A video API to build in one sprint or less

Mux helps you build unique live and on-demand video experiences at scale, with the kind of developer experience you and your team will love.

Billions of minutes served for companies like

Instant everything

Our median time to get a video ready for playback is less than 2 seconds. That’s 100x faster than your other options.

Flexible pricing

Automatic discounts and pricing levers that allow you to add video into your product without breaking your business model.

Proven at scale

We serve billions of streams for thousands of customers. Mux is a battle-hardened system that’s handled everything from volume spikes to Internet outages over the years, so your mission-critical streams are safe with us.

DevEx at our core

Developer experience isn’t just an afterthought, it’s core to our product philosophy. We take pride in great docs, tooling, and best-in-class support from developers.

On-demand video

Add native video uploads to your application quickly and easily through our video API. We can handle anything your users throw at us, from weird file formats to millions of viewers.

Live video

Give your customers the ability to go live in an instant, whether it’s 1 at a time or 1,000. Live streams instantly turn into on-demand recordings, and we support modern industry standards like low latency.

Seamless integration with our open-source player

Take advantage of all of Mux’s features by using our player. Whether it’s a native player that gets out of your way on iOS and Android or a player for web based on modern standards. It’s beautiful out of the box, deeply customizable, and live in your app in minutes.

Built-in AI workflows

Automate AI video workflows with Mux Robots. Summarize, moderate, find key moments, translate, and understand engagement insights for your videos with built-in workflows evaluated and built by video experts. Define it once with Directives, and it runs automatically across every upload.

curl https://api.mux.com/robots/v0/directives \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -X POST \
  -d '{\n    "name": "Generate captions, then translate",\n    "subject": { "type": "video.asset" },\n    "resources": [\
      {\
        "reference_id": "captions_en",\
        "type": "video.asset.track",\
        "kind": "caption",\
        "language": "en",\
        "source": { "via": "workflow", "binding": "premium_captions" }\
      }\
    ],\n    "workflows": [\
      {\
        "reference_id": "premium_captions",\
        "workflow": "generate-premium-captions",\
        "params": { "language_code": "en" }\
      },\
      {\
        "reference_id": "translate_es",\
        "workflow": "translate-captions",\
        "inputs": ["captions_en"],\
        "params": { "to_language_code": "es" }\
      }\
    ]\n  }' \
  -u ${MUX_TOKEN_ID}:${MUX_TOKEN_SECRET}

✨ And so much more

From features like magical thumbnails and gifs that are just one API request away, to drop-in elements for displaying the number of current viewers, if you can imagine a video feature you want to add to your app, Mux can probably help you build it.

They said it best

“We built an in-house MVP solution for video, but rather than spending our engineering team’s time navigating and maintaining video infrastructure, we turned to Mux. With Mux, video just works, which means we can focus on building the best product for Substack creators and trust that video is solved.”
Jairaj Sethi, Co-founder and CTO,

“We researched, candidly, every single option. Mux kept coming up as the number one ease of integration was amazing that it's just a couple of lines of code and "boom".”
Will Baumann, CEO,

“We were stressing about how long it would take to fix our video streaming, but I was able to open up Github mobile and integrate Mux on my phone. I had something working in two hours. That’s wild.”
Gaurav Misra, Co-Founder and CEO

“Mux has enabled us to move 5x faster. We can trust processes like uploading and transcoding are handled really well — and we didn’t have to spend the time and resources on our end building that out.”
Bethany Stachenfeld, CEO and Co-founder,