Smart video, surprisingly affordable
Plans
Free
Kick off your video project. No credit card required to get started.
- 100K free monthly delivery minutes
- Up to 10 videos stored
- On-demand videos only
Pay as you go
Build what you need with usage-based pricing. Includes all API features.
- 100K minutes delivered before credits
- No storage limit
- On-demand and live videos
- Access to Mux Robots
- $20 monthly usage credit
Pre-pay
Credit-based plans for growing apps. Includes all features from Pay as you go.
- Launch: $20/mo for $100 in credit
- Scale: $500/mo for $1,000 in credit
Plans include 100K delivery minutes. After the credits are used, usage-based billing applies.
What can you get with $100 credit?
Credit-based plans flex to fit to any project—monthly credits are automatically applied to your usage. Go beyond your credits? Just pay for what you use.
With $100, you could...
- Upload 100 5-minute videos
- Store those 100 videos for the full month
- Stream 182k minutes to your visitors
With $100, you could…
- Upload 100 5-minute videos
- Store those 100 videos for the full month
- Stream 182k minutes to your visitors
Trusted by the best teams
Evolved from embedded video to native video without breaking the budget
Grew from a DIY experiment to cost-efficient, video at high volumes
Migrated from an expensive, all-in-one video platform to Mux-enabled native video
Rebuilt an expensive homegrown video system into affordable, scalable video with Mux
Do you need to migrate?
We’d love to work with you to get you transitioned to better video infrastructure. Let’s talk about your free migration options.
What the minute?
A "minute of video" is simply one minute of your content — which stays consistent regardless of input quality or complexity. We price in minutes, not file size, because it matches with what actually matters (video duration) and lets us optimize your video performance without unpredictable billing surprises.
Oh, and we don’t round up to the nearest minute.
Base Pricing
All video starts here. Whatever workflow you’re building, this is the base starting pricing so Mux can process your videos.
- Input ($/min)
- Starting at Free
- Storage ($/min)
- Starting at $0.0024
Workflows
Build the workflows that matter for your project. Not every project needs delivery, not every project needs AI. Piece together the components that are necessary to build the best experience.
- Video delivery ($/min)
- 100k free minutes / monththen starting at $0.0008
- Mux Robots ($/min)Free until May 15, up to 100M units
- Summarization
- -
- Content moderation
- -
- Ask questions
- -
- Chapter generation
- -
- Caption translation
- -
- Key moments
- -
- Advanced video analytics (Mux Data)
- Free
- Video player (Mux Player)
- Free
- On-demand captions ($/min)
- Free
- Live captions ($/min)
- 6k free minutes / monththen $0.0024
- Content delivery security
- Smartsigned urls, domain & referrer restriction, etc
- Free
- Media-grade DRM
- $100/month+ $0.003/play
- MP4s & static renditions ($/min)
- starting at $0.00075
- Custom domainsstream videos or serve images from your own domain
- $100/month
- Live simulcasting
- $0.020/min/ simulcast target
- Multi-track audio
- Audio-only rates/every additional track
Learn more about upgrades and pricing discounts
Estimate your costs
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Delivery cost is calculated across available resolutions to simulate typical delivery patterns. For example, 1080p video is split evenly between 720p and 1080p, while 4K is split across all four resolutions.
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 infrastructure
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.
Frequently asked questions
Resolution refers to the pixel dimensions of a video (like 720p or 1080p). Higher resolution screens benefit from higher resolution video. Pricing is per minute per month. See docs for more info.
Up to 720p HD
Base price
1080p HD
@ 1.25× base price
2K, 1440p
@ 2× base price
4K, 2160p
@ 4× base price
| Up to 720p HD | 1080p HD | 2K, 1440p | 4K, 2160p | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| File Input ($/min) | Free | Free | Free | Free |
| Storage | $0.0024 | $0.003 | $0.0048 | $0.0096 |
| Delivery | $0.0008 | $0.001 | $0.0016 | $0.0032 |
First 100K minutes free, monthly | ||||
Quality refers to how faithfully the delivered video matches your source at the same resolution. Higher quality uses more bits and increases costs, but can be beneficial for high-production-value videos. Learn more.
Basic
Mux intelligently analyzes video content and automatically applies the right bitrate for efficient streaming. Supports on-demand video only, up to 4K.
Great for social or user-generated content.
Plus
Smart bitrate selection with increased bitrates for higher visual quality. Supports live video up to 1080p, on-demand video up to 4K.
Great for professional or branded content.
Input starting at $0.025/min for 720p
Premium
Smart bitrate selection targeting the highest possible visual quality. Supports live video up to 1080p, on-demand video up to 4K.
Great for studio or cinematic projects.
Input starting at $0.0384/min for 720p
Storage & Delivery 1.5x resolution pricing
AI-generated captions for on-demand videos are available for free in 22 different languages. You can translate captions into 50+ languages using Mux Robots.
Live captions are available in 6 different languages.
Securing your content can range from restricting where it can be watched to blocking screen recording. Choose the level of security that’s right for your content.
Smart security
Get signed URLs, domain restriction, referrer restriction, and more.
Learn more
DRM
Media-grade security. Great for protecting your high-value content.
Learn more
MP4s and other static renditions are often used for background videos on a website or to enable downloading by viewers. Learn more.
Mux Robots hosts AI workflows for your Mux assets. With simple API calls (or directly in the Mux dashboard) you can summarize a video, moderate it, translate captions, generate chapters, find key moments, and much more. If you already have a preferred AI vendor or want to build your own, use @mux/ai. Learn more.
No credit card required to start using Mux.