Route Optimization API
Generate dispatch-ready, constraint-aware routes in seconds. Enforce delivery time windows, vehicle temperature zones, load capacities, and driver shift limits across entire fleets handling perishable cargo.
Perishable goods leave zero margin for routing errors — a delayed delivery means spoiled product, a broken promise, and a lost customer. NextBillion.ai's Route Optimization API is purpose-built for cold chain and time-sensitive logistics, handling 50+ constraints, real-time re-optimization, and temperature-zone-aware sequencing to keep every shipment on schedule and every product intact.
End-to-end routing intelligence purpose-built for perishable, cold chain, and time-critical delivery operations.
Generate dispatch-ready, constraint-aware routes in seconds. Enforce delivery time windows, vehicle temperature zones, load capacities, and driver shift limits across entire fleets handling perishable cargo.
Calculate precise travel times and distances between thousands of origins and destinations simultaneously — feeding the routing engine with accurate ETAs for time-sensitive perishable delivery scheduling.
Monitor every refrigerated vehicle in real time with sub-meter accuracy. Receive automated alerts for route deviations, unplanned stops, or delays that threaten perishable product integrity.
Push optimized cold chain routes directly to driver apps and fleet systems the moment planning is complete, eliminating manual handoffs and dispatch delays that cost perishable delivery operations critical minutes.
Define arrival zones at depots, cold storage hubs, and customer sites to automate proof-of-delivery, trigger chain-of-custody logging, and alert operations teams the moment a vehicle enters or exits a critical boundary.
Match drivers to perishable delivery tasks instantly based on location, vehicle type, shift availability, and cargo certification — ensuring the right driver handles the right temperature-sensitive load every time.
Upload your delivery orders via API with all relevant perishable constraints: delivery time windows, vehicle compartment temperature requirements, maximum transit durations, and customer-specific handling instructions. The engine accepts 50+ hard and soft constraints in a single request.
See how logistics operators worldwide are cutting spoilage, slashing costs, and hitting delivery windows consistently.
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"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."
Built by logistics engineers for logistics operators — here is why leading perishable delivery businesses trust NextBillion.ai.
Model every cold chain rule — time windows, temperature zones, load limits, driver certifications — in a single optimization call.
Per-vehicle or per-order pricing means seasonal demand spikes never cause runaway API costs or budget overruns.
Low-latency routing delivers dispatch-ready perishable delivery routes in seconds, not minutes, keeping operations agile.
Round-the-clock hands-on support from dedicated solutions engineers who understand logistics operations, not just APIs.
Logistics technology veterans building routing intelligence that actually works in the field.
Co-Founder
Gaurav drives product innovation at NextBillion.ai with a track record of building products from the ground up across some of the world's most demanding logistics and mobility environments. Having scaled solutions at Grab, Ola, and Morgan Stanley, he brings deep expertise in the operational realities that route optimization must solve — high order volumes, tight delivery windows, and the margin sensitivity that defines industries like perishable goods delivery. At NextBillion.ai, Gaurav leads the team's mission to make enterprise-grade routing intelligence accessible and affordable for logistics operators of every scale, ensuring the platform evolves in step with the complex, constraint-heavy demands of real-world cold chain and time-critical delivery operations.
Co-Founder
Ajay Bulusu co-founded NextBillion.ai after years of hands-on experience building location technology at Grab, one of Southeast Asia's largest ride-hailing and logistics platforms. His firsthand understanding of how inadequate, inflexible mapping solutions constrain logistics operations — particularly those with complex routing requirements like perishable goods delivery — drove him to build a platform that gives operators genuine control over their routing intelligence. Ajay brings a systems-level perspective to product development, ensuring NextBillion.ai's APIs are architected for the scale, reliability, and customization that enterprise logistics businesses require. His work has helped the platform deliver over $11 million in cost savings to customers across 150+ businesses globally.
Co-Founder
Shaolin Zheng brings deep engineering and geospatial expertise to NextBillion.ai, having collaborated with Ajay and Gaurav on Grab's Geo team before co-founding the company in 2020. His technical foundation underpins the platform's core capabilities — from large-scale distance matrix computation handling up to 25 million coordinate pairs in a single call, to the custom road attribute engine that allows perishable logistics operators to encode their real-world routing constraints directly into every calculation. Shaolin's work ensures that NextBillion.ai's routing engine is not only computationally powerful but operationally accurate, delivering solutions that hold up under the demanding performance requirements of cold chain and time-critical delivery networks.
The API enforces hard and soft time windows at the constraint level during optimization. You define the earliest and latest acceptable delivery time for each stop, and the solver sequences routes to honour those windows across all vehicles simultaneously. For perishable goods, you can also set maximum transit duration limits per route to cap the time any product spends in transit before delivery.
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