A Tonic.ai alternative for a developer on a Mac

Tonic Structural turns production into safe test data for whole organisations, with custom pricing, compliance audits and connectors for data warehouses. If what you need is a masked copy of your app's database on your own Mac, dbplex does that with a price on the page and a 7-day trial.

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For Apple Silicon Macs. 7 days free with every feature. No card and no account.

Tonic Structural: Custom pricing
Self-hosted needs: x86, 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM
Apple silicon: Not for self-hosting
dbplex: From $12.99 a month

Which one fits

Tonic is built for a company's data team; dbplex for the developer who needs a safe copy today.

Pick Tonic if

You need audited tooling: SOC 2 and HIPAA audits, BAAs, SSO and role-based access.
You de-identify data warehouses such as Snowflake, Databricks or BigQuery.
You need subsetting and synthetic data across a whole organisation.

Pick dbplex if

You want masked data on your own Mac today, without a sales call.
You want a price on the page and a trial with no card.
You need Firestore, Redis, DynamoDB or Turso, which Structural's connector list does not include.
You want your AI agent on the copy through MCP.

Tonic and dbplex, side by side

Tonic Structural and dbplex, for one developer's copy of production.

	Tonic	dbplex
Who it is for	Mid-size and enterprise teams.	A developer on a Mac.
Price	Professional and Enterprise are priced on request. Pay as you go was discontinued.	$12.99 a month, or $79.99 for a year of updates, after 7 free days.
Where it runs	Structural Cloud, or self-hosted on Docker or Kubernetes, which its docs say cannot run on Apple silicon Macs.	On your Mac, on Apple silicon.
Personal data	De-identification generators, with subsetting.	Masked as the copy is pulled on Postgres, Supabase, MySQL, MariaDB, Turso, SQL Server and Oracle. You confirm each column.
Synthetic data	Tonic Fabricate, $0 or $29 a month.	None.
Databases	Postgres, MySQL, SQL Server, MongoDB and warehouses such as Snowflake and Databricks. Oracle on Enterprise.	12 app databases, including Supabase, Firestore, Redis, Turso, DynamoDB and Oracle.
Your data	In Tonic's cloud or on infrastructure you run.	On your Mac. Copies and credentials are never sent to dbplex.

Questions about Tonic and dbplex

How much does Tonic Structural cost?

Its Professional and Enterprise plans are priced on request, and its docs say the pay as you go plan was discontinued. Tonic Fabricate, for synthetic data, is $0 or $29 a month.

Can Tonic run on my Mac?

Not self-hosted on Apple silicon: its system requirements say Structural cannot be deployed on Apple silicon Macs. Structural Cloud runs in Tonic's cloud.