FFmpeg API Cloud
Hi HN — I built FFmpeg API Cloud, a simple API for running FFmpeg and FFprobe jobs over HTTP. It lets you use FFmpeg in your app without setting up uploads, queues, workers, storage, webhooks, or output delivery yourself. You can upload a file or pass a public URL, submit a job with `ffmpegArgs`, then poll for completion or receive a webhook and fetch the outputs. There’s no subscription, and new users get free credits to try it. Would love feedback on the API design, developer experience, and pricing model.
FFmpeg API Cloud launched on April 21, 2026 with 3 votes, #2,709 of 21,248 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches.
What it does
FFmpeg API Cloud is a hosted FFmpeg API for video processing, media conversion, thumbnails, compression, audio extraction, and FFprobe metadata.
Build video processing, media conversion, thumbnails, compression, and audio extraction with a hosted FFmpeg API. The FFmpeg API is built for real production workloads with usage-based pricing. curl -X POST https://ffmpeg-api.cloud/v1/jobs \ -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -d '{ "mode": "raw", "inputs": { "video": { "type": "url", "url": "https://example.com/video.mp4" } }, "outputs": { "output": { "fileName": "output.mp4" } }, "ffmpegArgs": [ "-y", "-i", "{{video}}", "-vf", "scale=1280:-1", "-c:v", "libx264", "-preset", "medium", "-crf", "23", "{{output}}" ] }' Response { "jobId": "job_01hxyz...", "status": "queued", "runtimeSeconds": 0,…from ffmpeg-api.cloud
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