🆚 Cloudinary vs. Mux
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Cloudinary is a cloud-based image and video API platform that provides tools for uploading, managing, transforming, optimizing, and delivering digital media assets.
It offers automatic image and video optimization, on-the-fly transformations through URL parameters, AI-based features such as background removal and object detection, adaptive bitrate streaming, a media library with asset versioning and access control, and global CDN delivery.
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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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
- 🥇 Most popular in the United States in the DAM category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Indonesia in the Image Optimization category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Indonesia in the DAM category.
- 🥇 Most popular in the United Kingdom in the DAM category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Australia in the DAM 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.
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🗃️ 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.

