Why Timefold?
Timefold is the natural next step for forward-thinking teams. Expect better schedules in less time, with active releases, enterprise support, and compliance you can trust.
Timefold is built and maintained by Geoffrey De Smet – the creator of OptaPlanner – and the core team behind it. We’ve been doing this for about 20 years, and the team’s now over 30 strong. That deep know-how? It didn’t disappear. It leveled up.
Red Hat has marked OptaPlanner End-of-Life. That means no guaranteed security updates, no releases, no new features, and no bug fixes. Why risk going for a deprecated technology, when there’s an actively maintained alternative that’s continuously innovating.
Teams moving from OptaPlanner to Timefold report around 5% better schedules on average. That translates to savings like 7 minutes per vehicle per day or about 1,200 USD per technician per year, while using fewer cloud resources. Depending on scale, those numbers add up to millions in savings.
OptaPlanner steadily consumes more memory until it fills the entire Java heap, demanding larger servers and higher bills. Timefold is different: it only takes what it needs and keeps memory stable, even under heavy load. The result? Smaller instances, fewer resources, and 5× lower run costs.
We help you supervise, simulate and steer planning decisions
With Timefold, you’re not just solving, you’re steering. The Timefold Platform wraps our solver with scalable infrastructure, battle-tested optimization models, a clean REST API, and explainability features that share value across stakeholders.
Unlock trust in your planning by showing the “why” behind every decision. Explain, challenge and justify the optimized schedules.
Keep your planning in sync with your business’ strategy. Our PlanningAI engine optimizes based on how you prioritize success metrics.
Find out where to add and where to cut resources, thanks to insightful data intelligence. Compare your optimization datasets, and pick what works for you.
Shorten your time-to-value with our out-of-the-box APIs. These optimization models are standardized solutions to common planning problems.
A bit of history
Geoffrey De Smet starts developing Drools Planner in his spare time.
Red Het commercializes the open-source project in Red Hat Decision Manager, Drools Planner becomes OptaPlanner.
IBM aqcuires Red Hat, OptaPlanner becomes a go-to choice to solve complex planning problems.
Timefold forks OptaPlanner after IBM decided to pull OptaPlanner’s plug. The core team of OptaPlanner joins Timefold.