Mux

Mux belongs in the catalog because video is increasingly part of modern product stacks, not just media-company stacks. The official positioning is about video APIs for developers, but the current product story also reaches into platforms, creator tools, SaaS products, and AI workflows that need reliable upload, playback, live delivery, and observability without turning the team into a video infrastructure company. That is the right framing for Mux: it is a systems layer for shipping video capabilities faster, not a generic editor or consumer video app.

It also deserves inclusion because the official pricing documentation is unusually explicit for a usage-based media product. Mux charges by minute across input, storage, and delivery rather than forcing teams into opaque contracts. The docs explain resolution and quality-based price tables, call out add-ons like captions, simulcasting, and DRM, and publish concrete examples such as 6,000 free minutes per month for auto-generated live captions, $0.024 per caption minute after that, $0.020 per simulcast minute per target, and DRM at $100/month plus $0.003 per license. That level of documentation makes Mux much easier to evaluate than many video vendors.