What Gurobi GmbH does

Gurobi GmbH is the German-registered entity associated with Gurobi Optimization, LLC, a privately held developer of mathematical optimization software headquartered in Beaverton, Oregon. The company's core product, the Gurobi Optimizer, is a mathematical optimization solver that determines provably optimal decisions for problems involving billions of variables and constraints, supporting linear, mixed-integer, and quadratic programming. It is positioned within the broader AI stack as the "decision" counterpart to machine learning (prediction) and generative AI (communication), built and maintained by a PhD-heavy engineering team.

Gurobi's commercial offering is sold primarily through enterprise licensing and recurring subscriptions, delivered via direct enterprise field sales with PhD-level specialist support, complemented by a self-serve 30-day free trial and a channel of trusted service partners. The solver is embedded into customer and partner workflows across more than 40 industries, with particularly deep penetration in supply chain and logistics, power and energy, transportation, banking and financial services, oil and gas, and metals and mining. A strategic SAP partnership extends distribution into SAP's own supply chain and planning customer base, managing billions of variables on behalf of SAP clients.

In 2025, Gurobi introduced the Gurobi Intelligence Hub, an AI-powered add-on that uses autonomous optimization agents to help users build, understand, troubleshoot, and interact with optimization models via natural language, signaling a shift from pure solver licensing toward a broader decision intelligence platform. The company claims adoption by 70% of today's leading enterprises and cites a Forrester study reporting 100% ROI for customers, though specific revenue, ARR, and ownership details are not disclosed in the source material.

Name

Gurobi GmbH

Legal name

Gurobi Optimization, LLC

Website

https://gurobi.de

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Gurobi provides mathematical optimization software that solves complex business problems with billions of variables. Its solver and AI-powered Intelligence Hub serve leading enterprises across 40+ industries including supply chain, energy, transportation, and financial services.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Operations Research Software

NAICS

Computer Systems Design and Related Services (5415)

SIC

Services-Prepackaged Software (7372)

akta.pro primary industry

Scenario Planning, Forecasting Platforms & Planning Intelligence (HDAAAHAL)

Keywords

• Mathematical optimization software
• Decision intelligence platform
• Optimization solver
• Operations research software
• Enterprise optimization tools

Headquarters

HQ city

Berlin-friedrichshain

HQ country

Germany

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Software Licensing and Subscription: Gurobi generates revenue through commercial software licenses and subscriptions for its optimization solver. Organizations pay for the right to use the solver technology, with pricing based on deployment type (on-premise, cloud, etc.) and usage scale.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Gurobi provides mathematical optimization solver software used by enterprises to find the best possible (provably optimal) decision for complex business problems involving millions to billions of variables and constraints. The platform supports linear, mixed-integer, and quadratic programming for use cases such as supply chain planning, energy grid optimization, transportation network design, and financial portfolio management, and is supplemented by the AI-powered Gurobi Intelligence Hub for building and interacting with optimization models.

Product overview

Gurobi offers a single unified optimization solver platform (Gurobi Optimizer) as its core product, supplemented by the Gurobi Intelligence Hub — an AI-powered add-on module that provides optimization agents for building, understanding, troubleshooting, and interacting with optimization models. The platform supports enterprises across 40+ industries including Power & Energy, Supply Chain, Transportation, Banking & Financial Services, Oil & Gas, and Metals & Mining.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Gurobi Optimizer Mathematical optimization solver that determines the provably optimal decision for complex business problems with billions of variables and constraints. Supports linear programming, mixed-integer programming, and quadratic programming, and is used by enterprises for supply chain planning, energy system planning, transportation network design, financial portfolio management, and powering AI-driven applications.
• Gurobi Intelligence Hub AI-powered optimization platform that provides autonomous agents to help users build, understand, troubleshoot, and interact with optimization models. Enables natural language interaction with optimization models and is intended for enterprise analysts and engineers using Gurobi Optimizer.

Quantifiable outcome

• Customers achieve 100% ROI (Forrester study)
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers1 record

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability4 records

Feature3 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• SAPcoreTechnology or IntegrationGurobi has a strategic partnership with SAP as a technology and integration partner. SAP needed a powerful and reliable optimization technology partner to help customers tackle complex planning scenarios, especially given shifts in global supply chains. Gurobi's optimization solver is integrated with SAP's ecosystem, with billions of variables managed for SAP supply chain customers.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Emerging players

• OptaPlanner (Red Hat/IBM): OptaPlanner is an open-source AI constraint solver for Java-based planning problems, representing a free/open-source alternative for enterprise planning and scheduling workloads that could compete with Gurobi at the application layer.
• Hexaly (formerly LocalSolver): Hexaly is an emerging hybrid optimization solver combining heuristic and exact methods, competing with Gurobi on speed and ease of modeling for large-scale combinatorial problems.
• COIN-OR Foundation: COIN-OR hosts open-source solvers like CBC (MIP), CLP (LP), and others that represent free alternatives to Gurobi's commercial engine, increasingly used by enterprise teams for cost and vendor-independence reasons.
• Google OR-Tools: Google OR-Tools is a free, open-source optimization suite that competes with Gurobi on routing, scheduling, LP, and MIP problems, exerting pricing pressure particularly on cost-sensitive enterprise users.

Direct peers

• MOSEK ApS: MOSEK provides a commercial optimization solver specializing in conic and large-scale linear optimization, comparable to Gurobi in technical depth though narrower in commercial footprint and use-case breadth.
• FICO Xpress Optimization: FICO Xpress is a direct competitor providing enterprise-grade optimization solvers (LP, MIP, constraint programming) widely used in financial services, supply chain, and industrial applications — the same use cases Gurobi targets.
• Frontline Solvers (Frontline Systems): Frontline Systems offers Excel- and platform-native optimization solvers (Premium Solver, Analytic Solver) targeting a similar operations research and analytics buyer, with overlap in finance and supply chain use cases.
• IBM CPLEX (IBM Decision Optimization): IBM's CPLEX is the historic market-leading mathematical optimization solver and the most direct rival to Gurobi Optimizer, serving the same enterprise/OR customer base with comparable LP/MIP capabilities and pricing models.

Broad incumbents

• SAP IBP (Integrated Business Planning): SAP is both Gurobi's channel partner and a broad incumbent that bundles supply chain planning and optimization into IBP and S/4HANA — its strategic decisions on whether to deepen or in-house the Gurobi integration directly affect Gurobi's reach.
• Databricks: Databricks is a broad data/AI platform incumbent increasingly adding optimization and decision-intelligence capabilities to its lakehouse, representing an emerging adjacent competitor and potential partner for Gurobi's solver technology.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/gurobi

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

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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