For AI / ML teams

Australian training and test data. No PII, no privacy review.

Privacy-preserving synthetic Australian demographic data, calibrated to ABS Census 2021, for ML training, customer profiling, demo data, and fairness testing.

Get the free 5k sampleRead the methodologyFree 5k sample · open-source validator

Built for ML / AI workflows

  • Hugging Face dataset
  • Pandas / Polars / PyTorch / TensorFlow ready
  • Parquet / CSV / Arrow
  • Validated to SRMSE 0.05
  • 8 demographic profiles
  • Family + dwelling structure preserved
  • 15,343 suburb granularity
  • Geographically coherent
  • Commercial license

Products

Self-serve. Pay as you go. Free tiers available.

Profile Scoring API

Send only the distinct, de-identified demographic combinations in any dataset (never raw records), and get the matching Australian profile for each. For segmentation, personas, and sizing.

1 credit per 100 combinations.

Individual-level Data

Bulk synthetic Australian population records (up to 27.5M), individual-level, ABS Census 2021 calibrated. For ML training, fine-tuning, demos.

Free 5,000-row sample on Hugging Face.

Validator (web + library)

Test an ML model for bias against Australian demographics, in the browser wizard or the open-source Python library. Free tier uses the 5k sample.

Free · MIT licensed.

Validator Pro

The full fairness audit against the entire national dataset (~27.5M records). Production-grade power; runs async in minutes.

50 credits per run.

Methodology, briefly

Generated from ABS Census 2021 conditional tables via Bayesian reconstruction with Gibbs sampling, preserving the real cross-tabs between age, sex, income, occupation, education, industry, household and dwelling.

Population marginals match real Census at 99.9%+; cross-tab fidelity sits at median person-level SRMSE 0.05 across 15,343 suburbs, adjusted to 2025–26. Read the full methodology →

Pricing

Free tier: 5 credits per week (never expires), the free 5k Hugging Face sample, and the open-source validator free tier.

Paid credits start at $10. 1 credit = 500 synthetic records; bundles never expire. See all pricing →

FAQ

  • Is synthetic data really good enough for ML training?

    For population-level features (income, age, occupation, education, family structure) calibrated to a real Census, yes. AUSynth preserves the joint distributions between variables, not just the marginals, so models learn the same correlations they would from the underlying real data. The catch: synthetic data can't substitute for your real customer signal. Use AUSynth for the demographic substrate, your own data for the business outcomes you're modelling.

  • How does this compare to differential privacy?

    Differential privacy adds calibrated noise to query results from a real dataset. AUSynth doesn't query a real dataset at all. Every record is generated from public Census conditionals, so there's no per-individual privacy budget to spend.

  • Can I use this for commercial models?

    Yes. The credit bundles include commercial use rights. Cite as: Verosynthea AUSynth v1.0 (2026). verosynthea.com.

  • Can I use AUSynth to fine-tune LLMs?

    Yes. We provide a row-to-text workflow that converts AUSynth records into natural-language descriptions suitable for LoRA fine-tuning, RLHF datasets, and instruction tuning. See /use-cases/llm-fine-tuning for the full pattern.

  • What's the difference between the Validator free and Pro tiers?

    The free tier (web wizard or open-source Python library) tests your model against a 5,000-row sample, enough to catch obvious bias. Pro runs the same fairness metrics against the FULL national dataset (~27.5M records) for compliance-grade audits; runs are async (5–15 min) at 50 credits each.

Ready to try it?

Start with the free Hugging Face sample (no signup needed), or test a model for bias right now.

Australian training and test data - Verosynthea