# Synthetic data

URL: https://aidataforsale.com/glossary/synthetic-data
Publisher: AI Data For Sale (Marketing Signals Ltd)
Updated: 2026-11-10

Data generated by models or simulations rather than collected from real people or systems.

Synthetic data is cheap and scalable but cannot add knowledge its generator lacks. See [synthetic vs licensed data](https://aidataforsale.com/learn/synthetic-vs-licensed-training-data).