Maps API
A logistics-optimized map rendering layer with custom styling, live vehicle overlays, geofence visualizations, and native integration with routing and tracking APIs — purpose-built for dispatch consoles and fleet dashboards.
NextBillion.ai delivers enterprise-grade Maps API solutions built for logistics, fleet management, and mobility platforms that have outgrown the cost unpredictability and rigid limits of Google Maps. From real-time vehicle tracking to geofence automation and custom road attribute control, our API suite gives product and operations teams the geospatial infrastructure to build faster, scale smarter, and pay less per query.
A complete geospatial API platform engineered for logistics, fleet, and mobility builders who need precision, scale, and predictable costs.
A logistics-optimized map rendering layer with custom styling, live vehicle overlays, geofence visualizations, and native integration with routing and tracking APIs — purpose-built for dispatch consoles and fleet dashboards.
Real-time, vehicle-specific turn-by-turn navigation with truck dimension compliance, custom road attribute support, and departure-time traffic intelligence for commercial fleets and driver apps.
Calculate travel times, distances, and ETAs between up to 5,000×5,000 origin-destination pairs in a single call — with truck-aware routing, custom road attributes, and per-vehicle pricing.
Sub-meter accuracy real-time location tracking for every vehicle and field agent, with offline mode, configurable alerts, mileage reporting, and native integration with route optimization workflows.
Define custom virtual boundaries as polygons or corridors, trigger automated real-time events on entry and exit, and power proof-of-delivery workflows, security alerts, and proximity-based dispatch.
Clean and align raw GPS traces to the actual road network, enriching them with speed limits, road attributes, and segment-level data for mileage reporting, driver behavior analysis, and compliance documentation.
Most enterprise logistics platforms hit the same wall: Google Maps pricing scales exponentially with request volume, the 25×25 matrix cap forces costly batching workarounds, and consumer-grade APIs have no concept of truck dimensions, custom road rules, or on-premise data residency. NextBillion.ai's Maps API suite is the purpose-built alternative — offering sub-second response times, matrices up to 5,000×5,000, full custom road attribute control, and predictable per-vehicle or per-order pricing that keeps costs aligned with your operations, not your API call count.
See how global logistics, delivery, and mobility platforms cut costs and scaled operations 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."
Enterprise logistics teams choose NextBillion.ai for the capabilities Google Maps can't offer and the pricing models that actually protect margins at scale.
Per-vehicle and per-order pricing models eliminate the per-call cost explosions that hit logistics platforms during demand spikes and re-optimization cycles.
Process up to 5,000×5,000 origin-destination pairs in a single API call — no batching workarounds, no 25×25 ceiling that standard providers impose.
Dedicated solutions engineers available around the clock, with hands-on integration support and a one-week go-live timeline from trial to production.
Deploy the full Maps API stack within your own Kubernetes environment or private cloud for strict data residency, GDPR, CCPA, and SOC 2 Type II compliance.
The founders and team behind the world's most flexible enterprise mapping platform.
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.
Google Maps API has a free tier limited to $200 of monthly credits, covering roughly 28,000 map loads or 40,000 direction requests. Beyond that threshold, costs scale on a per-call basis, which becomes expensive for logistics platforms with high request volumes, frequent re-optimization cycles, or large distance matrix needs. Enterprise logistics operations routinely exceed these limits, making per-call pricing a significant budget risk.
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