UUID generator
Random v4 or time-ordered v7 UUIDs, one or a thousand at a time. Paste any UUID to see what’s inside it.
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Your UUID
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Inspect a UUID
See its version, variant and, for time-based versions, when it was made.
What’s in a UUID
A UUID (also called a GUID) is 128 bits written as 32 hexadecimal digits in five groups: 8-4-4-4-12. The first digit of the third group is the version. Version 4 is random; version 7, standardized in RFC 9562 in 2024, starts with the time in milliseconds so IDs sort in the order they were made.
Questions people ask
Should I use UUID v4 or v7?
Use v7 for database keys: it starts with a timestamp, so new IDs sort after old ones and keep indexes compact. Use v4 when you want no information in the ID at all.
Can two UUIDs ever be the same?
In practice, no. A v4 UUID has 122 random bits. You would need about a billion UUIDs every second for 85 years to reach a 50% chance of one duplicate.