# Mux **Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/mux-com/ **Website:** https://www.mux.com/ **APIs profiled:** 36 Mux is a video infrastructure platform that gives developers an end-to-end API for ingesting, encoding, storing, delivering, and analyzing video. The platform spans Mux Video (on-demand and live streaming), Mux Data (quality-of-experience analytics), Mux Robots (AI workflows for captions, chapters, summarization, and moderation), and Mux Player (drop-in playback components). Mux exposes a unified REST API at api.mux.com plus delivery hosts at stream.mux.com, image.mux.com, and stats.mux.com, backed by official SDKs in Node, Python, Ruby, PHP, Go, and Elixir, a CLI, and player integrations across web, iOS, Android, Roku, and major HTML5 players. ## Kin Score — 75.8 / 100 (exemplar) Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (-1.9 from 77.7). | Facet | Score | |---|---| | Discoverability | 57.4 | | Contract Quality | 70.0 | | Governance | 60.6 | | Contract Governance | 60.6 | | Operational Transparency | 78.9 | | Developer Ergonomics | 83.3 | | Commercial Clarity | 92.1 | | Access Clarity | 92.1 | ## Agent readiness — 49.1 (agent-ready) | Dimension | Value | |---|---| | Spec Presence | yes | | Agentic Access | derived | | Reversibility Documented | documented | | MCP Server | no | | Auth Clarity | yes | | Idempotency | no | | Error Semantics | verified | | OpenAPI Examples | verified | | Rate Limit Signal | documented | | Event Surface Described | yes | | Agent Skills | no | | Well Known Catalog | no | | Consent Identity | no | | Agent Card | no | | Dry Run Mode | no | ## Access Freemium · Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: freemium, trial: no (confidence: high). ## APIs (36) - **Mux Webhooks** — Mux Webhooks deliver signed HTTP callbacks for asset, upload, live stream, and robots job lifecycle events (video.asset.created, video.asset.ready, video.live_stream.active, vid... - **Mux Animated Images API** — APIs for retrieving animated images from videos hosted using Mux. - **Mux Annotations API** — Annotations allow you to add notes at a specific datetime to view in the Mux Data dashboard. - **Mux Ask Questions API** — Ask questions about a video and get structured answers. - **Mux Assets API** — An asset refers to a piece of media content that is stored or is being live streamed through the Mux system. An asset always has a duration and one or more tracks (audio, video,... - **Mux Captions and Transcripts API** — APIs for retrieving captions and transcripts from videos hosted using Mux that have had captions generated automatically. - **Mux Delivery Usage API** — The Delivery Usage API allows you to get delivery/streaming usage details for each asset and across all assets. Delivery usage details are aggregated every hour at the top of th... - **Mux Dimensions API** — Dimensions are the types of metadata that can be collected for a video view. Some dimensions are collected automatically based on the playback or device, such as the viewer's Co... - **Mux Direct Uploads API** — Direct upload allows you to push assets directly to Mux storage instead of needing to go through your own first. When you create a new direct upload, we'll give you back a signe... - **Mux DRM Configurations API** — DRM Configurations allow you to adjust the security level of content delivered through Mux Video's Digital Rights Management (DRM) feature. - **Mux Edit Captions API** — Edit an existing caption track with find-and-replace edits and optional profanity censoring. This workflow is currently in beta. - **Mux Errors API** — Playback errors are tracked and aggregated by Mux Data. Errors can be listed by the API, which contains data about the error code, message, and how often the error occurred. - **Mux Exports API** — Exports allow you to download the daily CSV files that are generated from the video views that occurred in the previous day. Please contact [support](mailto:support@mux.com) for... - **Mux Filters API** — Deprecated, please refer to the Dimensions APIs. - **Mux Find Key Moments API** — Identify key moments in a video. - **Mux Generate Chapters API** — Generate chapters for a video. - **Mux Incidents API** — Incidents occur when an anomaly alert is triggered in Mux Data. The Incidents API provides operations related to the raising and managing of alerting incidents. - **Mux Jobs API** — List and cancel jobs across all workflows. - **Mux Live Streams API** — A Live Stream represents a unique live stream of video being pushed to Mux. It includes configuration details (a Stream Key) for live broadcasting software/hardware and a Playba... - **Mux Metrics API** — Historical metrics are used for tracking KPIs, diagnosing issues, and measuring viewers' quality of experience. Metrics are calculated using the video views that have been compl... - **Mux Moderate API** — Analyze a video for inappropriate content. - **Mux Monitoring API** — Monitoring metrics are used for operational monitoring of a video platform. The metrics are aggregated in five second intervals, across the views that are currently being watche... - **Mux Playback ID API** — Operations related to the manipulation of playback IDs, through which users are able to stream videos and live streams from Mux. - **Mux Playback Restrictions API** — Playback Restrictions allows you to set additional rules for playing videos. You can set the domains/hostnames allowed to play your videos. For instance, viewers can play videos... - **Mux Real-Time API** — The Mux Data Real-time API has been deprecated, please refer to the Mux Data `Monitoring` APIs which provide the same functionality. Mux Data Monitoring metrics are available to... - **Mux Signing Keys API** — Signing keys are used to sign JSON Web Tokens (JWTs) for securing certain requests, such as secure playback URLs and access to real-time viewer counts in Mux Data. **One signing... - **Mux Storyboards API** — APIs for retrieving storyboards, sprites, and metadata about the storyboards from videos hosted using Mux. - **Mux Streaming API** — APIs for streaming video content via HLS and MP4 with customizable playback options. - **Mux Summarize API** — Generate a title, description, and tags for a video. - **Mux Thumbnails API** — APIs for retrieving still thumbnails from videos hosted using Mux. - **Mux Transcription Vocabularies API** — Transcription Vocabularies allows you to provide collections of phrases like proper nouns, technical jargon, and uncommon words as part of captioning workflows. When using Auto-... - **Mux Translate Captions API** — Translate captions from one language to another. - **Mux URL Signing Keys API** — A URL signing key is used as the secret when signing any Mux URL. Mux requires a [JSON Web Token](https://jwt.io/) as the value of the token query parameter. The token query par... - **Mux Utilities API** — Collection of utility methods for using Mux APIs. There's only one thing in here right now, maybe there will be more later. - **Mux Video Views API** — An individual video view tracked by Mux Data. For the full list of properties for each view please refer to the table of data fields in the [Export raw video view data guide](ht... - **Mux View and Viewer Counts API** — API for retrieving the real-time count of views and viewers based on ID as collected by Mux Data. ## Agentic access (1) - **Mux Com Agentic Access** — 124 operations · 52 acting · 2 human-in-the-loop ## Security (4) - **Mux Com Authentication** — http · 2 schemes - **Mux Com Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC - **Mux Com Vulnerability Disclosure** — security.txt · contact published - **Mux Com Trust Center** — SOC 2, ISO 27001, ISO 27017, ISO 27018, PCI DSS, HIPAA, FedRAMP, GDPR, CSA STAR ## Plans (1) - **Mux Com Plans Pricing** ## Use cases (7) - **User-Generated Content Platforms** — Power video upload, transcoding, and playback for social, community, and creator apps. - **AI Video Generation Platforms** — Host and deliver outputs from generative video models with analytics on viewer behavior. - **Live Events and Broadcast** — Ingest concerts, sports, gaming streams, and conferences via RTMP/SRT with simulcasting. - **E-Commerce Video** — Embed product, demo, and shoppable video into storefronts with low-latency live shopping. - **Education and Training** — Course platforms and LMS providers using on-demand and live with captions and chapters. - **Enterprise Communications** — Internal town halls, webinars, and corporate communications with DRM and access controls. - **Media and Publishing** — News organizations and publishers delivering editorial video with quality analytics. ## Tags Video Infrastructure, Video Streaming, Live Streaming, Video Analytics, Video AI, Encoding --- Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/mux-com/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.