Maps API
Foundational geospatial visualization layer for building logistics dashboards, dispatch consoles, and customer-facing tracking interfaces with custom styling, live overlays, and native integration across the full NextBillion.ai platform.
NextBillion.ai delivers a comprehensive suite of mapping and routing APIs purpose-built for developers powering logistics, fleet, and mobility platforms. From real-time navigation and distance matrices to geofencing and route optimization, our enterprise-grade APIs offer predictable pricing, sub-second latency, and the flexibility consumer-grade mapping platforms simply cannot match.
A full-stack mapping API platform covering routing, navigation, tracking, geofencing, and optimization for logistics and mobility builders.
Foundational geospatial visualization layer for building logistics dashboards, dispatch consoles, and customer-facing tracking interfaces with custom styling, live overlays, and native integration across the full NextBillion.ai platform.
Real-time, vehicle-specific turn-by-turn navigation with truck-compliant routing, hazardous material awareness, custom road attribute integration, and departure-time-based traffic modelling for commercial fleets.
Compute travel times, distances, and ETAs across matrices up to 5,000×5,000 in a single call. Supports truck-specific routing, custom road attributes, and predictable per-vehicle or per-order pricing.
Generate dispatch-ready multi-stop routes with 50+ hard and soft constraints in seconds. Supports large-scale fleets, specialty logistics, seasonal demand spikes, and fixed monthly pricing models.
Sub-meter real-time location tracking with offline mode, configurable alerts, mileage reporting, and native integration with geofencing, route optimization, and dispatch workflows for complete fleet visibility.
Define, manage, and monitor virtual geographic boundaries with real-time event triggers, proximity-based dispatch, territory routing, restricted zone enforcement, and customer engagement automation.
NextBillion.ai's developer platform goes far beyond standard map tiles. Every API is engineered for the operational demands of logistics, fleet, and mobility builders — offering truck-aware routing, 5,000×5,000 distance matrices, on-premise deployment, and per-vehicle pricing that eliminates the cost unpredictability of per-call models. Whether you're embedding navigation into a driver app, powering a dispatch console, or solving last-mile routing for thousands of daily orders, the platform delivers the precision, scalability, and integration depth your product requires.
See how leading logistics, delivery, and mobility platforms unlock efficiency with NextBillion.ai APIs.
"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."
We built the mapping API platform we wished had existed — purpose-designed for developers and operators who need enterprise-grade capabilities without enterprise-grade billing surprises.
Per-vehicle and per-order pricing replaces per-call billing, keeping costs stable even as API usage scales.
Distance matrices up to 5,000×5,000 and 50+ routing constraints handle real operational complexity without batching workarounds.
Custom road attributes, on-premise Kubernetes deployment, and swappable map data sources tailor the platform to your exact operational rules.
24×7 hands-on support from solutions engineers ensures fast integration, live in under a week, with dedicated onboarding throughout.
The team behind the platform redefining logistics mapping technology.
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 best mapping API for developers depends on the use case. For logistics, fleet, and mobility applications, NextBillion.ai consistently outperforms consumer-grade APIs like Google Maps on three dimensions: pricing (per-vehicle rather than per-call), routing depth (50+ constraints, truck-aware, 5,000×5,000 distance matrices), and customization (custom road attributes, on-premise deployment, swappable map data). For developers building production-grade operational systems, these differences are decisive.
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