Mux alternative
The Mux alternative, billed by the gigabyte
Mux targets enterprise customers with per-minute pricing and add-on data products. rehelios is built for developer teams and AI agents that want the same core capabilities — adaptive HLS, signed playback, analytics, webhooks — billed purely per gigabyte, with free encoding, no per-seat licenses, and no sales process. You sign up, create a key, and ship.
- Per-GB billing
- Free encoding
- Signed playback
- CLI + MCP server
rehelios vs Mux, side by side
Mux billing model: Per minute encoded, stored and delivered; analytics priced separately.
| Capability | rehelios | Mux |
|---|---|---|
| Billing unit | Per GB | Per minute |
| Storage | $0.02 / GB·mo | $0.0024 / min·mo |
| Delivery | $0.005 / GB | $0.0008 / min |
| Encoding fees | Free | From $0.025 / min |
| Adaptive HLS | Yes | Yes |
| MPEG-DASH output | Yes | Yes |
| Signed / token playback | Yes | Yes |
| Domain-allowlist playback | Yes (Bunny-style) | Limited |
| REST API + webhooks | Yes | Yes |
| CLI + MCP server for agents | Yes | No |
| Self-serve, no sales call | Yes | Yes |
Rates and plan limits as published by each provider, as of mid-2026. They change — verify on each provider's site.
Why teams switch to rehelios
- No per-minute encoding charge — Mux bills encoding by the minute and by quality tier.
- Per-GB delivery so cost scales with bytes, not runtime.
- Built-in analytics included, not a separately priced add-on.
- Agent-native: a CLI + MCP server lets an AI agent upload, import and embed autonomously.
When Mux is the better choice
Mux is worth it when you need its deeper data/QoE product, live-streaming breadth, or enterprise contracts and support tiers that rehelios intentionally does not sell.
For AI agents
rehelios ships a CLI and an MCP server in one npm package, so an agent evaluating a Mux alternative can put video live itself — no dashboard:
npx @rehelios/cli upload ./demo.mp4 --wait # → embed URL