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The Mux Blog

We're a team of engineers, marketers, designers, all passionate about video and the work we create together. Welcome to our blog about video.

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Published on April 3, 2026 (4 days ago)

Simple pricing doesn't work for infrastructure

Matthew McClure
By Matthew McClure11 min readCompany & ProductPricing

Simple pricing is great for consumers, bad for infra. What we learned building Mux’s pricing.

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Published on March 24, 2026 (14 days ago)

Ship your next Mux integration from the terminal

Dave Kiss
By Dave Kiss11 min readEngineering & Product

We refreshed the Mux CLI to give developers and AI coding agents a structured, terminal-native interface to the entire Mux video API.

Video.js logo situated over a illustrated VCR with a VHS that says v10 beta on the label

Published on March 10, 2026 (28 days ago)

Video.js v10 Beta: Hello, World (again)

Steve Heffernan
By Steve Heffernan15 min readProductVideo.js

Video.js v10 is a ground-up rewrite combining four open source players into one modern framework — 88% smaller default bundles, first-class React and TypeScript support, composable architecture, and beautiful new skins designed by Plyr's creator.

Vidstack, Mux Player, Plyr, and Media Chrome building into Video.js

Published on January 27, 2026 (2 months ago)

Five players, one future: How we're building Video.js v10

Steve Heffernan
By Steve Heffernan5 min readProductVideo.js

Video.js v10 brings together the engineers behind Media Chrome, Plyr, Vidstack, and Mux Player to rebuild the web's most-used video player from scratch. Fifteen years of production insights from the web's most important player projects, now being combined into a single architecture.

Mux Player and VideoJS logos

Published on January 21, 2026 (3 months ago)

Mux Player: Five years of learning, now evolving into Video.js v10

Steve Heffernan
By Steve Heffernan6 min readProductVideo.js

Mux Player made video effortless by tightly coupling to Mux infrastructure — drop in a playback ID and thumbnails, captions, and security just worked. Five years of production insights are now shaping Video.js v10 to deliver the same simplicity with greater flexibility.

Videstack and Video.js logo

Published on January 15, 2026 (3 months ago)

6 Years Building Video Players. 9 Billion Requests. Starting Over.

Rahim Alwer
By Rahim Alwer12 min readProductVideo.js

Vidstack brought Radix-like composition and framework-native components to video players. Now its developer experience and API design principles are helping to shape Video.js v10.

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Published on December 18, 2025 (4 months ago)

Introducing Usage Reports for Mux Video

Ashley Cutler
By Ashley Cutler2 min readProduct

New Usage Reports in the Mux Dashboard shows detailed breakdowns of your video usage across encoding, storage, and delivery over time.

A toolkit icon next to a list of video/AI features, including getSummaryAndTags, generateChapters, and more.

Published on December 16, 2025 (4 months ago)

Video + AI shouldn't be hard, so we built @mux/ai

Phil Cluff
By Phil Cluff11 min readProductAI

Announcing @mux/ai: open-source SDK for AI video features. Seven workflows from moderation to dubbing with built-in evals. Just npm i @mux/ai, and ship.

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Published on December 3, 2025 (4 months ago)

How Mux makes scaling video infrastructure predictable and affordable

Greg Reynolds
By Greg Reynolds5 min readProductPricing

Mux's Scale plan offers $1,000 in usage credits for $500/month with no annual commitment, making video infrastructure predictable and affordable as you grow.

fal.ai logo on the left, Mux logo on the right atop a red background

Published on December 2, 2025 (4 months ago)

Build a generative-video app with fal.ai and Mux

Joshua Alphonse
By Joshua Alphonse5 min readProduct

Build fast generative video apps with fal.ai and Mux. Generate AI videos in one API call and stream instantly with <MuxPlayer />, no pipeline required.

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