🆚 Cloudflare Stream vs. Mux
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About
Cloudflare Stream is a video-on-demand and live streaming service that provides a unified API to upload, encode, store, and deliver video across 
Cloudflare's global network.
It handles the full media pipeline with automatic encoding to multiple bitrates, adaptive playback up to 1080p, direct user uploads, and access control using signed URLs.
Mux is an API-first video platform built for developers to host, encode, stream, and analyze live and on-demand video.
It provides just-in-time encoding, live streaming with automatic recording for on-demand playback, instant clipping, DRM, captions, transcripts, and multi-language subtitles, an MCP server for AI assistants, and Quality of Experience analytics.
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Pricing
(5,000 streaming minutes) $5+/month
(50,000 streaming minutes) $50+/month
Categories
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
Market share
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Awards
- ⭐ 10th most popular in the United States in the Video Platforms category.
- ⭐ 10th most popular in the United Kingdom in the Video Platforms category.
- ⭐ 10th most popular in Germany in the Video Platforms category.
- 🔥 20th most popular in the United States in the Video Platforms category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
Compare alternatives
Technologies with similar characteristics.
🗃️ About This Data
- We evaluate the popularity of technologies based on the number of websites where we detect their usage.
- Technologies without a detectable web footprint, and those we do not track, are not reflected in the calculated market share.
- This report is based on the analysis of 3,827,731 websites. However, data for Mux is still being collected and reflects a smaller subset of sites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.