Directions API
Compute precise, compliant, single-vehicle routes with multi-stop support, truck-specific constraints, toll and highway avoidance, and low-latency performance designed for high-throughput logistics applications.
NextBillion.ai's Route Planning API delivers precise, low-latency directions and navigation intelligence built for logistics, fleet management, and mobility platforms. From truck-compliant routing and real-time traffic-aware ETAs to multi-stop sequencing and vehicle-specific constraints, get the routing foundation your operations depend on — without per-call pricing penalties or the scalability ceilings of legacy mapping providers.
A complete suite of routing and navigation APIs engineered for logistics, fleet management, and mobility platforms at any scale.
Compute precise, compliant, single-vehicle routes with multi-stop support, truck-specific constraints, toll and highway avoidance, and low-latency performance designed for high-throughput logistics applications.
Deliver real-time, vehicle-aware turn-by-turn navigation with HGV-compliant routing, departure-time traffic modelling, custom road attribute integration, and support for hazardous cargo and commercial fleets.
Calculate travel times, distances, and ETAs across matrix sizes up to 5,000×5,000 in a single API call — with truck-aware routing, real-time traffic, and margin-protecting per-vehicle pricing.
Generate dispatch-ready multi-stop routes in seconds using 50+ hard and soft constraints, supporting large-scale fleets, time windows, vehicle capacity, and complex regulatory requirements.
Visualize road-network-accurate travel-time and distance reachability polygons for depot planning, territory design, service area analysis, and coverage gap identification across any vehicle type.
Inject custom road attributes — closures, turn restrictions, speed overrides, no-entry zones — directly into every route and ETA calculation without engineering effort or map provider support tickets.
Generic mapping APIs are engineered for consumers, not commercial fleets. NextBillion.ai's Route Planning API is purpose-built for logistics, transportation, and mobility platforms that require truck-compliant routing, massive distance matrix computation, vehicle-specific constraints, and predictable pricing. Whether you're dispatching last-mile couriers, managing long-haul trucking corridors, or building a field service scheduling platform, the API suite delivers sub-second routing intelligence that matches your operational reality — not a sanitized version of it. Per-vehicle and per-order pricing models protect your margins even as order volumes and re-optimization frequency grow.
See how global logistics and mobility businesses cut costs and scale 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."
Built by veterans of Grab's Geo team, NextBillion.ai combines deep routing expertise with enterprise-grade reliability and developer-first flexibility.
Per-vehicle and per-order pricing replaces per-API-call models, keeping costs stable as routing frequency and fleet size grow.
Distance matrix computations up to 5,000×5,000 and 50+ route constraints handle the complexity real logistics operations generate — not sanitized demos.
Dedicated solutions engineers provide hands-on integration support, production onboarding, and ongoing technical guidance around the clock.
Cloud-agnostic on AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure with on-premise Kubernetes deployment for organizations with data residency or private cloud mandates.
The team behind the platform that's optimizing millions of deliveries worldwide.
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.
Getting started requires an API key and a REST API call to the endpoint of your chosen product — Directions, Navigation, or Distance Matrix. Pass origin and destination coordinates as query parameters, specify vehicle type and any constraints (toll avoidance, truck dimensions, waypoints), and receive a JSON response with route geometry, turn-by-turn instructions, distance, and ETA. Full documentation, code samples in multiple languages, and a sandbox environment are available on the NextBillion.ai developer portal.
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