Free trial
There are three ways to evaluate MaestroHub, from a download you can run in the next ten minutes to a six-week pilot on your own plant. Here is what each one means and where its limits are.
1Start here
No licence, no form to wait on
Download MaestroHub and start it without a licence key. It runs on an evaluation licence with every feature, Enterprise ones included, in two-hour sessions, and you can start a new session as often as you like.
2When two hours is too short
A time-limited key from our team
If you need pipelines to keep running overnight or across a week of testing, ask for a trial licence. It removes the two-hour session limit for an agreed period.
3With our engineers
On your own plant data
We install MaestroHub beside what you already run, connect the machines you name, and work with your team for six weeks. One VM, no production writes.
The free trial's limits
Without a licence, MaestroHub runs for two hours at a time. When the session ends, automated and scheduled pipelines pause.
Your data, pipelines, dashboards, connections and user accounts all stay where they are. You can still sign in, browse and review everything you built.
Restart the MaestroHub service to begin a fresh two-hour session. You can do this as many times as you want.
The trial runs on an evaluation licence that includes every licensed feature, Enterprise ones too: advanced access control, and multi-tenancy for up to three organisations. It runs on one machine; multi-node high availability needs an Enterprise deployment.
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| Free trial | Trial licence | Six-week pilot | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cost | Free | Free | Scoped with you |
| Licence key needed | No | Yes, time-limited | Yes, provided for the pilot |
| How long it runs | Two hours per session, unlimited sessions | Continuously, for the agreed period | Six weeks |
| Edition | Evaluation: every feature, on one machine | Foundation or Enterprise, as agreed | The edition that fits your plant |
| Scheduled pipelines | Pause when a session ends | Keep running | Keep running |
| Your data and configuration | Kept between sessions | Kept | Kept, and carried into production |
| Who sets it up | You | You | Our team, with yours |
| Best for | A first look, today | A proper technical evaluation | Proving the value on your own plant |
No factory to connect?
A free four-station brake caliper line with 100+ sensor tags, faults and energy data. Run it next to the trial and build real dashboards and pipelines without touching a PLC.
Questions
No. The free trial needs no licence key and no call. Download it from the portal, start it, and it runs.
The free trial is what MaestroHub does when it starts with no licence: every feature, Enterprise ones included, in two-hour sessions that you restart yourself. A trial licence is a time-limited key we issue on request. It removes the session limit, so scheduled pipelines keep running for the whole evaluation period.
Automated and scheduled pipelines pause. Nothing is deleted: your data, pipelines, dashboards, connections and user accounts stay exactly where they are. Restart the service for another session, or apply a licence key to continue without interruption.
No. You paste the licence key on the License page while MaestroHub is running. The edition changes at once, with no restart and no data migration, and everything you built during the trial is still there.
Yes. The free Digital Factory Simulator gives you a four-station production line with 100+ sensor tags over OPC UA, Modbus TCP, MQTT, REST and PostgreSQL, running on your own machine.
On your own machine or server: Windows, macOS or Linux, or as a Docker image. Nothing has to leave your network.
From inside the product there is a trial licence extension request that reaches our team, or you can write to info@maestrohub.com. Tell us what you want to test and for how long.
Download the free trial and have MaestroHub running today, or start the six-week pilot and prove it on your own plant.
