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  "slug": "mux",
  "name": "Mux",
  "url": "https://mux.com",
  "cat": "media",
  "group": "back",
  "tagline": "Video API — encode, host, stream",
  "price": "Free: 100K delivery min/mo, 10 videos stored. Then storage from $0.0024/min and delivery from $0.0008/min at 720p (1080p 1.25x, 4K 4x). Encoding free on Basic; player and analytics free",
  "tier": "mixed",
  "pick": false,
  "what": "Video infrastructure API: POST a source file or push RTMP, get back adaptive-bitrate HLS, thumbnails, captions and a player. Bills per minute of video stored and delivered rather than per GB. Includes Mux Data, a QoE analytics product tracking startup time and rebuffering.",
  "why": "The fastest path from a raw MP4 to a production-grade adaptive stream — one API call and encoding is handled. Per-minute billing is predictable for editorial video where you know runtime but not viewer bandwidth.",
  "warn": "Per-minute delivery scales with resolution — 4K costs 4x the 720p rate — so one popular 4K feature can dominate the bill. Storage bills per stored minute indefinitely, not per GB.",
  "install": "npm i @mux/mux-node",
  "category": {
    "key": "media",
    "name": "Images, video & files",
    "desc": "Upload, transform, store, deliver. Transformation billing is the hidden cost.",
    "group": "back",
    "groupName": "Give it a backend"
  },
  "freshness": null,
  "health": {
    "ok": true,
    "status_code": 200,
    "final_url": "https://www.mux.com/",
    "checked_at": "2026-08-18T17:12:38.21+00:00"
  },
  "corrected_at": null,
  "upstream_changed_at": null
}