# CTGAN vs Tonic.ai

**Leader by vioscaleAI score:** Tonic.ai

| Attribute | CTGAN | Tonic.ai |
|---|---|---|
| **vioscaleAI score** | 38.3 (55% (medium)) | 68.5 (75% (high)) |
| activity.commits_last_30d | 2 | - |
| adoption.dependent_repos | 29 | - |
| adoption.github_stars | 1,574 | - |
| content.faq | `[{"answer":"An open-source tool that learns patterns from real single-table datasets and generates high-quality synthetic data with preserved statistical properties, built on generative adversarial network architecture. It is indexed under Synthetic Data.","source":"https://github.com/pricing","question":"What is CTGAN?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"CTGAN is open source, so it can be self-hosted and used at no licence cost. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.","source":"https://github.com/pricing","question":"Is CTGAN free to use?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"CTGAN supports a command-line interface. Platforms we have not confirmed are simply not listed here rather than ruled out.","source":"https://github.com/pricing","question":"What platforms does CTGAN support?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Yes. CTGAN can be deployed self-hosted, so it does not have to run on the vendor's infrastructure.","source":"https://github.com/pricing","question":"Can CTGAN be self-hosted?","confidence":0.6}]` | `[{"answer":"Software that removes sensitive information from databases and unstructured data, replacing it with realistic synthetic alternatives. Organizations use it to meet privacy regulations while giving development and AI teams safe access to production-like data. It is indexed under Synthetic Data.","source":"https://www.tonic.ai","question":"What is Tonic.ai?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Tonic.ai offers a free tier, so you can start without paying. Paid plans start at $29 per month. Prices are published openly on the vendor's own pricing page. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.","source":"https://www.tonic.ai/pricing","question":"Is Tonic.ai free?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have confirmed browser-based access to Tonic.ai. That is the extent of what we could verify from public sources, so it may well offer desktop or mobile clients we have not indexed.","source":"https://www.tonic.ai","question":"What platforms does Tonic.ai support?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Yes. Tonic.ai can be deployed cloud / SaaS and self-hosted, so it does not have to run on the vendor's infrastructure.","source":"https://www.tonic.ai","question":"Can Tonic.ai be self-hosted?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have confirmed 18 integrations for Tonic.ai, including Salesforce, Spark, Snowflake, Databricks, AWS Marketplace, Google Cloud Marketplace, GitHub and LlamaIndex, plus 10 more. This is what we could verify from public sources, so the vendor may support others we have not indexed.","source":"https://www.tonic.ai","question":"What does Tonic.ai integrate with?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have independently confirmed SOC 2, HIPAA and GDPR for Tonic.ai. Certifications we do not list are ones we have not been able to verify from public sources, which is not the same as Tonic.ai not holding them. Always confirm compliance directly before you rely on it.","source":"https://www.tonic.ai/solutions/use-case/compliance","question":"What security certifications does Tonic.ai have?","confidence":0.7}]` |
| deployment.options | `{"self_hosted":true}` | `{"cloud":true,"hybrid":true,"self_hosted":true}` |
| description.long | An open-source synthetic data generator that uses Conditional GANs to learn patterns from real tabular data and produce high-fidelity synthetic versions for analysis and testing. | A platform that creates realistic synthetic datasets for software testing and AI model training, either by de-identifying production data or generating new data from scratch using AI agents and foundation models. |
| features.capabilities | `{"deployment":"self_host","open_source":true,"pricing_model":"open_source","industry_focus":"horizontal","generation_method":"GAN","fidelity_utility_reporting":true}` | `{"soc2":true,"deployment":"both","open_source":false,"pricing_model":"usage-based","industry_focus":"other-regulated","hipaa_available":true,"masking_included":true,"ci_cd_integration":true,"generation_method":"LLM/transformer","privacy_risk_scoring":true,"relational_integrity":true,"fidelity_utility_reporting":true}` |
| integrations.count | 2 | 8 |
| integrations.list | `[{"name":"SDV ecosystem"},{"name":"Python packages"}]` | `[{"name":"Salesforce"},{"name":"Spark"},{"name":"Snowflake"},{"name":"Databricks"},{"name":"AWS Marketplace"},{"name":"Google Cloud Marketplace"},{"name":"GitHub"},{"name":"LlamaIndex"},{"name":"Haystack"},{"name":"Ragas"},{"name":"Microsoft Fabric"},{"name":"OpenAI"},{"name":"Cohere"},{"name":"Amazon Bedrock"},{"name":"Release"},{"name":"PostgreSQL","native":true,"category":"database","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"Oracle","native":true,"category":"database","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"Amazon Aurora","native":true,"category":"database","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"GitHub Actions","native":false,"category":"ci_cd","direction":"outbound"},{"name":"AWS","native":true,"category":"cloud"},{"name":"Azure","native":true,"category":"cloud"},{"name":"Okta","native":true,"category":"sso"}]` |
| language.primary | Python | - |
| market.availability | - | `{"primaryMarkets":[],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` |
| platform.support | `{"cli":true,"web":true}` | `{"web":true}` |
| pricing | `{"type":"open_source","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://github.com/pricing","retrievedAt":"2026-10-15T20:21:20.070Z"}` | `{"type":"hybrid","plans":[{"free":true,"name":"Free","summary":"$0/month with $5 monthly credits","features":["$5 monthly credits","Support via Discord","Tonic Cloud deployment"],"description":"Free tier with monthly usage credits","contactSales":false},{"free":false,"name":"Individual","summary":"$29/month with $25 credits plus metered usage beyond","features":["$25 monthly credits","Support via Discord and email","Tonic Cloud deployment","Data Agent","Mock APIs","Automated Workflows"],"components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":29,"period":"month","currency":"USD"},{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"turn"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.17,"currency":"USD"}],"description":"Monthly subscription with included credits and metered overage charges","contactSales":false},{"free":false,"name":"Enterprise","summary":"Custom pricing with dedicated support and full feature access","features":["Centralized billing","Dedicated customer support","Multiple workspaces with RBAC","SSO/SAML authentication","Tonic Cloud or self-hosted deployment","Data Agent","Mock APIs","Automated Workflows","Plan Mode","Bring your own LLM API key"],"description":"Custom pricing for advanced enterprise deployment and features","contactSales":true}],"summary":"From $29/month with free tier. Hybrid subscription and usage-based pricing.","currency":"USD","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.tonic.ai/pricing","retrievedAt":"2026-10-12T16:13:17.723Z","startingPrice":{"amount":29,"period":"month","currency":"USD"},"billingPeriods":["month","year"]}` |
| pricing.free_tier | yes | yes |
| pricing.model | open_source | freemium |
| pricing.price_level | free | mid |
| pricing.starting_price | - | `{"amount":29,"currency":"USD"}` |
| pricing.transparent | - | yes |
| release.cadence_days | 70 | - |
| release.history | `[{"url":"https://github.com/sdv-dev/CTGAN/releases/tag/v0.12.1","date":"2026-02-13T03:09:04Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.12.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/sdv-dev/CTGAN/releases/tag/v0.12.0","date":"2026-01-27T21:27:45Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.12.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/sdv-dev/CTGAN/releases/tag/v0.11.1","date":"2025-10-30T21:27:27Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.11.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/sdv-dev/CTGAN/releases/tag/v0.11.0","date":"2025-02-26T20:06:21Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.11.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/sdv-dev/CTGAN/releases/tag/v0.10.2","date":"2024-10-22T15:46:16Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.10.2"},{"url":"https://github.com/sdv-dev/CTGAN/releases/tag/v0.10.1","date":"2024-05-13T15:40:02Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.10.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/sdv-dev/CTGAN/releases/tag/v0.10.0","date":"2024-04-11T20:29:56Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.10.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/sdv-dev/CTGAN/releases/tag/v0.9.1","date":"2024-03-14T15:07:37Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.9.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/sdv-dev/CTGAN/releases/tag/v0.9.0","date":"2024-02-13T21:29:13Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.9.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/sdv-dev/CTGAN/releases/tag/v0.8.0","date":"2023-11-13T18:57:49Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.8.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/sdv-dev/CTGAN/releases/tag/v0.7.5","date":"2023-10-05T21:42:57Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.7.5"},{"url":"https://github.com/sdv-dev/CTGAN/releases/tag/v0.7.4","date":"2023-07-27T18:09:51Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.7.4"},{"url":"https://github.com/sdv-dev/CTGAN/releases/tag/v0.7.3","date":"2023-05-25T18:59:45Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.7.3"},{"url":"https://github.com/sdv-dev/CTGAN/releases/tag/v0.7.2","date":"2023-05-09T17:54:18Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.7.2"},{"url":"https://github.com/sdv-dev/CTGAN/releases/tag/v0.7.1","date":"2023-02-23T22:28:31Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.7.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/sdv-dev/CTGAN/releases/tag/v0.7.0","date":"2023-01-20T22:24:40Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.7.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/sdv-dev/CTGAN/releases/tag/v0.6.0","date":"2022-10-07T17:31:56Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.6.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/sdv-dev/CTGAN/releases/tag/v0.5.2","date":"2022-08-19T03:12:10Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.5.2"},{"url":"https://github.com/sdv-dev/CTGAN/releases/tag/v0.5.1","date":"2022-02-25T20:53:38Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.5.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/sdv-dev/CTGAN/releases/tag/v0.5.0","date":"2021-11-18T21:42:32Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.5.0"}]` | - |
| security.certifications | - | `[{"name":"SOC 2 Type II","status":"active"}]` |
| security.gdpr | - | yes |
| security.hipaa | - | yes |
| security.pci | - | yes |
| security.scorecard | 4.4 | - |
| security.soc2 | - | yes |
| security.trust_center | https://github.com/security | https://www.tonic.ai/solutions/use-case/compliance |
| security.vulnerabilities | `{"count":0,"source":"https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=pypi&package_name=ctgan&per_page=100","last_12m":0,"max_severity":null}` | - |

## Capabilities (Synthetic Data)

| Capability | CTGAN | Tonic.ai |
|---|:--:|:--:|
| **Capabilities** |  |  |
| Generation method | GAN | LLM/transformer |
| Relational integrity | - | ✓ |
| Differential privacy | - | - |
| Privacy risk scoring | - | ✓ |
| Fidelity utility reporting | ✓ | ✓ |
| Masking included | - | ✓ |
| Deployment | Self host | Both |
| Open source | ✓ | ✗ |
| Ci cd integration | - | ✓ |
| Industry focus | Horizontal | Other regulated |
| SOC2 | - | ✓ |
| HIPAA available | - | ✓ |
| Pricing model | Open source | Usage based |

*Source: vioscaleAI. Generated 2026-10-15T21:19:18.115Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*