Dispatch API for Developers

Build intelligent, automated dispatch workflows with NextBillion.ai's developer-ready APIs. From real-time driver assignment and route dispatch to live tracking and dynamic reassignment, our platform gives engineering teams the programmatic control to eliminate manual handoffs, reduce dispatch latency, and keep every vehicle moving on the optimal route — at production scale.

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Our Dispatch API Services

A complete suite of developer APIs to automate driver assignment, route dispatch, live tracking, and dynamic reassignment at scale.

Route Dispatch API

Automate the delivery of optimized, dispatch-ready routes directly to driver apps and fleet systems the moment planning is complete — eliminating manual handoffs and reducing dispatch time from minutes to seconds.

Driver Assignment API

Assign drivers to tasks instantly using flexible dispatch logic, smart 1:1 matching, and dynamic real-time reassignment — factoring in driver preferences, shift timings, location familiarity, and order priority.

Live Tracking API

Gain real-time visibility into every vehicle and field agent with sub-meter accuracy. Supports offline tracking, configurable alerts, and closed-loop integration with route optimization and dispatch workflows.

Route Optimization API

Generate dispatch-ready, multi-stop routes in seconds with support for 50+ hard and soft constraints — capacity, time windows, vehicle type, shift hours — optimized for cost, time, and operational compliance.

Geofencing API

Define virtual geographic boundaries and trigger automated dispatch actions — proof-of-delivery, arrival alerts, territory-based order routing — the moment a driver or vehicle crosses a boundary.

Distance Matrix API

Calculate real-time travel times, distances, and ETAs between up to 5,000 origins and 5,000 destinations in a single call — providing the foundational routing intelligence that powers accurate driver-to-task matching.

End-to-end dispatch API workflow diagram showing order ingestion, route optimization, driver assignment, and live tracking steps

How the Dispatch API Workflow Works End-to-End

Ingest Orders and Calculate the Distance Matrix

Feed incoming orders, service tasks, or ride requests into the Distance Matrix API to compute real-time ETAs and distances between all available drivers and pending tasks — the cost matrix that drives every downstream assignment decision.

Cluster and Pre-Process Geospatial Workloads

Optimize Routes with Your Operational Constraints

Assign Drivers and Dispatch Routes Programmatically

Monitor Live and Trigger Dynamic Reassignment

Trusted By 150+ Businesses

Success Stories

See how logistics platforms, delivery networks, and fleet operators have transformed dispatch operations with NextBillion.ai.

"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!"

Carson Stevens
Carson Stevens

"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."

"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!"

Chi Hwe Teo

"Rich in features, light in the pocket. NextBillion.ai is solving the complex processes of the best route for the right vehicle."

Micko Jel Dela Rosa
Micko Jel Dela Rosa

"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."

Yantisa Akhadi
Yantisa Akhadi

"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!"

Carson Stevens
Carson Stevens

"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."

"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!"

Chi Hwe Teo

"Rich in features, light in the pocket. NextBillion.ai is solving the complex processes of the best route for the right vehicle."

Micko Jel Dela Rosa
Micko Jel Dela Rosa

"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."

Yantisa Akhadi
Yantisa Akhadi

"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!"

Carson Stevens
Carson Stevens

"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."

"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!"

Chi Hwe Teo

"Rich in features, light in the pocket. NextBillion.ai is solving the complex processes of the best route for the right vehicle."

Micko Jel Dela Rosa
Micko Jel Dela Rosa

"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."

Yantisa Akhadi
Yantisa Akhadi
The NextBillion.ai Difference

Why Choose NextBillion.ai for Dispatch APIs?

Built by logistics technology veterans, our dispatch API suite is engineered for the scale, flexibility, and cost predictability that modern operations platforms demand.

Production-Ready Scale

Sub-second response times and a 99.9% uptime SLA backed by contract — engineered for high-throughput dispatch environments.

Predictable Pricing

Per-vehicle or per-order pricing replaces punishing per-call models, so demand spikes and re-optimization cycles never blow your budget.

Hands-On Engineering Support

24x7 access to NextBillion.ai's solutions engineering team ensures fast integration, data testing, and production go-live within days.

Flexible Deployment Options

Deploy on AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, or on-premise within your own Kubernetes environment — meeting any data residency or compliance requirement.

Meet the NextBillion.ai Team

Logistics technology veterans building the infrastructure that powers global dispatch operations.

Ajay Bulusu, Co-Founder of NextBillion.ai

Ajay Bulusu

Co-Founder

Ajay Bulusu is a Co-Founder of NextBillion.ai, bringing deep expertise in geospatial technology and logistics intelligence. His journey began at Grab's Geo team in 2017, where he worked alongside his co-founders to solve large-scale location problems for one of Southeast Asia's most demanding mobility and delivery platforms. The operational challenges he encountered there — expensive, rigid mapping tools that failed to serve real business needs — became the founding motivation for NextBillion.ai. Under his co-leadership, NextBillion.ai has grown from a vision to a platform serving 150+ businesses globally, raising $34.25M in venture capital and delivering over $11 million in cost savings to customers. Ajay's focus remains on building location technology that is accessible, flexible, and genuinely impactful for logistics and transportation builders worldwide.

Gaurav Bubna, Co-Founder of NextBillion.ai

Gaurav Bubna

Co-Founder

Gaurav Bubna is a Co-Founder of NextBillion.ai and the driving force behind the company's product innovation. He brings a rare combination of hands-on product experience across some of the world's most demanding technology platforms — having built successful products from scratch in ride-hailing, food delivery, and logistics at Grab, Ola, and Morgan Stanley. This background gave Gaurav a first-principles understanding of what logistics and mobility platforms actually need from location technology: not generic tools, but purpose-built, scalable, cost-effective infrastructure that handles real operational complexity. At NextBillion.ai, he has led the development of a dispatch and routing API suite now trusted by over 150 businesses globally, including DoorDash, Geotab, and AB InBev, optimizing more than 10.9 million deliveries and tasks to date.

Shaolin Zheng, Co-Founder of NextBillion.ai

Shaolin Zheng

Co-Founder

Shaolin Zheng is a Co-Founder of NextBillion.ai, contributing deep technical expertise in geospatial systems and large-scale routing infrastructure to the company's founding team. Like his co-founders, Shaolin's path to NextBillion.ai ran through Grab's Geo team, where the trio experienced the limitations of existing mapping and location technology solutions firsthand — tools that were expensive, inflexible, and not built for the scale or specificity that enterprise logistics and mobility platforms require. Shaolin's engineering vision has been central to building NextBillion.ai's API-first platform into a system capable of navigating over 557 million miles, processing large-scale distance matrices, and supporting dispatch workflows for fleet operators ranging from fast-growing startups to global enterprises. His work underpins the reliability and performance that NextBillion.ai's customers depend on daily.

Frequently Asked Questions

What does the NextBillion.ai Dispatch API actually do?

The Dispatch API automates the complete handoff between route planning and on-road execution. It pushes optimized, dispatch-ready routes directly from the planning engine to driver applications and fleet management systems in real time — eliminating manual re-entry, phone calls, and copy-paste transfers. It also handles dynamic reassignment when orders change, drivers are unavailable, or vehicles break down mid-shift.

How does the Driver Assignment API determine which driver to assign to a task?

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Can the Dispatch API handle dynamic order changes and cancellations mid-shift?

How long does it take to integrate and go live with the Dispatch API?

What is the pricing model for the Dispatch API — is it charged per API call?

Does the Dispatch API support on-premise deployment for data residency requirements?

How does the Dispatch API work alongside Route Optimization and Live Tracking?

Still Have Questions About the Dispatch API?

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