Route Optimization API
Generate dispatch-ready, multi-stop delivery routes in seconds with support for 50+ hard and soft constraints — time windows, vehicle capacity, driver shifts, and priority parcels — at predictable fixed-fee pricing.
Courier and parcel operations run on margins that punish inefficiency. NextBillion.ai's Route Optimization API delivers dispatch-ready multi-stop routes in seconds, supports 50+ constraints, and scales with your order volume — without per-API-call pricing that erodes profitability as you grow. From last-mile parcel sorting to dynamic on-demand re-routing, it's the routing intelligence your fleet depends on.
A complete API suite purpose-built for courier and parcel delivery operations — from route planning and dispatch to live tracking and distance computation.
Generate dispatch-ready, multi-stop delivery routes in seconds with support for 50+ hard and soft constraints — time windows, vehicle capacity, driver shifts, and priority parcels — at predictable fixed-fee pricing.
Compute real-time and historical travel times and distances between up to 5,000 origins and 5,000 destinations in a single API call — the cost matrix that powers every routing and dispatch decision in your operation.
Automate the planning-to-execution handoff by pushing optimized routes directly to driver apps and fleet management systems the moment optimization is complete, eliminating manual re-entry and dispatch delay.
Monitor every courier vehicle in real time with sub-meter location precision, configurable speeding and deviation alerts, offline tracking in low-connectivity zones, and automatic ETA recalculation as conditions change.
Assign parcels to the right driver instantly using dynamic parameters — driver preferences, shift timings, location familiarity, and order priority — with real-time reassignment when plans change mid-shift.
Deliver turn-by-turn, vehicle-specific navigation to courier drivers with real-time and historical traffic intelligence, multi-stop guidance, toll and road-type avoidance, and custom map attribute support.
Feed your daily parcel order list into the API via REST, TMS integration, or CSV import. Define the constraints that govern your operation: vehicle load capacities, delivery time windows, driver shift hours, multi-depot start locations, and priority stop rules.
See how courier and parcel delivery businesses cut costs and lift on-time performance with NextBillion.ai.
"I admire NextBillion.ai's fast response and friendly manners whenever we need professional support in geospatial data processing. They have delivered a valuable service and support to our company that we appreciate."
"By substantially reducing the number of developer hours spent on scheduling, NextBillion.ai's MVRP and large Distance Matrix API have helped us improve our operational efficiency and increase our cost savings significantly!"
"Support very good and friendly. Nextbillion provide the maps distance calculation with the low price but high value service to us. Nextbilions has help us reduce the cost and provide the same service as google!"
"Rich in features, light in the pocket. NextBillion.ai is solving the complex processes of the best route for the right vehicle."
"We were unhappy with the pricing from big players in this space and needed a scalable alternative that offered customizability. NextBillion.ai's Maptiles API was exactly what we were looking for. For companies in the ferry and nautical map domain, we'd highly recommend NextBillion.ai."
"I admire NextBillion.ai's fast response and friendly manners whenever we need professional support in geospatial data processing. They have delivered a valuable service and support to our company that we appreciate."
"By substantially reducing the number of developer hours spent on scheduling, NextBillion.ai's MVRP and large Distance Matrix API have helped us improve our operational efficiency and increase our cost savings significantly!"
"Support very good and friendly. Nextbillion provide the maps distance calculation with the low price but high value service to us. Nextbilions has help us reduce the cost and provide the same service as google!"
"Rich in features, light in the pocket. NextBillion.ai is solving the complex processes of the best route for the right vehicle."
"We were unhappy with the pricing from big players in this space and needed a scalable alternative that offered customizability. NextBillion.ai's Maptiles API was exactly what we were looking for. For companies in the ferry and nautical map domain, we'd highly recommend NextBillion.ai."
"I admire NextBillion.ai's fast response and friendly manners whenever we need professional support in geospatial data processing. They have delivered a valuable service and support to our company that we appreciate."
"By substantially reducing the number of developer hours spent on scheduling, NextBillion.ai's MVRP and large Distance Matrix API have helped us improve our operational efficiency and increase our cost savings significantly!"
"Support very good and friendly. Nextbillion provide the maps distance calculation with the low price but high value service to us. Nextbilions has help us reduce the cost and provide the same service as google!"
"Rich in features, light in the pocket. NextBillion.ai is solving the complex processes of the best route for the right vehicle."
"We were unhappy with the pricing from big players in this space and needed a scalable alternative that offered customizability. NextBillion.ai's Maptiles API was exactly what we were looking for. For companies in the ferry and nautical map domain, we'd highly recommend NextBillion.ai."
Built by logistics insiders who experienced the limits of generic mapping platforms firsthand — and designed to solve the problems that matter to courier and parcel operations.
Per-vehicle or per-order pricing means seasonal parcel volume spikes and re-optimization cycles never translate into surprise API bills.
Model the real complexity of courier operations — time windows, multi-depot starts, load capacity, driver breaks, and truck-dimension compliance — in a single API call.
Dedicated solutions engineers are available around the clock, ensuring fast onboarding and responsive support for courier platforms operating across time zones.
A 99.9% uptime SLA, sub-second response times, and cloud-agnostic deployment — including on-premise — gives parcel delivery platforms the infrastructure dependability they require.
Co-founders with deep roots in ride-hailing, logistics, and geo-intelligence at global scale.
Co-Founder
Ajay Bulusu is a co-founder of NextBillion.ai, bringing deep expertise in geospatial technology and large-scale location platform engineering. His journey began in 2017 as part of Grab's pioneering Geo team, where he helped build the location infrastructure underpinning one of Southeast Asia's largest mobility and logistics platforms. That experience revealed how critical — and how underserved — accurate, flexible location technology was for real-world operations. Driven by a mission to democratize sophisticated location intelligence, Ajay co-launched NextBillion.ai in 2020. Under his technical leadership, the platform has scaled to serve 150+ businesses globally, optimize over 10.9 million deliveries and field tasks, and deliver more than $11 million in documented cost savings to customers.
Co-Founder
Gaurav Bubna drives product innovation at NextBillion.ai, bringing a proven track record of building successful products from scratch across ride-hailing, food delivery, and logistics. Before co-founding NextBillion.ai, Gaurav held product leadership roles at Grab, Ola, and Morgan Stanley — organizations where location technology and operational efficiency are existential. His time on Grab's Geo team alongside Ajay and Shaolin crystallized the vision: logistics and field service businesses needed enterprise-grade location intelligence without prohibitive per-call pricing. Since launching NextBillion.ai in 2020, Gaurav has led the product evolution that has helped the platform navigate over 557 million miles and raise $34.25M in venture capital from investors including Lightspeed and Microsoft's M12.
Co-Founder
Shaolin Zheng is a co-founder of NextBillion.ai, contributing deep technical expertise in geospatial systems and scalable mapping infrastructure. Like his co-founders, Shaolin's formative experience building location technology for Grab's Geo team gave him firsthand insight into the operational gaps that generic mapping solutions leave unaddressed — particularly for field service and logistics businesses operating at scale. His engineering perspective shapes NextBillion.ai's core philosophy: location technology must be customizable, cost-predictable, and production-reliable. The platform he helped build now powers GPS tracking, route optimization, and field service intelligence for over 150 businesses worldwide, with on-premise deployment options and SOC 2 Type II and ISO/IEC 27001:2013 certifications ensuring enterprise-grade security.
The API supports hard and soft time window constraints at the individual stop level, allowing you to specify the earliest and latest acceptable delivery time for each parcel. The optimizer sequences stops to maximize on-time performance across the entire route while respecting vehicle capacity and driver shift limits. Time window violations can be penalized rather than strictly excluded, giving you control over how the solver balances competing constraints.
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