NextBillion.ai Route Optimization API

NextBillion.ai is a Singapore-based mapping and routing technology company founded in 2020 that sells enterprise APIs and SDKs to logistics, delivery and field service businesses. It targets margin-sensitive operators and software vendors that need routing logic beyond generic consumer map services. In October 2025 the company was fully acquired by Velocitor Solutions and continues to operate under its own brand.

The Route Optimization API combines more than 50 hard and soft constraints, such as time windows, vehicle capacity, skills, zones and costs, and solves problems of up to 10,000 orders in one request. It sits alongside Distance Matrix, Directions, Live Tracking and Navigation APIs, supports truck-safe routing with vehicle dimensions, real-time traffic and swappable map data (OpenStreetMap or TomTom). Customers include logistics software providers that embed the solver in their TMS, as well as fleets in last-mile, middle-mile, long-haul and field service.

• Route Optimization API: solves vehicle routing problems with 50+ hard and soft constraints for up to 10,000 orders.
• Re-optimization: inserts new orders into ongoing routes using live tracking data with minimal itinerary changes.
• Distance Matrix API: computes matrices up to 5,000 x 5,000 with real-time and historical traffic.
• Truck routing: considers vehicle dimensions and avoids tolls, highways or sharp turns.
• Custom maps: swaps between OpenStreetMap and TomTom data and supports on-premise deployment.
• Zone and cost controls: zone-based allocation, order grouping and custom cost matrices for fuel, labor and vehicles.

• A Vietnamese TMS or DMS software vendor can embed the API to offer route optimization without building its own solver.
• A distributor running truck fleets between provinces can use truck-safe routing and distance matrices for daily dispatch.
• A home-appliance installer or field service firm can assign technicians by skill, zone and time window.

• Plans routes for up to 10,000 orders per request with more than 50 constraints, so dispatchers edit fewer routes by hand.
• Vendor case studies report a 40% cut in scheduling time for a field service firm and a 35% cut in operating costs for a logistics software provider.
• Truck-safe routing and toll or highway avoidance help heavy vehicles stay on compliant roads.
• A 21-day free evaluation, setup in about a week and SOC 2 and ISO/IEC 27001 compliance shorten enterprise procurement.

Delivery and transport software vendors increasingly embed specialised routing engines instead of building solvers in-house, while fleets demand truck-aware routing, live re-optimization and predictable API pricing. In Southeast Asia, including Vietnam, fast growth of e-commerce, quick commerce and distribution networks raises demand for routing APIs that can be plugged into local TMS, DMS and delivery apps.

Founded in 2020 and headquartered in Singapore, NextBillion.ai raised a Series B before being fully acquired by Velocitor Solutions (Charlotte, US) in October 2025; both companies keep their brands. The platform states SOC 2 Type II and ISO/IEC 27001 compliance, GDPR and CCPA alignment, and offers hosting regions including Singapore. Gojek staff appear among its testimonials.