006720 | $0.013440 | $0.000224 |
Delivery
To calculate video delivered, we measure the number of seconds of video delivered to a video player.
Basic and plus quality delivery
The first 100,000 minutes delivered each month, regardless of quality or resolution, are free.
Pricing is per minute.
| Monthly volume tiers | Up to 720p | 1080p | 1440p (2K) | 2160p (4K) | Audio-only |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| First 500,000 minutes | $0.000800 | $0.001000 | $0.001600 | $0.003200 | $0.000080 |
| Next 500,000 minutes | $0.000760 | $0.000950 | $0.001520 | $0.003040 | $0.000076 |
| Next million minutes | $0.000720 | $0.000900 | $0.001440 | $0.002880 | $0.000072 |
| Next 4 million minutes | $0.000670 | $0.000838 | $0.001340 | $0.002680 | $0.000067 |
| Next 4 million minutes | $0.000610 | $0.000763 | $0.001220 | $0.002440 | $0.000061 |
| Over 10 million minutes | $0.000560 | $0.000700 | $0.001120 | $0.002240 | $0.000056 |
Premium quality delivery
The first 100,000 minutes delivered each month, regardless of quality or resolution, are free.
Pricing is per minute.
| Monthly volume tiers | Up to 720p | 1080p | 1440p (2K) | 2160p (4K) | Audio-only |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| First 500,000 minutes | $0.001200 | $0.001500 | $0.002400 | $0.004800 | $0.000080 |
| Next 500,000 minutes | $0.001140 | $0.001425 | $0.002280 | $0.004560 | $0.000076 |
| Next million minutes | $0.001080 | $0.001350 | $0.002160 | $0.004320 | $0.000072 |
| Next 4 million minutes | $0.001005 | $0.001256 | $0.002010 | $0.004020 | $0.000067 |
| Next 4 million minutes | $0.000915 | $0.001144 | $0.001830 | $0.003660 | $0.000061 |
| Over 10 million minutes | $0.000840 | $0.001050 | $0.001680 | $0.003360 | $0.000056 |
Mux Robots
Mux Robots hosts AI workflows that allow you to extract structured data from your Mux assets. Mux Robots is available to all Mux Video customers. The first 100,000 units each month are free.
Mux Robots workflows are priced in units. Units account for resource usage across multiple dimensions. They are generally accrued based on the duration of the asset and the complexity of the workflow.
The first 100,000 units each month are free, after that 1,000 units is equal to $0.01.
| Workflow | Per job | Per minute |
|---|---|---|
| Translate captions | 100 units | 500 units |
| Summarize | 500 units | 30 units |
| Generate chapters | 300 units | 50 units |
| Find key moments | 2000 units | 400 units |
| Ask questions | 200 units | 50 units |
| Edit captions | 500 units | |
| Find scenes | 1000 units | 400 units |
| Generate engagement insights | 2000 units | |
| Generate premium captions | 500 units | |
| Translate audio | 70000 units |
Pricing levers and add-ons
Mux offers a few ways to suit your pricing to your use case: pricing levers you can pull to move our standard encoding, storage, and delivery pricing up and down, and add-ons you can use to do more with your assets.