What Hexaly does

Hexaly is a Paris-headquartered optimization software company that builds a hybrid global solver for combinatorial, nonlinear, and simulation-based decision problems. Its technology combines exact methods (spatial branch-and-bound, simplex, interior-point, automatic Dantzig-Wolfe reformulation, branch-cut-price, column and row generation, constraint propagation) with heuristic methods (local search, direct search, surrogate modeling) inside a single unified architecture. A nonlinear, set-oriented modeling interface lets users formulate routing, scheduling, packing, clustering, matching, assignment, and location problems that classical MILP solvers struggle with. The product suite comprises Hexaly Optimizer (the core solver), Hexaly Modeler (the modeling language), Hexaly Studio (a no-code/low-code web development environment, recently augmented by an LLM-driven natural-language modeling assistant), and Hexaly Cloud (managed deployment).

The company sells primarily to enterprise customers across logistics and transportation, manufacturing, supply chain and energy, and workforce management, with documented deployments at Amazon, Procter & Gamble, FedEx, Sony, Airbus, Bosch, La Poste, TotalEnergies, EDF, ENGIE, Renault, Bridgestone, Workday, and others. Revenue is generated through quote-based annual enterprise software licenses (desktop, server, floating, site), cloud subscriptions, and professional services, supplemented by a 1-month free trial and free academic licensing that seeds the developer pipeline. Go-to-market combines enterprise field sales with event-driven lead generation at OR/MS conferences (INFORMS, ICAPS, IFORS, EURO, ROADEF) and integration partnerships with NEXTMV, AIMMS, and Addinsoft/XLOPTIM that distribute the solver through third-party optimization platforms. The company is founder-led and bootstrapped, with no documented venture capital funding rounds, and operates with 51-100 employees across Paris, Brooklyn, and Asia-Pacific.

Name

Hexaly

Legal name

Hexaly

Website

https://hexaly.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2012

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Short description

Hexaly builds a hybrid global optimization solver that combines exact and heuristic methods to solve large-scale routing, scheduling, packing, and supply chain problems, sold to 400+ enterprise customers via annual software licenses and cloud subscriptions.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Optimization Software

NAICS

Custom Computer Programming Services (541511), Computer Systems Design and Related Services (54151)

SIC

Services-Computer Programming Services (7371)

akta.pro primary industry

Developer Experience Platforms for Enterprise (IDEs, CI/CD, Dev Portals) (HDAEAKAI)

akta.pro secondary industries

Hybrid Cloud Compute & Virtualization Stack (HCI/VMs/Kubernetes) (HDABAMAF), Network Capacity Planning & Traffic Engineering (HDAFAMAM)

Keywords

• Optimization solver software
• Mathematical programming tools
• Operations research software
• Vehicle routing optimization
• Production scheduling software

Headquarters

HQ city

Brooklyn

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Personnel, Marketing or Sales, Operations

Revenue model

1. Software Licenses: Hexaly Optimizer sold as desktop, server, floating, or site licenses. Supports Windows, Linux, and macOS platforms. Available via Python, C++, C#, and Java APIs.
2. Cloud Services: Hexaly Cloud provides optimization-as-a-service in the cloud environment for running and deploying optimization models.
3. Academic Licensing: Free access for faculty and students, with Hexaly Studio also free for educational purposes.
4. Professional Services: Consulting and implementation services for enterprise customers needing assistance with optimization model development and deployment.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Hexaly develops and sells a hybrid global optimization solver and supporting platform used to solve complex combinatorial, nonlinear, and simulation-based optimization problems such as vehicle routing, production scheduling, supply chain network design, workforce scheduling, packing, and clustering. The platform combines Hexaly Optimizer (MIP solver), Hexaly Modeler (modeling language), Hexaly Studio (no-code web development environment), and Hexaly Cloud (cloud deployment), and is licensed to enterprise customers via on-premise or cloud subscriptions.

Product overview

Hexaly offers a complete optimization platform consisting of four integrated products: Hexaly Optimizer (the core next-generation MIP solver), Hexaly Modeler (optimization modeling language), Hexaly Studio (web-based development studio for no-code optimization), and Hexaly Cloud (cloud deployment). Together, these products enable users to design, model, solve, and deploy complex optimization systems for routing, scheduling, packing, clustering, and supply chain problems.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Hexaly Optimizer Next-generation hybrid MIP solver combining exact and heuristic methods (branch-and-bound, simplex, interior-point, automatic Dantzig-Wolfe reformulation, column/row generation, local search, surrogate modeling) used by enterprise OR teams to solve large-scale combinatorial, nonlinear, and black-box optimization problems.
• Hexaly Modeler Optimization modeling language with a nonlinear and set-oriented interface that unifies mixed-integer programming, nonlinear programming, constraint programming, and black-box optimization concepts for formulating routing, scheduling, and packing problems.
• Hexaly Studio Web-based optimization development studio that allows enterprise teams and OR practitioners to prototype, develop, and deploy optimization applications in a no-code/low-code fashion with dashboards, widgets, and solution visualizations.
• Hexaly Cloud Cloud platform for deploying and running Hexaly optimization models in a managed cloud environment, offered as an alternative to on-premise desktop, server, floating, or site licensing.
• Professional Services

Quantifiable outcome

• Amazon uses Hexaly to assign 2 million VMs to 100,000 servers
• +7 more outcomes

Named customers33 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

Yes

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability2 records

Feature8 records

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• AIMMS: Supply chain analytics and optimization modeling platform that bundles its own solvers with third-party engines (including Hexaly via the Transport Navigator partnership). Comparable to Hexaly Studio/Cloud as a no-code optimization app platform.
• Gurobi Optimization: Leading commercial mathematical programming solver (MIP/LP/QP/NLP) widely used for routing, scheduling and supply chain optimization. Direct head-to-head competitor to Hexaly Optimizer and explicitly benchmarked on Hexaly's own website.
• FICO Xpress Optimization: Enterprise optimization suite (Xpress Solver, Mosel, Insight) for linear, mixed-integer and constraint programming, with strong adoption in banking, supply chain and manufacturing — directly competitive with Hexaly in hybrid optimization.
• IBM CPLEX: IBM's enterprise optimization solver (formerly ILOG CPLEX) and broader Decision Optimization platform. Competes with Hexaly in large-scale MIP/NLP/CP workloads across logistics, manufacturing and finance.
• Google OR-Tools: Google's open-source optimization suite for vehicle routing, scheduling, flows and constraint programming. A free alternative Hexaly explicitly compares against, posing pricing pressure on Hexaly's commercial offerings.
• DecisionBrain: Optimization software and decision-support solutions for routing, scheduling and resource planning in transportation, energy and manufacturing. Closely comparable mid-sized European-headquartered competitor to Hexaly.

Emerging players

• Nextmv: DecisionOps platform for routing, scheduling and dispatch with built-in optimization engines and simulation. Integrates Hexaly as a solver, but also competes at the platform layer with Hexaly Studio/Cloud.
• Frontline Solvers (Analytic Solver): Excel-based optimization and simulation tools (Premium Solver, Analytic Solver) for operations research practitioners. Comparable use cases (routing, scheduling, supply chain) and overlapping low-code user base with Hexaly Studio.

Broad incumbents

• o9 Solutions: Enterprise AI-powered Integrated Business Planning platform covering demand planning, supply chain and S&OP. Competes for the same supply chain and workforce optimization budget Hexaly targets, though at a much larger platform scale.
• Blue Yonder (Luminate Planning): Large incumbent supply chain planning and orchestration suite (formerly JDA). Goes after similar optimization use cases (routing, scheduling, network design) that Hexaly serves, but as part of a much broader enterprise software portfolio.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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