A video API to build in one sprint or less | Mux Skip to contentMux Logo Toggle Mux Brand Popover Toggle navigation menu Product Solutions Developers Pricing Blog Talk to usTalk to us Log inLog in 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. Get started freeGet started freeGet a demoGet a demo 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. Learn moreLearn more 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. Learn moreLearn more 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. Learn moreLearn more A secret button that triggers an easter egg 🤫 Developer friendly video API Mux is developer first. Everything you might want to do with your videos can be done with our video API. Upload and retrieve videos, create clips or monitor your video delivery all from an API call. You will also get webhooks delivered to you for everything that happens to every one of your videos or live streams for full observability. Learn moreLearn more ✨ 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. See the rest One more thing. Our industry-leading analytics product has tracked the Internet’s largest streams, and it’s available for free for Video users. Learn more Skip 40 featuresSkip 40 featuresDirect uploads Pull-based inputs Wide range of input file formats Test assets Instant clipping Clipping Stream live RTMP input SRT input Instant Live to VOD Just-in-time encoding Smart adaptive bitrate (ABR) ladder Audio normalization DRM (Digital Rights Management) Subtitles and Closed Captions Auto-generated captions Thumbnails GIFs Storyboards MP4 for offline viewing Multi-track audio 4K support Watermarking Playback policies Signed URLs Redundant delivery option Live simulcasting Low-latency live streaming Mux Player for web and mobile Mux Player iframe Mux Robots Automatic Cold Storage Usage tracking per asset Multi-organization user access Master access Webhooks Headless CMS integration Live Stream Input Health Engagement Metrics Video analytics Direct uploads Pull-based inputs Wide range of input file formats Test assets Instant clipping Clipping Stream live RTMP input SRT input Instant Live to VOD Just-in-time encoding Smart adaptive bitrate (ABR) ladder Audio normalization DRM (Digital Rights Management) Subtitles and Closed Captions Auto-generated captions Thumbnails GIFs Storyboards MP4 for offline viewing Multi-track audio 4K support Watermarking Playback policies Signed URLs Redundant delivery option Live simulcasting Low-latency live streaming Mux Player for web and mobile Mux Player iframe Mux Robots Automatic Cold Storage Usage tracking per asset Multi-organization user access Master access Webhooks Headless CMS integration Live Stream Input Health Engagement Metrics Video analytics 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 They said it best “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 They said it best “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 They said it best “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 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 They said it best “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 They said it best “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 They said it best “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 PreviousNext No credit card required to start using Mux. 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