Free VRP Route Optimizer

VRP-TW Capacity Google OR-Tools GuidedLocalSearch Upload your workbook, run the optimizer, visualize routes on the map.

What is the vehicle routing problem?

The vehicle routing problem (VRP) asks how to serve a set of stops with a fleet of vehicles at the lowest total cost — the classic "which truck visits which stops, and in what order" question behind delivery, field service, and logistics planning. This free tool solves the VRP with time windows (VRP-TW) and vehicle capacity limits: each stop can have an earliest and latest arrival time, each vehicle carries a maximum load, and routes respect a daily driving-time limit.

Under the hood it uses Google OR-Tools with a guided local search metaheuristic and pulls real drive times from OSRM, so routes reflect actual road networks rather than straight-line distances. Upload an Excel workbook with your stops, vehicles, and parameters, click run, and you get optimized routes on a map plus a downloadable CSV — no signup, no install, completely free.

1 How it works

Download the sample workbook — it shows the exact format for each sheet.

Fill in your own data. Do not rename or delete any sheets.

Upload and click Run. Travel times are fetched from OSRM and cached.

View routes on the map, inspect the stop table, download the CSV.

locations vehicles parameters warm_start (optional)

⇣ Download sample workbook — or import it into Google Sheets (File → Import) to use the link option below.

2 Upload your workbook

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Choose file or drag & drop

.xlsm · .xlsx

No Excel needed — keep your data in Google Sheets and edit it any time, then paste the link. Copy our Google Sheet template ↗
If you upload a file above, this link is ignored.

Vehicles Addresses in

No file needed — every stop is geocoded automatically. Every stop gets an equal, unlimited-window demand of 1; need per-stop time windows or capacities? Use the workbook upload above instead.
If you upload a file or paste a Google Sheet link above, this is ignored.

Fetching travel times and optimizing routes… this may take 1–3 minutes

🔒 Privacy: the coordinates you submit are sent to OSRM's public routing server to compute travel times. If you enter addresses instead of lat/lon, they're first looked up via the US Census geocoder, falling back to OpenStreetMap's Nominatim — nothing beyond what's needed to build the route. Travel-time results are cached locally by coordinate hash to speed up repeat solves. Nothing is sold or shared.

3 Results

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Routes

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Stops served

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Total time (min)

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Dropped

Common questions

Is there a free vehicle routing Excel template? Yes — the sample workbook above is a complete, working template: a 113-stop dataset with locations, vehicles, time windows, and parameters, ready to overwrite with your own stops. Prefer Google Sheets? Use the copyable template linked in the upload section.

Can I plan a route with more than 10 stops? Yes. Google Maps caps you at 10 waypoints; this tool routinely handles a hundred-plus stops across multiple vehicles — see how it compares to other free multi-stop route planners.

How does it compare to paid routing software? It solves the same problem class as the commercial tools, minus fleets-of-thousands scale and driver apps. If you are evaluating options, I wrote up an honest Route4Me alternative comparison.