5 MB TSV sample file
A TSV file of exactly 5,242,880 bytes. It is a valid Tab-separated values file, generated for this site and checked with an independent parser. Use it wherever you need a 5 MB sample, test or dummy TSV file.
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sample-tsv-5mb.tsv
5 MB5,242,880 bytes
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- Type
- text/tab-separated-values
- SHA-256
5da57842936f1a3e062fd9aa976732225d450874059f0e9c0ece5562cfccffd3- Delivery
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What is in this file
A header row and 39,228 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 | 39,228 |
|---|---|
| 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-5mb.tsv, exactly as they appear in the file.
id first_name last_name email phone city country signup_date plan balance active notes
1 Mia Brennan mia.brennan1@example.org +1-202-555-0102 Osaka JP 2023-09-27 team 1070.40 true Upgraded after a support call
2 Freya Okafor freya.okafor2@example.com +1-202-555-0152 Da Nang VN 2023-08-15 free 4871.96 true Upgraded after a support call
3 Sofia Tanaka sofia.tanaka3@example.com +1-202-555-0154 Cork IE 2022-03-02 business 1958.37 true Interested in bulk pricing
4 Tomas Weller tomas.weller4@example.com +1-202-555-0156 Utrecht NL 2023-07-12 starter 865.51 true Trial extended by two weeks
5 Kenji Quimby kenji.quimby5@example.org +1-202-555-0187 Osaka JP 2021-03-13 team 3237.65 false Reported a login issue in March
6 Priya Varga priya.varga6@example.org +1-202-555-0191 Porto Alegre BR 2023-05-24 starter 2197.88 true Requested data exportPreview
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Where 5 MB matters
A 5,242,880-byte file: the size of a phone photo and the minimum part size for S3 multipart uploads. These are the default limits a file of this size is useful for testing:
| System | Limit | Note |
|---|---|---|
| PHP | 2 MB per uploaded file by default (upload_max_filesize) | A 5 MB upload fails on an untuned PHP installation. |
| Vercel Functions | 4.5 MB request body | Larger uploads must go directly to object storage. |
| Amazon S3 multipart upload | 5 MiB minimum part size | This file is exactly one minimum part. |
| AWS Lambda | 6 MB synchronous invocation payload | 5 MB of binary data exceeds it once base64-encoded. |
| Browser localStorage | About 5 MB per origin | Storing this file as text fills the quota. |
| Django | 2.5 MB in memory by default | Larger uploads are streamed to a temporary file instead of held in memory. |
Use this file for
- Testing image resizing and memory use
- Loading test data into a database in bulk
- Testing data pipelines that split fields on tabs
Testing notes for TSV
- An importer built for CSV may treat quotation marks in a TSV file as quoting and strip them from the data.
- Windows does not open .tsv in Excel by default, so users rename files to .txt or .csv, and the extension stops describing the content.
Technical details
| File name | sample-tsv-5mb.tsv |
|---|---|
| Format | TSV (Tab-separated values) |
| Extension | .tsv |
| MIME type | text/tab-separated-values |
| Size | 5,242,880 bytes (5 MB) |
| Kind | Text |
| SHA-256 | 5da57842936f1a3e062fd9aa976732225d450874059f0e9c0ece5562cfccffd3 |
| Created | 2026-10-14 |
| Validation | Exact size, signature bytes and structure checked when the generator was built; your copy is checked against the SHA-256 after it is created |
| 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 5 MB?
- Yes. It is 5,242,880 bytes, which is 5 MB in the binary units that operating systems and server limits use (1 KB = 1,024 bytes).
- What is inside the 5 MB TSV file?
- A header row and 39,187 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 samples use quotation marks?
- No. No field contains a tab, a line break or a quotation mark, so the files read the same way under every TSV convention.