🆚 Mux vs. YouTube

Statistics for Mux are still being collected and do not yet reflect its full market share.

Mux

YouTube

Type

Video platform

About

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.

YouTube is the world's largest online video platform and social media service owned by Google that lets users watch, comment on, and upload videos, as well as subscribe to channels.

It supports high-resolution video hosting up to 8K, live streaming with real-time chat and monetization tools, algorithmic recommendations, Shorts for vertical videos, customizable playlists, subtitles, and paid channel memberships.

Headquarters

San Francisco, California, United States

Mountain View, California, United States

Website

mux.com #529,944

youtube.com #4

Pricing

Free tier ✔️ Up to 10 videos stored, 100K delivery minutes + 100K Mux Robots units per month

Pay as you go Storage $0.0024+/minute
Video delivery $0.0008/minute
Mux Robots $0.0003+/minute

Free version ✔️ Ad-supported

Premium Lite
(ad-free non-music videos) $8.99

Premium
(ad-free, offline videos, and background play) Student $8.99/month
Individual $15.99/month
Family
(5 members) $26.99/month

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

Total websites

Market share

Video Platforms

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

United States

Germany

United Kingdom

Japan

Spain

France

Italy

India

Brazil

Netherlands

Awards

🔥 20th most popular in the United States in the Video Platforms category.

🥇 Most popular in the United States in the Video Platforms category.
🥇 Most popular in Germany in the Video Platforms category.
🥇 Most popular in the United Kingdom in the Video Platforms category.
🥇 Most popular in Japan in the Video Platforms category.
🥇 Most popular in Spain in the Video Platforms category.

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Business

Marketing/Merchandising

Online Shopping

Education/Reference

Blogs/Wiki

Entertainment

Internet Services

Travel

Health

Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name

Rank

#186

#994

#2,267

#2,831

#5,395

Name

Rank