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UUIDs, in bulk.

Version 4 identifiers from your browser's cryptographic random source. Up to five hundred at a time, formatted however your system wants them.

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UUID v4 generator

Free
Runs entirely in your browser. Nothing is uploaded.

Worth knowing

How to get this right.

  1. 01

    What version 4 actually guarantees

    A v4 UUID is 122 random bits with six bits fixed to mark the version and variant. It carries no timestamp, no MAC address and no sequence — which is exactly why it is safe to expose in a URL. Nothing about it reveals when or where it was made.

  2. 02

    Collisions are not a practical concern

    You would need to generate around a billion UUIDs a second for a century to reach a 50% chance of one collision. If you see duplicates in production, the cause is a bug in how they are assigned, not the random source.

  3. 03

    They make poor primary keys in a large table

    Random UUIDs scatter inserts across a B-tree index, which fragments it and hurts write throughput at scale. If that matters, keep an auto-increment key internally and expose a UUID externally, or look at a time-sortable format like UUID v7.

Questions

About this tool.

Yes — they come from crypto.randomUUID where the browser supports it, and from crypto.getRandomValues otherwise. Both draw on the operating system's CSPRNG.
Nothing meaningful. GUID is Microsoft's name for the same 128-bit identifier. The braces option above exists because some Microsoft tooling expects that format.
Not in one go, to keep the page responsive. Click generate again for another batch — there is no daily limit.
They cannot be. Generation happens in your browser, so nobody else ever sees these values, and no two visitors share a random source.

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