Every category where a model named Tonic.ai for a mid-market B2B company. Share is first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts; rank is within every product named in that category.

Category	Function	Share	Rank	Negative rate	Labels	Quadrant	Since September 2026
Data masking and test data management	Data platform	11%	2 of 140	0%	20	accepted challenger

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Tonic.ai yet. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment and per category, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated Tonic.ai across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.

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Model	First choice	Alternative	Mention	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	1	0	1
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	4	0	0	4
Perplexity Sonar	0	0	0	0
Grok 4.1 Fast	1	0	3	4
Mistral Small	0	0	0	0
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	1	2	3
Llama 4 Maverick	0	1	0	1
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	1	0	1
Kimi K2	0	1	1	2
GLM 4.7 FlashX	1	0	0	1
MiniMax M2.5	0	0	0	0
GPT-6 Luna	0	1	0	1
Muse Glimmer 30B	1	0	1	2

By framing

Which of the six questions produced the naming. By model says how often; this says asked what. The first-choice count on the right carries the marks of the models that produced it.

FramingLabels by classFirst choices

Direct11 labels6

Paraphrase8 labels4

Comparative12 labels4not counted in share

Budget-constrained6 labelsNone

Scale-constrained8 labels3

Negative4 labels1not counted in share

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative49 labels in all, every segment counted; 13 of the 18 first choices count toward share, since the comparative and negative framings do not. The bar is one segment per label class, to scale within the framing.

What the models said for it

Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.

“If your focus is DevOps, test data, and engineering: Evaluate developer-friendly tools like Tonic.ai, DataMasque, or Autonoma.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Data masking · scale prompt · first choice

“For broader/multi-cloud B2B use, Tonic.ai stands out for affordability, modern UI, and high G2-like reviews for mid-market teams.” Grok 4.1 Fast · Data masking · direct prompt · first choice

“Start with Tonic.ai. Their free tier allows you to test masking capabilities immediately without cost.” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Data masking · direct prompt · first choice

“Go with Tonic.ai if you are a modern development shop that wants high-fidelity synthetic data” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Data masking · comparative prompt · first choice

And against it

Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.

No model argued against it.

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Tonic.ai, over the 49 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Tonic.ai was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Delphix31 of 494Compare →

K2View Test Data Management25 of 493Compare →

Informatica Intelligent Data Management Cloud23 of 493Not among the top eight

IRI FieldShield17 of 495Compare →

DATPROF16 of 492Compare →

Oracle Data Masking and Subsetting15 of 492Compare →

Greenmask11 of 496Not among the top eight

IBM InfoSphere Optim11 of 490Not among the top eight

PostgreSQL Anonymizer10 of 492Not among the top eight

Immuta7 of 490Not among the top eight

A head-to-head page exists where both products are among a category's top eight. The other rows are the same fact without a page behind them, so they link to the product instead.

What carried it into the answer

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named Tonic.ai. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 48 of the 49 answers that named Tonic.ai and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

ovaledge.com32

k2view.com24

thectoclub.com21

hevodata.com20

tonic.aiYour site20

iri.com19

getautonoma.com18

atlan.com17

sourceforge.net17

g2.com16

184 of the 204 domain citations in answers naming Tonic.ai came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

ovaledge.com/blog/data-masking-tools28

hevodata.com/learn/data-masking-tools20

iri.com/support/data-education-center/the-top-15-data-masking-tools-in-202619

atlan.com/data-masking-tools17

getautonoma.com/blog/data-masking-tools17

softwaretestinghelp.com/data-masking-tools15

thectoclub.com/tools/best-data-masking-software14

kanerika.com/blogs/data-masking-tools13

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

tonic.ai ranks 3 on Google for the category's searches. In the answers, Tonic.ai takes 11% of first choices and DATPROF takes 17%.

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In search

Google, US estimates

Position for “data masking tool”

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not in the top ten

Position for “data masking tools”

Searches for its name, Google: 590 a month (“tonic.ai”)
AI search demand for its name, est.: 6 a month
Organic visits to its site: about 7,631 a month
Searches its site ranks for: 1,356 · 100 in the top three
Sites linking to it: 1,953
Paid Google search: No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none

Ads on GoogleDetailLess

81 ads · 80 text, 1 image · 17 shown in the last 30 days

First shown December 2023, as Tonic AI, Inc., verified. Ads started 2025-11 to 2026-10: 52 in the year, 29 before.

On Google's pages: 1 2 3 4

In answers

This edition

Share of first choices

11%

rank 2 of 140 in data masking

Segment leader

17%

DATPROF

First choices: 13 across its categories
Named in: 49 answers
Its own site cited: in 48 of the answers that named it

Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read October 5, 2026; AI search demand is its modeled, directional estimate, not a count of queries to any assistant. The answers are this edition's. Two measurements side by side: neither is read as the cause of the other.

What it publishes

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Addresses on tonic.ai

2,742

subdomains included

Content

474

counted in the table below

Documentation

652

Product · Integration

21 · 8

Kind	Pages	Last 90 days	Latest	Categories named
Blog	138	8	2026-09-23	Data catalogs
Report or ebook	98	1	2026-07-14	Compliance automation
Template or tool	84	undated
Webinar or virtual event	37	undated
Glossary or explainer	37	undated
News or press	26	undated		Data catalogs
Conference or event	19	undated
Comparison	18	5	2026-07-22
Case study	17	1	2026-07-07

Most recent

2026-09-23De identification ai data licensing blog
2026-09-04Who should de identify company data blog
2026-08-13Why agentic ai projects get canceled blog
2026-08-07Announcing distillery open source ai gateway blog
2026-08-04Testing agents with agency blog
2026-07-30Agent evals data problem blog

Events in person

Last twelve months

March 9, 2026 to March 12, 2026HIMSS26Las Vegas · attended
February 22, 2026 to February 25, 2026ViVE 2026Los Angeles, US · attended

As the event pages on tonic.ai state them, read October 5, 2026.

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Every page tonic.ai exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. An event counts as online when its address or title says so (webinar, on demand, virtual or online summit); a conference, summit, trade show, expo or roadshow that does not say so is counted as a conference or event, which on a vendor's site is mostly in person. Read October 5, 2026.

Names read as Tonic.ai

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Tonic.ai; a claim can dispute any of them.

Tonic.ai (Tonic Structural) 2Tonic.ai (Structural) 1

Follow Tonic.ai

An email the morning each edition publishes: where this product moved, where it held, and by how much against the noise floor. One address, confirmed by a click; a stop link in every email.

Already following? Everything you follow, with a stop for each.

The company

Tonic.ai is its own company.

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In its own words

Stated by the vendor, not checked

Positioning: a synthetic data platform that gives engineering and AI teams on-demand access to safe, realistic data for software development, testing, and AI model training
tonic.ai
For: engineering and AI teams
tonic.ai
Price stated: Free $0 per month; Plus $29 per month; Enterprise Custom pricing; Professional Custom pricing; Pay-as-you-go; Custom Pricing tonic.ai/pricing
Starting price: 0 tonic.ai/pricing
Free plan or trial: Start free tonic.ai
Certifications: HIPAAPCIGDPRSOC 2SOC 2 Type IIHIPAA attestationsBusiness Associate Agreements (BAAs)
Customers named: Patterson CompaniesWellthyFlexporteBayPaytientHonePax8Everlywell
Not stated on the pages read: Integrations, hosting

What Tonic.ai's own pages state, read October 5, 2026: tonic.ai, tonic.ai/pricing, trust.tonic.ai, tonic.ai/products/textual, tonic.ai/customers. A claimed page can correct any of them.

Is this your product?

Claim this page

Claiming is free and changes nothing in the data. A claimed page shows a verified contact who is told when each edition publishes and when Tonic.ai's standing changes by more than the noise floor; the right to propose corrections to the vendor table, meaning names the judge wrote that should or should not read as Tonic.ai, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.

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A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Tonic.ai by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:

where Tonic.ai is named, by buyer and by framing, and which cells hold its first choices;
the claims the models make when they name it, ranked, with the strongest and the weakest quoted;
its vocabulary against the segment leader's, and the pages the models cited;
who was chosen in the answers that did not name Tonic.ai, and every reason the record gives;
a battlecard for each top rival: the head-to-head split, why they win, and the reservation quoted against them;
one page of published figures cleared to show a buyer.

Badges

Wins only: a badge exists where Tonic.ai is ranked in a category's top three this edition. Three sizes, one file each, light and dark; the code is under each.

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Tonic.ai is among the products AI models recommend first in Data masking and test data management this edition. Each badge says so in the buyer's words, names the edition, and links to the standing. The next edition issues a new badge; this one stays true as a record of October 2026.

Wide · 320 × 104 Website, beside other badges

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Copy the code as it is. The link is part of the badge: it points at the Data masking and test data management standing, where the claim can be checked.

Badges read on light and dark pages. Alt text carries the claim, the category, the edition and the index, so it stays a citation where the image does not load.