Mux is built for video and goes much further than Fileboy: live streaming, playback analytics, DRM and a large set of video tooling. If video is the centre of your product, or you need any of those, choose Mux. If you want on-demand video that just plays, from the same service that stores your images and files, and a price that does not move with every minute watched, Fileboy is the simpler fit.
A short comparison of the parts most people choose between. We have not quoted Mux prices, because they change. Check their pricing page and compare with ours.
Check current prices: Mux pricing · Fileboy pricing
| Fileboy | Mux | |
|---|---|---|
| Upload and encoding | Upload the original from your server or the dashboard. Fileboy encodes it in the background at sizes up to 1080p and sends a webhook when it is ready. | Direct uploads and an encoding pipeline built for video, with more control over it. |
| Streaming | Adaptive HLS and DASH for on-demand video, with an automatic poster image and seek-preview thumbnails (WebVTT and a JSON storyboard). | Adaptive streaming for on-demand and live video, and tooling for thumbnails and previews. |
| Live streaming | Not supported. | Supported. |
| Players | One web component and an iframe embed, or any HLS or DASH player. Your colours, logo and controls are set once in the dashboard and applied to the watch page and embeds. | Its own player plus integrations for many other players. |
| Webhooks | Signed webhooks for uploads, ready, failed and deleted videos, retried with backoff, with a delivery log and an email when an endpoint keeps failing and when it recovers. | Webhooks for video and live stream events, retried when your endpoint does not answer. |
| Captions | Upload a caption file per language. Fileboy does not create captions. | Caption support, including tooling beyond uploading your own files. |
| Playback security | Open by default. Turn on signed URLs for an app and every video needs an expiring URL signed on your server. No DRM. | Signed playback and further protection options. |
| Analytics | A play count and last played time per video. | A dedicated video analytics product. |
| Video metadata | A description for the watch page, private tags and your own key-value data. Filter the video list by tag or metadata, and get them back in every webhook. | A title, a creator ID and an external ID, plus a free-form passthrough string, returned with the asset and in webhooks. |
| Images and other files | The same service and the same ID scheme handle images, files and video. | Focused on video. |
| Pricing model | Flat monthly price per app, with a video allowance on each plan. | Usage-based pricing that follows how much video you encode, store and stream. |
Reviewed November 2026. Products change, so check Mux's own documentation for current details. Spotted something out of date? Tell us.
Only for simple on-demand video. Fileboy has no live streaming, no DRM and far less analytics. If you use those, stay with Mux.
Upload the original files to Fileboy, which encodes them again, then swap the player or embed in your app for the Fileboy player. Fileboy video ids and URLs are different, so update anything that stores a Mux id.
Fileboy streams up to 1080p. It does not do 4K. If you need higher resolutions, a dedicated video platform is the better choice.
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