DataVeil vs Tonic.ai

DataVeil masks sensitive SQL database data with fictitious values for testing, development, training, analytics and support. It supports Microsoft SQL Server 2014 or later, Azure SQL DB and MI, MySQL 5.7 or later, Oracle 12c or later, and PostgreSQL 14 or later. Choose random masking or deterministic masking, which can keep values consistent across databases and separate runs. Masks can retain value formats and partial content to help preserve statistical distributions. Discovery algorithms check suspected identifiers and account numbers, and users can add regular-expression patterns. DataVeil maintains referential integrity for defined foreign keys and supports user-defined dependencies. Before writing masked values, users can compare originals and results side by side. Projects run from the GUI, command line or batch files. The Community license includes generated PDF reports and automatically multi-threaded masking. It runs as a Java client with an embedded JDK 21 and uses JDBC. The free Community License never expires and covers databases up to 10GB. The Team license is $5,690 a year for an example configuration; its price depends on connectivity options and source-data size.

Tonic.ai is a synthetic data platform for software development, testing, and AI model training. Its suite includes Fabricate for generating synthetic data, Structural for transforming production data into test data, and Textual for redacting or synthesizing unstructured data. Fabricate’s Data Agent can generate relational databases and unstructured datasets through conversational prompts; the pricing page also lists mock APIs. Structural detects personal and health information, applies masking and synthesis while preserving relationships, and supports database subsetting with referential integrity. Textual provides automatic redaction, reversible tokenization, optional synthetic replacement, and Python SDK and REST API workflows. Listed sources include PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, SQL Server, MongoDB, Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift, Databricks, Salesforce, and flat files. Textual lists native support for formats such as PDF, DOCX, images, spreadsheets, and JSON. Tonic says employees do not access customer data and that the platform does not store it; its controls include least-privilege access and an independently maintained SOC 2 report. Fabricate offers a free plan and a Plus plan at $29 a month. Structural Professional is limited to 10TB of source data, 10 users, and two source types.