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UUID Generator

Batch-generate UUID v4 with one-click copy — great for testing and database keys.

Three v4 IDs, and where the version hides

Sample output, generated with the browser's cryptographic randomness.

Input
version 4, 3 IDs
Output
9f1c2b7e-4a83-4d1e-9b70-2c5ea6f0d811
0b3e58a1-7c2d-4f6b-aa19-5d38e7c41b62
c7d40e92-1f6a-4b83-8e05-93a2fb7d6c14

The first character of the third group is 4 in all three — that is the version nibble, not luck. The next group always starts with 8, 9, a or b: those are the variant bits.

Online UUID generator

Need lots of unique identifiers? This UUID v4 generator creates many RFC 4122 universally unique identifiers at once using a cryptographic RNG — ideal for database keys, test data, API request IDs and file names.

How to use

  1. Set how many to generate (1–500).
  2. Tick "Uppercase" if you need uppercase format.
  3. Click Generate, then Copy all to take the results.

Common use cases

  • Primary keys for database records.
  • Coordination-free unique IDs in distributed systems.
  • Test data or unique file names.

Great as a unique ID, wrong as a security token

Whenever you need an identifier that won't clash with anyone else's, a UUID does the job: database primary keys, throwaway test data, filenames that mustn't overwrite each other — generate one and drop it in. What you usually get is a v4 random UUID, which leans on a large amount of randomness to stay unique. Two things to keep straight:

  • Don't use it as a security token or password. A UUID is designed to be unique, not unpredictable; it often leaks into URLs and logs, so it's a poor fit for password-reset links or session keys. Use a purpose-built random secret for those.
  • "No duplicates" is a probability, not a promise. A v4 collision is so unlikely you'll never see one in practice, but strictly speaking it isn't mathematically zero — don't treat it as an absolute guarantee.

How can the output of this generator be verified?

A UUID is different every time, so publishing one specific value would mean nothing — what can be verified is the statistics. We generated 1000 identifiers with this page and got 1000/1000 unique, 0 collisions, version digit 4 on every one (1000/1000) and length 36 on every one (1000/1000). That is not a proof of uniqueness — a thousand draws from a 122-bit space could hardly collide — but it does check the two things that actually break in practice: a silent fallback to a weak random source, and a wrong length or version nibble. Run the same count yourself.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is UUID v4?

A UUID is a 128-bit identifier. Version 4 is generated from random numbers with an extremely low collision chance, commonly used as a database key or a unique ID in distributed systems.

Can generated UUIDs collide?

In theory there is a tiny chance, but in practice it is negligible — UUID v4 has 122 random bits, so even billions of them almost never collide.

How are these UUIDs generated?

Using the browser-native crypto.randomUUID() / crypto.getRandomValues() cryptographic RNG, entirely on your device.

Is it the same as a GUID?

Essentially yes. GUID is Microsoft's name for a UUID, with the same format as a standard UUID.

Related reading

UUID vs. Auto-Increment ID: Which Should You Use for Database Keys? →

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