Directions API
Compute precise, compliant, single-vehicle routes with multi-stop support, toll and highway avoidance, and vehicle-specific constraints. Engineered for high-scale, low-latency logistics and transportation platforms.
The NextBillion.ai Directions API delivers precise, compliant, and context-aware routing for a single vehicle — from simple A-to-B navigation to complex multi-stop journeys. Whether you're routing delivery vans, heavy trucks, or field agents, get low-latency, vehicle-specific directions that respect real-world road constraints, toll preferences, and regulatory requirements every time.
Explore the full suite of routing and navigation capabilities built around the NextBillion.ai Directions API.
Compute precise, compliant, single-vehicle routes with multi-stop support, toll and highway avoidance, and vehicle-specific constraints. Engineered for high-scale, low-latency logistics and transportation platforms.
Deliver real-time, turn-by-turn navigation for commercial vehicles with HGV-compliant routing, departure-time traffic intelligence, and custom road attribute integration for driver applications.
Inject custom road attributes — closures, turn restrictions, speed overrides, no-parking zones — directly into every route calculation without engineering effort or map provider tickets.
Calculate real-time and historical travel times, distances, and ETAs between up to 5,000 x 5,000 origin-destination pairs in a single API call for fleet assignment and route pre-processing.
Generate dispatch-ready multi-stop routes in seconds using 50+ hard and soft constraints. Purpose-built for large-scale last-mile delivery, field service, and specialty logistics operations.
Visualize computed directions and routes on fully customizable, logistics-optimized map canvases with live vehicle overlays, geofence boundaries, and stop markers for dispatch consoles.
Pass your start coordinate, end coordinate, and any intermediate stops as waypoints in a single API request. The Directions API supports multi-stop journeys, enabling complete route computation for delivery drivers, field agents, and long-haul operators managing complex stop sequences.
See how logistics and transportation teams use the Directions API to cut costs and improve delivery performance.
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"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."
NextBillion.ai is built from the ground up for logistics and transportation teams that need routing intelligence that actually matches how their operations work.
Route trucks, vans, and motorcycles with dimension-specific constraints — no car-routing assumptions that fail commercial fleets on restricted roads.
Per-vehicle and per-order pricing models replace per-call billing, so demand spikes and re-optimization cycles never translate into budget overruns.
Low-latency routing engine delivers directions in sub-second response times, purpose-built for high-throughput production logistics platforms at scale.
Dedicated solutions engineering support around the clock, with API integration going live within a week including trial onboarding and data testing.
The founders behind the Directions API and the platform powering global logistics.
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 NextBillion.ai Directions API computes precise, road-accurate routes for a single vehicle between an origin and destination, with support for multiple waypoints along the way. It returns turn-by-turn route geometry, distance, and ETA in real time, incorporating traffic conditions, vehicle-specific constraints, and custom road attributes set by your operations team.
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