Media infrastructure for your app, behind one API
Give your product upload, encoding, streaming, and sharing without building a pipeline. Drive it all from a typed REST API with scoped keys.
The problem
- Building upload + transcoding + delivery in-house burns months of engineering.
- Stitching together storage, a CDN, an encoder, and a player is fragile and costly.
- You need programmatic control, not a dashboard your users have to log into.
How Outbound helps
Outbound is media infrastructure you call from code. Issue an API key, POST an upload, and get back adaptive streams, share URLs, and signed links — with per-key rate limits, idempotent webhooks, and clear errors. Ship media features in an afternoon instead of a quarter.
What you get
Typed REST API
Upload, encode, generate links, and manage sharing programmatically with a clean, documented API.
Scoped API keys
Issue and revoke per-environment keys with built-in rate limiting and machine-readable errors.
Edge-native
Runs on a global edge network, so uploads and delivery are fast wherever your users are.
Usage-based
Pay for storage and encoding you actually use — no seat fees, no capacity tiers.
The outcome
- Ship media features in hours, not months
- One API for upload, encode, deliver, and share
- Costs that scale with real usage
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