100 MB TSV sample

A TSV file of exactly 104,857,600 bytes. It is a valid Tab-separated values file, generated by this site. Compare its checksum and test it with the parser used by your application. Use it wherever you need a 100 MB sample, test or dummy TSV file.

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sample-tsv-100mb.tsv

100 MB104,857,600 bytes

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Type
text/tab-separated-values
SHA-256
cf2d10ff0dae208822bda8884601c9b4118f82bab1111e64ab3ac5e092fa52d3
Delivery
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What is in this file

A header row and 771,624 rows of fictional customer records in 12 tab-separated columns. The notes field of the last row is lengthened so the file lands on the exact byte count.

Data rows771,624
Columns12
Header rowYes
EncodingUTF-8 (ASCII characters only)

How the file begins

The opening lines of sample-tsv-100mb.tsv, exactly as they appear in the file.

00000000  69 64 09 66 69 72 73 74  5f 6e 61 6d 65 09 6c 61 |id.first_name.la|
00000010  73 74 5f 6e 61 6d 65 09  65 6d 61 69 6c 09 70 68 |st_name.email.ph|
00000020  6f 6e 65 09 63 69 74 79  09 63 6f 75 6e 74 72 79 |one.city.country|
00000030  09 73 69 67 6e 75 70 5f  64 61 74 65 09 70 6c 61 |.signup_date.pla|

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Where 100 MB matters

A 104,857,600-byte file: the request-body limit of Cloudflare's Free and Pro plans, and the size above which GitHub rejects a file outright.

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Use this file for

  • Measuring download speed from your own server or CDN
  • Testing data pipelines that split fields on tabs
  • Testing import features that accept more than one delimiter

Testing notes for TSV

  • Windows does not open .tsv in Excel by default, so users rename files to .txt or .csv, and the extension stops describing the content.
  • A field cannot contain a tab or a line break. Exporters deal with that in incompatible ways: some write backslash escapes such as \t, some apply CSV-style quotation marks, and some corrupt the row.

TSV format reference

Technical details

File namesample-tsv-100mb.tsv
FormatTSV (Tab-separated values)
Extension.tsv
MIME typetext/tab-separated-values
Size104,857,600 bytes (100 MB)
KindText
SHA-256cf2d10ff0dae208822bda8884601c9b4118f82bab1111e64ab3ac5e092fa52d3
Created2026-10-23
ValidationSee the listed size and SHA-256. Small downloads are checked in the browser; verify streamed downloads manually. A hash match does not prove parser compatibility.
PreviewAvailable on this page
SourceGenerated in your browser by this site's generator; not copied from elsewhere
LicenceFree to use, modify and redistribute (terms)
CategorySpreadsheets

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Questions about this file

Is this file exactly 100 MB?
Yes. It is 104,857,600 bytes, which is 100 MB in the binary units that operating systems and server limits use (1 KB = 1,024 bytes).
What is inside the 100 MB TSV file?
A header row and 771,624 rows of fictional customer records in 12 tab-separated columns. The notes field of the last row is lengthened so the file lands on the exact byte count.
Do the TSV and CSV samples hold the same data?
Yes. Both have the same twelve columns of fictional customer records. The TSV files use tabs and LF line endings where the CSV files use commas and CRLF.