The Distance Matrix API

Calculate, evaluate and plan your routes to improve your customers' online experience and enhance your business efficiency

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Main API features

Real-time traffic

Our Distance Matrix API provides the route duration, taking into account real-time traffic conditions

Travel modes

Distance is calculated to account for users who are driving, walking, bicycling, or using public transport

Forecasting

The Distance Matrix API can forecast travel times, taking into account departure and arrival times

Quick response

The request calculation time is up to 50 elements per second, so you can get the API response less than in a second

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Duration and duration in traffic

Based on real-time data

Driving, walking, and bicycling modes

Departure & arrival time

Distance in traffic mode

Any languages

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Duration (average time)

Based on aggregated average data

The fastest response in milliseconds

Driving mode

The best result for the English language

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Geocoding API Fast

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How it works

The Matrix API returns the trip duration in seconds and the distance in meters to show the fastest route between the coordinates of the selected points.

The task

For example, let's say you need to find the distance and travel time between the following address points on the map:

1677 Easton Rd, Willow Grove, PA 19090, USA
119 S Easton Rd, Glenside, PA 19038, USA

API geocode

The API geocode returns these queries as point coordinates:

40.1349979,-75.1228148
40.1000254,-75.1540458

The result

The Distance Matrix API then returns distance and travel time data on the queries with point coordinates. The API response contains a distance matrix in JSON format.

For example, 310 meters and 2600 seconds

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What industries benefit from this API?

We can optimize your delivery economics and improve your business efficiency, whether your business is about food delivery, ride-hailing services, or complicated logistical platforms.

Food delivery

Taxi services

Courier services

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Information for developers

The Distance Matrix API's request-and-response format is similar to Google's Distance Matrix API. Migrating it is easy.

Example:

https://api.distancematrix.ai/distancematrix?origins=51.4822656,-0.1933769&destinations=51.4994794,-0.1269979&key=<your_access_token>

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Response:

{
  "destination_addresses": [
    "Westminster Abbey, Westminster, London SW1P 3PA, UK"
  ],
  "origin_addresses": [
    "Chapel, Fulham, London SW6 1BA, UK"
  ],
  "rows": [
    {
      "elements": [
        {
          "distance": {
            "text": "4.7 miles",
            "value": 7563.898
          },
          "duration": {
            "text": "31 min",
            "value": 1860.0
          },
          "duration_in_traffic": {
            "text": "31 min",
            "value": 1860.0
          },
          "status": "OK"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "status": "OK"
}

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