Live streaming made easy.

Live streaming is complex especially when you anticipate growth on both sides of your platform, from the number of streams to viewers. Our live streaming API takes care of this with features that make it easy to build user-generated video live into your app.

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Why use Mux?
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Developer-friendly APIs

With clean documentation and straightforward onboarding, you don’t have to be a video expert to build live streaming into your web or native applications.

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Worry-free scaling

Whether you're serving a few dozen streams or a few million, we grow with you. We handle scaling so you don't have to.

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Faster time to market

What took months now takes minutes. Let us do the technical heavy lifting and take weeks off your launch time.

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Future proof your video stack

New devices, new formats, no problem. We’ll worry about building video infrastructure that stays ahead of the curve so you don’t have to.

Get started in minutes, not months.

STEP 1

POST a video to the Mux Video API.

POST the URL of any video file using the Mux API. Mux will ingest the file, create a video asset, and prepare it for streaming.

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STEP 2

Stream it anywhere.

Just add the Playback ID to stream.mux.com and you’re ready to integrate with your video player.

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Build the best live experience for your users.

With Mux, users can stream from any device and "go live" at the push of a button with an infrastructure that scales to handle thousands of concurrent live streamers and millions of viewers. We automatically detect the closest endpoint for easy configuration, and offer adaptive bitrate delivery with live cloud video encoding.

From our customers

“Mux has designed an extremely elegant interface that allows us to manage our streaming as well as diagnose issues on an individual account basis. With their help, we were able to move our streaming off of YouTube. I highly recommend working with Mux!”

Shiv Gaglani Co-founder & CEO

“Using the API is accelerating our development by a lot. The API is simple, and we know that the Mux team has incredibly deep experience with transcoding pipelines and streaming optimization, so we don't have to worry about any of that.”

Kwindla Hultman Kramer, Co-founder

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