Smart video, surprisingly affordable
Plans
Free
$0 a month
Kick off your video project. No credit card required to get started.
100K free monthly delivery minutes
Up to 10 videos
On-demand videos only
Add a credit card to unlock additional usage + access to all features, including live video.
Starter
$10 a month
Scales with your app or site as it grows. Includes all API features.
100K free monthly delivery minutes
Unlimited videos
On-demand and live videos
$100 monthly usage credit
Enterprise
Custom
More security and support options. Discounted rates over $3k/month.
Steeper volume discounts
Account security features
SLAs
24/7 support
What can you get with $100 credit?
Credit-based plans are flexible to fit any type of project you might want to build. Need more than the allotted credits? Pay for what you use with usage-based pricing.
With $100, you could...
- Upload 50 5-minute videos
- Store those 50 videos for one month
- Stream 174k minutes to your customers
Trusted by the best teams
Evolved from embedded video to native video without breaking the budget
Grew from a DIY experiment to cost-efficient, video at high volumes
Migrated from an expensive, all-in-one video platform to Mux-enabled native video
Rebuilt an expensive homegrown video system into affordable, scalable video with Mux
Do you need to migrate?
We’d love to work with you to get you transitioned to better video infrastructure. Let’s talk about your free migration options.
Usage-based pricing
Video in
Mux Video can handle just about any video and audio formats you throw at it. Your files and live streams will be standardized and set up to stream to any audience as soon as we get them. We call this "input" or "encoding". See below for high-volume discounts and quality-based pricing.
File
Video + audio starting at
Free
Up to 1080p video
Live
Video starting at
$0.032 / minute
Audio-only starting at $0.004 per minute
Video stored
Efficiently store original-quality and optimized versions of your video in redundant cloud storage. See automatic discounts for infrequently watched videos and higher volumes.
Video starting at
$0.0030
per minute per month of video stored
Up to 720p video. For higher resolutions, see below
Audio-only starting at $0.00045 per minute
Video out
Deliver video to viewers with high performance and industry-leading reliability through multiple CDNs. See automatic discounts for high volumes.
Video starting at
100K minutes free
up to 1080p video
Then starts at $0.00096/minute for up to 720p video. For higher resolutions, see below
Audio-only starting at $0.00012 per minute
Included
Players built by the experts
$1,000s in value.
Tap into video expertise — built by the same team behind Video.js and major streaming platforms, get battle-tested players and SDKs that leverage decades of video player development without additional cost.
Big Game-grade analytics
$1,000s in value
Get the same video analytics trusted by many of the best streaming services — at zero extra cost. The analytics platform monitoring the World Cup and the Big Game is included with every Mux Video plan.
How is it so cheap?
“I expected the total for the year to be more; the bill seems too low. Since the pricing is so much lower than expected, I’m wondering if there is any sacrifice on quality?”
Brian Dwyer
Head of product,
Kubicle
We hear this a lot. With such affordable pricing, what's the catch? Simple answer: there isn't one. Video should be a utility of the internet, not a luxury. We've built Mux to be scalable and efficient. These smart infrastructure decisions allow us to pass substantial cost savings directly to you, regardless of your size.
You can't build scalable video cheaper yourself, and you shouldn't have to try.
Just-in-time encoding
When preparing a video for streaming, the standard practice is to first encode the whole video into a compatible format and file size, as well as smaller size versions for slower networks. Mux instead has built just-in-time encoding, meaning we only create streaming versions of your video when a viewer is going to watch them. This saves on encoding and storage costs, which we pass on to you with lower input and storage prices. This is also how we offer great features like super fast upload-to-playback, on-demand thumbnails, and instant clipping.
High scale
Mux Video powers billions of streams every month across hundreds of millions of videos, which gives us significant economies of scale just to start. Our infrastructure is then purpose-built for video, letting our experts tune every layer of the stack for cost efficiency and performance compared to generic cloud infrastructure, which has to support every kind of file and workload. We blend multiple CDNs plus our own POPs in order to achieve both lower costs and higher performance. All of these things allow us to pass more savings on to you, both generally and with deeper discounts as you scale. Learn more about our volume tiers and discounts.
Smart workflows
Mux is built by people who deeply understand video — not just the tech, but how content lives and breathes in the real world. We know how audience size, engagement patterns, and content life cycles evolve over time, and we bake that knowledge into automated workflows that continuously optimize for cost and efficiency. Some of this happens under the hood, invisible to you. Other times, it shows up clearly in the product — for example, all newly uploaded videos start in cold storage, with up to 60% savings, and are automatically moved back after 30 days of inactivity. You don’t have to think about it — we make smart decisions for you that keep your costs low, especially at scale.
Just-in-time encoding
When preparing a video for streaming, the standard practice is to first encode the whole video into a compatible format and file size, as well as smaller size versions for slower networks. Mux instead has built just-in-time encoding, meaning we only create streaming versions of your video when a viewer is going to watch them. This saves on encoding and storage costs, which we pass on to you with lower input and storage prices. This is also how we offer great features like super fast upload-to-playback, on-demand thumbnails, and instant clipping.
Video + audio upgrades
Other upgrades
No credit card required to start using Mux.