Your plant runs on data.

The data historian should never be the constraint.

When historians charge per tag, engineers are limited on what they capture.

Timebase removes that tradeoff so you can store everything forever, for free.

Eliminate all 'per-tag' licensing

Always have the data you need

Ensure your data foundation is solid

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How can it be free?

THE PROBLEM WITH OLD HISTORIANS

Legacy historians were designed to make you pay more as you grow.

We think that's the wrong way to build a foundation. That's not a data strategy that serves you. That's a business model built against your engineers. It forces teams make decisions about what not to store.

They have to choose which tags matter. They leave gaps in the record, not because the data isn't there, but because capturing it costs too much.

If that sounds familiar, you're not behind. It's just how the industry was built. Timebase was built different.

Costs Show Up In MORE Places
Than just The Invoice

Engineering hours spent debating which tags to archive.

Blind spots in root-cause analysis because "low priority" data wasn't captured.

Scale-up friction where doubling production quadruples licensing costs.

Artificial constraints on machine learning and predictive maintenance models.

A historian that never limits what you store

Timebase Historian is a free, time-series historian built by process engineers who were tired of paying to store their own data.

Zero Tag Limits

Never decide what not to capture again. Store every tag, every sensor, every line. All with no licensing walls and no conversations with finance.

Built For Speed

150,000 writes per second. 1M+ tags tested continuously. When the line is running, Timebase keeps up without flinching.

Lossless Storage

Every data point you write is a data point you keep. Our purpose-built compression preserves full fidelity, down to 500ms resolution.

Simple To Run

Operations can own and manage it. No database skills or advanced IT. Windows or Docker; same performance either way.

Easy To Connect

OPC UA, MQTT, Sparkplug, Ignition, Telegraf — Timebase speaks the protocols your plant already uses. No rip and replace.

AI Ready

An MCP server makes your historian data available to any AI agent. Your shop floor data, accessible to the tools you're building with.

What Timebase does differently

We built a storage engine using NoSQL technology, so it doesn't care about the number of columns in your table. Whether you are tracking 100 tags or 500,000, the performance remains deterministic.
We prioritize high-volume retrieval so your data isn't just stored, it's usable.

BENCHMARK STATUS

Tag Count

1,000,000+

Ingestion Rate

150,000 writes/sec

"Performance that scales linearly with hardware, not with your budget."

What changes when the limit is gone

Full-fidelity records transform plant operations from reactive troubleshooting to proactive optimization. When every vibration sensor, temperature probe, and valve position is logged at its native frequency, the "why" behind every downtime event becomes clear.

Digital Mirroring

Capture the exact state of your plant at any millisecond in history.

True Root Cause

No more "interpolated" data errors. See the actual raw values during failure.

AI Readiness

Provide high-density datasets to your data science teams without extra cost.

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The answer is in your data.
Now you can actually see it.

When you stop limiting what you store, you stop limiting what you know. Every shift, every batch, every anomaly. It’s all recorded, queryable, and ready when you need it.

With this low of effort, and no cost, why wouldn't you evaluate this solution or test Timebase against your existing historian?

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Dig into the technical specs

Zero $

Licensing Cost

Timebase Historian is free to download, run, and scale. No per-tag fees. No surprise invoices.

10 min

From Installation To Data

Start logging in under ten minutes. No database skills or IT ticket required. Just subscribe to your server or broker.

1 Million+

Tags Supported

Continuously tested at scale. As your operation grows, Timebase Historian grows with it.

Free today, free tomorrow, free forever

legacy historians DON'T slow THEM down

World class engineers within world class companies have found value in Timebase, we are confident you will too.

Beta Testers Needed For New Timebase Atlas & Bridge

+ Learn more about the new modules coming this summer and register

LAUNCHING JULY 2026

Timebase Atlas

Atlas connects to your historians, MES, LIMS, CMMS, ERP, and other data systems and applies object-oriented principles and knowledge graphs to the OT world, enabling flexible models that can be used to solve your most complex business problems. With a built-in websocket interface, Atlas itself functions as a Unified Namespace you can subscribe to directly.

Timebase Bridge

Bridge is a pipeline-driven integration engine that extends Atlas by delivering modeled data to systems that cannot subscribe directly.

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Who we built Timebase Historian for

Plant Engineers

Build the monitoring systems you actually want without having to ask for a budget increase every time you add a PLC.

System Integrators

Deliver more value to your clients by providing comprehensive data visibility that doesn't balloon their operational costs.

Digital Transformation Teams

Standardize data architecture across the entire enterprise with a predictable, fixed-cost model that scales globally.

What are you focused on?

Trustworthy records transform plant operations from reactive troubleshooting to proactive optimization.
When every vibration sensor, temperature probe, and valve position is logged at its native frequency, the "why" behind every downtime event becomes clear.