Question 1

What is Generate-Data?

Accepted Answer

Generate-Data is a cloud-based platform for creating synthetic datasets for development, testing, demos, and simulations. You configure data templates and generation settings through your account and download realistic but fictional data in CSV, JSON, Parquet, or other formats. All generated data is non-production and intended for safe use in dev/test environments.

Question 2

What is Generate-Data used for?

Accepted Answer

Generate-Data generates realistic synthetic data for frontend and API testing, database seeding, data quality testing, and fuzzy/exact duplicate testing for niche and industry-specific use cases. Developers and data teams use it to produce test data without exposing real user information.

Question 3

How does Generate-Data support match & merge and duplicate testing?

Accepted Answer

Generate-Data creates test data with fuzzy and exact duplicates. It generates exact duplicates (same record, minor formatting differences) and fuzzy duplicates (realistic variations like nicknames, typos, and address abbreviations). Output includes Master ID and Duplicate Type columns so you can test deduplication, record linkage, and match & merge pipelines.

Question 4

What pre-built test datasets are available?

Accepted Answer

Generate-Data offers a catalog of free, pre-generated testing datasets. You can download ready-to-use datasets for common scenarios (customers, orders, products, and more) in CSV, JSON, XML, and Parquet—no configuration required.

Question 5

Can I generate data without signing up?

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Yes. Without an account, you can generate up to 3 requests per day per IP address, with a maximum of 100 rows and 6 columns per request. Sign up for a free account to raise these limits and access additional export formats.

Question 6

How do I sign up or log in?

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We use passwordless authentication. Enter your email address and we send you a one-time 6-character code. Enter the code to sign in or create your account. No password to remember. If the email is new, we create your account and send the same code—you’ll be asked to agree to our Terms of Use the first time you sign in.

Question 7

How does data generation work?

Accepted Answer

You choose or create a dataset template, configure fields (types, options, and rules), set how many rows you want, and pick an export format. The system generates fake but realistic data (names, dates, IDs, etc.) based on your configuration. You can reuse templates and tweak settings anytime.

Question 8

How do fuzzy and exact duplicates work?

Accepted Answer

Use Data Realism → Dirty / Fuzzy. The generator builds each record, then adds extra rows that repeat them with typos, formatting drift, nicknames, and similar variations. That path replaces the old Distinct / Non-distinct Duplicates control. Pre-built catalog datasets for match and merge testing still ship with Master ID and Duplicate Type columns where documented.

Question 9

What is the Master ID column?

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On labeled match and merge / duplicate test datasets, the output includes a Master ID column and a Duplicate Type column. All records that represent the same logical entity share the same Master ID. Duplicate Type labels how a row varies from the master (for example EXACT or FUZZY). This lets you group duplicates for deduplication or testing record linkage.

Question 10

Where do I manage my account and settings?

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Click your profile or “Settings” in the header when signed in. From there you can update your account details and preferences. Email preferences and cookie settings have their own pages linked from the footer.

Question 11

How is my data and information handled?

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We process data according to our Privacy Policy and Terms of Use. Generated datasets are produced on our systems; we don’t use your generated data for training models. For more detail, see our Privacy Policy and Terms of Use.

Question 12

How can I get help or contact support?

Accepted Answer

For product questions or technical issues, contact us at support@generate-data.com. We provide async support and aim to respond as soon as we can. You can also use the “Report a bug” option in the app if you’ve found a technical issue.

Question 13

What are the limits with a free account?

Accepted Answer

Signed in, you can generate up to 50,000 rows and 50 columns per request, in every export format, with up to 1,000 exports per day, at no cost. Paid plans aren’t on sale right now, so every signed-in account gets these limits.

Question 14

What happens to my price and limits if I’m already a paying customer?

Accepted Answer

If you’re already a paying customer, we honor your current price through your next renewal, and we give at least 30 days’ advance notice before any plan limit change takes effect on your account. If you were explicitly promised a higher row count (for example, 100,000 rows), contact support@generate-data.com and we’ll arrange a complimentary data-volume grant — this is handled directly by our support team, not a self-service or automatic process.

Question 15

Do you guarantee results or offer a refund?

Accepted Answer

No. None of our engagement offers, including Match Rule Validation, carry a performance guarantee of any kind. You run your current match rules against a labeled ground-truth dataset — or let us run them — and we hand back the scored results; you review what comes back and decide what to do with it. We don’t offer refunds tied to those results — for billing-related exceptions such as technical failures, duplicate charges, or other billing errors, see our Refund Policy.

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