RouteKit MCP

Route optimization API for Brazil. First MCP server for route optimization.

Install

npx routekit-mcp

Or configure in your MCP client:

Claude Desktop / Claude Code

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "routekit": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "routekit-mcp"],
      "env": {
        "ROUTEKIT_API_KEY": "YOUR_KEY"
      }
    }
  }
}

Direct HTTP (no install needed)

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "routekit": {
      "type": "url",
      "url": "https://routekit.nexterait.com.br/mcp",
      "headers": {
        "X-API-Key": "YOUR_KEY"
      }
    }
  }
}

Related MCP server: ThinAir Geo

Get API Key

Get a free key (50 calls/month) at routekit.nexterait.com.br/static/signup.html

Tools

• calculate_route -- Driving route between points with real road distances and ETAs. Supports waypoints, encoded polyline geometry, turn-by-turn steps, and up to 3 alternative routes.

• distance_matrix -- NxN distance/duration matrix between up to 5000 locations (transparently chunked for large sets, cached for repeated queries).

• snap_to_road -- Snap a raw GPS coordinate to the nearest road segment. Returns the snapped point, distance from the original, and road name.

• isochrone -- Area reachable from a point within N minutes by car. Returns a GeoJSON Polygon useful for coverage analysis, depot placement, and service area definition.

• geocode -- Convert a Brazilian address or place name to latitude/longitude. Restricted to Brazil, in-house geocoder with no third-party dependency. Built-in fuzzy fallback handles abbreviations ("Av" -> "Avenida"), accents, and token drops.

• geocode_batch -- Geocode up to 50 addresses in a single call with parallel execution. Perfect for delivery manifests or client lists.

• reverse_geocode -- Convert lat/lon to a human-readable Brazilian address with components (road, neighborhood, city, state, postcode).

• compare_routes -- Run optimize_routes under multiple balance strategies (minimize_vehicles, balance_tasks, minimize_distance) and return a side-by-side comparison with winners per metric.

• validate_eta -- Simulate a pre-defined route in Python and return the real arrival times plus any constraint violations. Use when you already have a fixed order of stops and just need the ETAs.

• optimize_routes -- Advanced VRP solver:

  • tasks (single-location jobs) and/or shipments (paired pickup+delivery, same vehicle)

  • Constraints: time windows (multiple per task), skills, multi-dimensional capacity, breaks, priorities

  • Per-vehicle costs (fixed, per_hour, per_km, per_task_hour), max_tasks, max_travel_time_min, max_distance_km

  • balance_mode: minimize_vehicles (default), balance_tasks, or minimize_distance

  • setup_min separate from service_min (setup charged once per location)

  • setup_per_type / service_per_type for different times per technician/vehicle type

  • vehicle.type tags for per-type time/cost modeling

  • end_lat / end_lon for open routes with different destination (e.g. driver ends at home)

  • Mixed-profile fleets (car / bike / foot) with per-vehicle profile

  • include_geometry=true returns encoded polylines per route (for maps)

  • matrix_overrides: user-provided per-pair travel time / distance overrides (for toll routes, restricted zones, known detours)

  • Up to 500 tasks / 250 shipments / 100 vehicles per request

  • Route-level and step-level violations reported when constraints are tight

Example

Ask your AI assistant:

"Geocode these addresses and optimize 10 deliveries in Sao Paulo for 2 drivers -- the senior finishes each stop in 20 min, the junior in 45 min. Balance tasks evenly, end both at the same warehouse, include the route polylines so I can draw them on a map."

The AI will call geocode, then optimize_routes with vehicle.type, service_per_type, balance_mode, end_lat/end_lon and include_geometry -- no manual coordinate entry needed.

What's new in 1.4.1

• Per-tool analytics: the dashboard now shows a breakdown of which tools your API key has been calling (horizontal bars, ordered by frequency).

• 80% limit warning: when your usage crosses 80% of the monthly limit, the dashboard shows a yellow banner reminding you to upgrade before new calls are rejected. /billing/usage also exposes threshold_80 and threshold_100 flags.

• Welcome email: new customers get an onboarding email right after OTP verification, with their API key, ready-to-paste Claude Desktop config, a curl snippet and doc links.

What's new in 1.4.0

• calculate_route turn-by-turn: pass include_steps=true to get a list of maneuvers with street names, distances and durations per step.

• calculate_route alternatives: pass alternatives=1..3 to get alternate routes (useful for "fastest vs shortest vs no-toll" comparisons).

• Fuzzy geocoding: geocode now silently retries with abbreviation expansion ("Av" -> "Avenida"), accent normalization and token-drop heuristics when the exact query returns nothing. The response includes variant_used showing which transformation matched. Set fuzzy=false to disable.

• REST API: the same 10 tools are now available via plain HTTP POST under https://routekit.nexterait.com.br/v1/<tool_name>. Same X-API-Key auth, same metering. The public GET /v1/ lists all endpoints with their descriptions. Useful for integrations that don't speak MCP.

• Billing portal return flow: after managing a subscription on Stripe, the user lands back on the dashboard with a success banner instead of a raw JSON page.

What's new in 1.3.0

• compare_routes tool: compare the optimizer under multiple strategies and get winners per metric (distance, travel time, vehicles used). Runs strategies in parallel.

• validate_eta tool: simulate a pre-defined route and get real ETAs plus violations without re-optimizing. The sequence you provide is strictly respected.

• matrix_overrides on optimize_routes: patch specific pairs in the distance/time matrix with your own values (toll routes, ferries, known detours) without forcing users to send a whole NxN matrix.

What's new in 1.2.3

• geocode_batch: new tool accepting up to 50 addresses per call. Internally runs queries in parallel with bounded concurrency.

• Mixed-profile fleets: optimize_routes now fetches separate distance/duration matrices per vehicle profile (car/bike/foot). When a profile container isn't deployed, it falls back to car routing transparently.

• Smarter image check: the weekly OSRM image check now queries registry tags and ranks stable semver releases (filtering debug/assertions/rc variants).

What's new in 1.2.2

• Matrix cache: repeated distance/duration matrix queries hit a local cache and return ~5x faster. Transparent to callers.

• Automatic chunking: distance_matrix now handles up to 5000 locations by splitting into parallel sub-block queries.

• Retry + backoff: all upstream calls now retry transient failures (connect errors, 5xx) with exponential backoff + jitter before surfacing an error.

• Cleaner error messages: "temporarily unavailable" vs "no result found" so the LLM can decide whether to retry.

What's new in 1.2.0

• Geocoding: new geocode and reverse_geocode tools for Brazil. Users can speak in addresses instead of coordinates. No third-party API dependency.

• Snap-to-road: new snap_to_road tool to clean up noisy GPS before routing.

• Isochrone: new isochrone tool to compute areas reachable in N minutes.

• Technician modeling: vehicle.type, setup_per_type, service_per_type, costs.per_task_hour for per-type time and cost realism.

• Open routes: end_lat/end_lon per vehicle for drivers that end at a different place than they started.

• Multi-profile fleets: label vehicles with profile (car/bike/foot/truck).

What's new in 1.1.0

• shipments (paired pickup+delivery) support

• balance_mode to distribute tasks evenly across a fleet

• include_geometry to return route polylines from the optimizer

• Route violations now surfaced in the response for diagnosis

• setup_min vs service_min split for realistic location costs

• Matrix limit raised from 200 to 2000 locations

• Advanced VRP engine upgrade: per_km costs and max_distance_km constraints now active

Pricing

Links

• Website

• API Docs

• User Guide

• Dashboard

Provider

Nextera IT Solutions