OSRM Hosting Live In 5 Minutes

OSRM hosting on xCloud lets you deploy OSRM, a routing engine for OpenStreetMap data, as your own routing API on your own domain. xCloud runs the pinned image with a sidecar that downloads the map extract you choose and builds routing data for a car, bicycle or foot profile, keeps it on a persistent volume and publishes the HTTP API over HTTPS, with no per-request fees.

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What is OSRM?

OSRM, the Open Source Routing Machine, is a high-performance routing engine written in C++ and designed to run on OpenStreetMap data. Its HTTP API offers nearest, route, table, match, trip and tile services, so you can find the fastest path, build distance matrices, snap GPS traces to roads and fetch Mapbox Vector Tiles. A self-hosted OSRM is a routing API of your own, an alternative to the Google Maps Directions API. It is BSD-2-Clause licensed.

On xCloud it is OSRM v26.10.0, the official image pinned by digest, using the Multi-Level Dijkstra pipeline. You choose a .osm.pbf extract and one profile at install; a sidecar downloads it into the osrm_data volume and OSRM runs the extract, partition and customize steps. OSRM has no web page and no login, and the map data is ODbL, so credit OpenStreetMap.

From Sign-Up to a Live Routing API In Just 3 Easy Steps

A routing server normally means picking an extract, downloading it, preprocessing it for a profile, running the router, a volume, a domain and a certificate. This is the same result without assembling any of it.

Step 01
Sign Up
Create your xCloud account and pick OSRM from the OneClick catalog. Choose your domain and server, then enter the OpenStreetMap extract URL (the default is Monaco from Geofabrik) and a routing profile: car, bicycle or foot.
Step 02
We Deploy It For You
One click. We bring up the official OSRM image, pinned by immutable digest, with a small download sidecar (no published ports) that fetches your extract, builds the routing data into the osrm_data volume and publish the API on container port 5000 over HTTPS. The first start takes about a minute for a city or small country, longer for large regions.
Step 03
Request A Route
There is no sign-in and no web page. Call the API directly, for example /route/v1/driving/7.4166,43.7311;7.4276,43.7396?overview=false on your domain, and read the route back as JSON.

Everything OSRM Does, On Your Own Server

OSRM runs in full here: the routing API for an OpenStreetMap region of your choice, on a server you own.

Fastest Routes Between Points
The route API returns the fastest route between coordinates, so your application asks your own server rather than a metered third-party service.
Distance And Duration Tables
The table API returns distance and duration matrices between many points, useful for delivery and dispatch planning.
GPS Map Matching And Trips
The match API snaps noisy GPS traces to roads, and the trip API solves the ordering of multi-stop journeys.
Nearest Road And Vector Tiles
Look up the nearest road to a coordinate, or request Mapbox Vector Tiles that carry routing metadata.
Your Region, Your Profile
Choose any OpenStreetMap extract, for example from Geofabrik, and a car, bicycle or foot profile at install time.
Routing Data That Persists
The downloaded extract and the built routing data sit on the osrm_data volume and survive an xCloud Restart without being rebuilt.

Everything You Need To Run Your Routing API 24/7

Managed hosting for OSRM, so the parts that keep it online are not your problem.

OSRM v26.10.0 deployed instantly
Official image pinned by digest
Extract download handled for you
Persistent routing data volume
Free SSL certificate
Server backups and snapshots
Server security updates included
30+ server locations
Unused balance refunded

What You Can Do With OSRM

Calculate routes inside your own app
Call the route service from your product to get the fastest path and distance between coordinates, without sending every request to a paid mapping API.
Build delivery distance and time tables
Use the table service to get duration and distance matrices between many points, so a dispatcher or planner compares options on a server you control.
Snap GPS traces to the road network
Feed recorded GPS points to the match service to turn a noisy trace into the roads actually driven, for fleet reports or ride histories.
Keep routing inside one region
Load a single city or country extract and one travel profile, so a local service gets fast answers from data that fits comfortably on one Cloud VPS.

OSRM vs Alternatives

Google Maps Directions API: A hosted routing service billed by the vendor. OSRM is a routing engine you run yourself on OpenStreetMap data, with no per-request fees from xCloud and no third-party rate limits.
Mapbox Directions API: In an OSRM vs Mapbox Directions API comparison, OSRM is self-hosted on OpenStreetMap extracts, and its tile service returns Mapbox Vector Tiles with routing metadata.
The public OSRM demo server: Upstream runs a public demo at router.project-osrm.org, subject to an API usage policy. Hosting your own gives you a region and profile you choose, and traffic that is yours alone.
Running OSRM by hand: Building OSRM yourself needs a C++20 compiler and CMake. The template runs the published image and prepares the routing data for you on first start.

Simple Pricing. Everything Included.

Dedicated Cloud VPS sizes, pre-configured for OSRM hosting. Pick the one that fits, and resize any time.

Cloud VPS 6 GB

Cloud VPS 16 GB

More headroom for larger regions or heavier query load.

$59.99per month

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6 vCPU cores
200 GB NVMe SSD
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Every size is a dedicated Cloud VPS we provision, patch, monitor and restore. Billed monthly with no lock-in — delete the server and the unused balance comes back to your account. OSRM itself is licensed by its maintainers under BSD-2-Clause.

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OSRM on xCloud runs on a dedicated Cloud VPS that we provision, patch, monitor and restore. Deploy faster. Own the server. Stay in control.

Fast Provisioning
Deploy faster using an xCloud Managed Server built with optimized stacks and high-speed SSDs.
Enterprise-grade security
Protect your infrastructure with a free SSL certificate and more advanced security features at no additional cost.
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From Server creation to application deployment, everything can be managed from our intuitive control panel.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Feel free to contact us with any questions or concerns you may have.

How much RAM does OSRM need?

The template floor is 1024 MB of RAM, 1 CPU core and 5 GB of disk, which covers a city-size extract. Building routing data needs far more memory than serving it, so a large country calls for a bigger plan; the --mmap option lowers memory only while serving.

Can you self-host OSRM with Docker?

Yes, and this template is osrm docker hosting without the setup: the official osrm-backend image pinned by digest, a sidecar that fetches your chosen extract, the osrm_data volume and HTTPS on your own domain, with the Multi-Level Dijkstra pipeline.

Which APIs does OSRM provide?

Upstream lists nearest, route, table, match, trip and tile services over HTTP. OSRM has no web page of its own, so you call it from your application. The profile in a URL is informational: the data was built for one profile.

How long does the first OSRM start take?

The API answers only after the extract is downloaded and the routing data is built. Expect about a minute for a city or small country, tens of minutes for a large country, and hours for a continent-size extract; requests fail until then.

Is the OSRM API public?

Yes. There is no login, and every response allows cross-origin requests from any site, so anyone with the address can use your server's CPU. Put Basic Auth or an IP allowlist in front of the domain yourself if it should be private.

Is OSRM free?

Yes. OSRM is BSD-2-Clause licensed, so the engine itself is free. The Cloud VPS is your only cost, giving you an OSRM cloud install of your own. The OpenStreetMap data is ODbL, so credit its contributors.

How do I change the OSRM region or profile?

Edit OSRM_PBF_URL or OSRM_PROFILE in the Environment editor and redeploy. The container downloads the new extract and rebuilds the routing data from scratch, and the API is unavailable until it finishes. Unchanged settings reuse the existing data.

How do I back up OSRM?

The osrm_data volume holds the downloaded extract and the built routing data, and both can be re-created from the extract URL. There is nothing else to back up, so keep a note of your URL and profile.

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How do I upgrade OSRM?

The install stays on its pinned v26.10.0 image until you adopt a newer template version. Read the upstream release notes first. A new version may need the routing data rebuilt, so expect the API to be unavailable while that runs.

Is OSRM an alternative to the Google Maps Directions API?

For routing on OpenStreetMap data, it can be. You run the engine yourself, so there are no per-request fees from xCloud, but you supply the region extract and the capacity. Upstream publishes no comparison with commercial APIs.

Can I cancel anytime?

Yes. There is no lock-in — cancel any time. Hosting is billed monthly and charged for what you actually use, so when you delete the server the unused balance is refunded to your account, less up to 10% in payment-processing fees.