Mockaroo vs Tonic.ai

From $60 per year (indicative, Silver)

Quote on request

Cheap for what it does; higher tiers raise row limits and add API quota.

Enterprise quote-based pricing by data volume and connected databases.

Free for up to 1,000 rows per download and a limited number of saved schemas.

Free trial.

Established

Mockaroo LLC · since 2014

Established

Tonic.ai · since 2018

• No code required — an analyst or tester can design a dataset themselves.
• Very large library of realistic field types including regional formats.
• Formula fields allow simple business rules between columns.

• Preserves referential integrity and statistical distribution, so applications behave as they do in production.
• Directly addresses the GDPR and HIPAA exposure created by production data in lower environments.
• Subsetting produces a small but coherent slice rather than a full copy.

• Referential integrity across related tables is limited.
• Free-tier row limits are low for realistic volume testing.
• Data is generated on a third-party service, which needs a privacy check for schema sensitivity.

• Expensive, with enterprise-only pricing.
• Initial configuration of sensitive-field classification takes real effort.
• Adds a pipeline stage that must be maintained as the schema evolves.

Quickly producing a realistic dataset for a demo, a load test or a new environment.

Organisations that currently copy production data into staging and know they should stop.