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Basecut

CLI tool for dev teams to extract FK-aware subsets of PostgreSQL, auto-anonymize PII, and restore production-like data locally. Data never leaves your network.

Snapshots created by the team can be shared and restored.

Cost / License

  • Freemium (Subscription)
  • Proprietary

Platforms

  • Mac
  • Linux
Your team can define organization-wide snapshot anonymization rules.
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  • Licensing

    Proprietary and Freemium product.

  • Pricing

    Subscription ranging between $79 and $99 per month + free version with limited functionality.

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  • Supported Languages

    • English

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What is Basecut?

Basecut is a CLI-first tool that gives every developer on your team production-like data without compliance risk.

Your production database has the data your team needs to build and debug — but it's full of PII, it's too large to copy whole, and handing it to developers is a compliance incident waiting to happen. So teams compromise: a shared staging database everyone steps on, a months-old dump in S3 nobody trusts, or seed scripts that broke two migrations ago.

With Basecut, one command extracts a referentially valid subset of your PostgreSQL database by following foreign key relationships. It auto-detects and deterministically anonymizes PII using 30+ strategies — emails, names, phone numbers, SSNs, credit cards, IBANs — and replaces them with realistic fakes. The result is a versioned snapshot any teammate can restore locally in seconds.

Key capabilities:

  • FK-aware extraction with zero broken references
  • 30+ auto-detection anonymization strategies
  • Deterministic masking that preserves cross-table relationships
  • Org-wide snapshot policies (Team plan)
  • Data stays in your infrastructure — CLI runs locally, agent runs in your VPC
  • YAML-based configuration generated from your schema
  • PostgreSQL 12–17 support

Free for up to 3 developers with 20 snapshots/month. Team plan at $99/month adds unlimited snapshots, VPC agent execution, and policy enforcement.