What are the best AI tools for generating synthetic data?
Asked "What are the best AI tools for generating synthetic data?", ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Google AI Mode and Copilot named 19 distinct tools across 5 answers on September 7, 2026, and 9 of them in two or more answers.
9 of 19 names confirmed · named in 2 or more of 5 answers · asked September 7, 2026 · 5 engines
The best AI tools for generating synthetic data are MOSTLY AI, Tonic.ai, Gretel, Syntho, and SDV, each excelling in different use cases. MOSTLY AI is best for high-fidelity tabular and relational data, while Gretel is suitable for developers and AI engineers. Tonic.ai is ideal for creating realistic dev/test data from production databases. Syntho and SDV are also strong options, with Syntho focusing on privacy-first enterprises and SDV being an open-source solution for researchers and ML practitioners.
- 1MOSTLY AInamed in 5 of 5 answers
- 2Tonic.ainamed in 5 of 5 answers
- 3Synthesis AInamed in 3 of 5 answers
- 4Fakernamed in 3 of 5 answers
- 5Gretelnamed in 2 of 5 answers
- 6Synthetic Data Vaultnamed in 2 of 5 answers
- 7Synthonamed in 2 of 5 answers
- 8K2Viewnamed in 2 of 5 answers
- 9Hazynamed in 2 of 5 answers
- 10Gretel AInamed in 1 of 5 answersone answer
- 11Gretel.ainamed in 1 of 5 answersone answer
- 12Datagennamed in 1 of 5 answersone answer
- 13YDatanamed in 1 of 5 answersone answer
- 14NVIDIA NeMonamed in 1 of 5 answersone answer
- 15SDVnamed in 1 of 5 answersone answer
- 16IBM watsonx.ainamed in 1 of 5 answersone answer
- 17NVIDIA Omniverse Replicatornamed in 1 of 5 answersone answer
- 18Datomizenamed in 1 of 5 answersone answer
- 19MDClonenamed in 1 of 5 answersone answer
The full measurement
- The position each of the 5 engines gave all 19 names.
- How many of the 5 answers named each of them.
- 37 sampled observations behind this ranking, and where the engines disagree.
- Fan-out — the query each engine actually searched.
- Every citation, and the sources nobody cited.