15 MB TSV sample

A TSV file of exactly 15,728,640 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 15 MB sample, test or dummy TSV file.

sample-tsv-15mb.tsv

15 MB15,728,640 bytes

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Type: text/tab-separated-values
SHA-256: 3f2ce3cba9dc78c31ffc89bcfc531bc447dce721e8cfbdf9f8be4675817e1071
Delivery: Created in your browser from static generator assets (how it works).

What is in this file

A header row and 117,131 rows of fictional customer records in 12 tab-separated columns, with no quoting. The notes field of the last row is lengthened so the file lands on the exact byte count.

Data rows	117,131
Columns	12
Delimiter	Tab
Header row	Yes
Line endings	LF
Quoting	None: no field contains a tab or a line break
Encoding	UTF-8 (ASCII characters only)

How the file begins

The opening lines of sample-tsv-15mb.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 15 MB matters

A 15,728,640-byte file, 15 MB in the binary units that operating systems and upload limits use. It is useful wherever a form, an API gateway, a storage quota or a mail server is configured with a limit of about this size.

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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 name	sample-tsv-15mb.tsv
Format	TSV (Tab-separated values)
Extension	.tsv
MIME type	text/tab-separated-values
Size	15,728,640 bytes (15 MB)
Kind	Text
SHA-256	3f2ce3cba9dc78c31ffc89bcfc531bc447dce721e8cfbdf9f8be4675817e1071
Created	2026-10-23
Validation	See 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.
Preview	Available on this page
Source	Generated in your browser by this site's generator; not copied from elsewhere
Licence	Free to use, modify and redistribute (terms)
Category	Spreadsheets

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Questions about this file

Is this file exactly 15 MB?: Yes. It is 15,728,640 bytes, which is 15 MB in the binary units that operating systems and server limits use (1 KB = 1,024 bytes).
What is inside the 15 MB TSV file?: A header row and 117,131 rows of fictional customer records in 12 tab-separated columns, with no quoting. 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.

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