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.
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"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!"
"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!"
"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."
"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."
"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!"
"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!"
"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."
"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."
"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!"
"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!"
"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."
"Rich in features, light in the pocket. NextBillion.ai is solving the complex processes of the best route for the right vehicle."
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
Gaurav Bubna co-founded NextBillion.ai with a vision to make sophisticated location intelligence accessible and customizable for businesses of every size. He drives product innovation at the company, bringing deep expertise earned building products from scratch across some of the world's most demanding logistics and mobility environments — ride-hailing at Grab, food delivery at Ola, and financial technology at Morgan Stanley. His experience in high-throughput, high-stakes geospatial systems directly informs the design of NextBillion.ai's routing and mapping APIs, which are built to handle the operational complexity that generic mapping platforms cannot. Gaurav and his co-founders launched NextBillion.ai in 2020 after identifying a persistent gap in the market: enterprise logistics teams were forced to choose between expensive inflexible APIs and building everything in-house.
Co-Founder
Ajay Bulusu is a co-founder of NextBillion.ai, the enterprise mapping and route optimization API platform built to serve logistics, fleet, and mobility developers at scale. Ajay's founding journey began in 2017 when he collaborated with Gaurav Bubna and Shaolin Zheng on the Geo team at Grab, where the trio witnessed firsthand the critical role that precise, flexible location technology plays in operational efficiency and customer satisfaction — and the costly limitations of the solutions available at the time. That shared experience led directly to NextBillion.ai's founding in 2020, with a mission to democratize sophisticated location intelligence. Under Ajay's leadership, NextBillion.ai has delivered over $11 million in cost savings to customers, optimized 10.9+ million deliveries, and served 150+ businesses globally.
Co-Founder
Shaolin Zheng is a co-founder of NextBillion.ai, the AI-powered mapping and route optimization platform serving logistics operators, fleet managers, and mobility developers globally. Shaolin was part of the founding team that came together through their shared work on the Geo team at Grab in 2017, where the critical interplay between geospatial technology and real-world operational performance became the foundation of a new company vision. Launched in 2020, NextBillion.ai reflects Shaolin's commitment to building location technology that is both technically rigorous and commercially practical — offering predictable pricing models, on-premise deployment, and an API suite that scales from startup to enterprise. In 2025, NextBillion.ai joined Velocitor Solutions, extending the platform's reach into enterprise telematics and fleet management.
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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