Is endoflife.date free?

Yes — endoflife.date is a free, community-maintained database of software and OS end-of-life dates, with an open API. eosl.date similarly covers enterprise hardware EOSL dates for free.

What's the difference between an EOL database and an EOL tracker?

A database answers 'when does this product reach end-of-life?' — one product at a time, when you remember to ask. A tracker holds your inventory, ties each of your assets to its date, recomputes statuses continuously, and warns you months before anything expires.

Can I use both together?

Yes, and you should — the databases are ideal for researching dates, and EOL Tracking even auto-fills dates from endoflife.date's API when you add assets. The tracker is what turns those dates into warnings.

Comparison

endoflife.date, eosl.date & friends: brilliant lookups — that's the catch

By Nico De Muynck · Updated July 18, 2026

Full disclosure first

We're fans. endoflife.date is a superb community-maintained database of software and OS lifecycle dates — EOL Tracking literally uses its public API to auto-fill dates when you add assets. eosl.date does a similar free service for enterprise hardware. This page isn't “us good, them bad.” It's about a gap that no lookup site can close by design.

A database answers the wrong question (for operations)

A lookup site answers: “When does FortiOS 7.2 reach end of support?” Perfect when you're researching one product. But the operational question is different: “Across everything we run, what expires next, and will anyone warn us in time to budget for it?” A database can't answer that, because it doesn't know what you own. The gap between those two questions is where every “we didn't see it coming” incident lives — and someone on your team has to bridge it by hand: keep the inventory, re-check the sites, do the date math, remember to act. That someone is a spreadsheet away from all the usual failure modes.

Side by side

	endoflife.date / eosl.date	EOL Tracking
What it knows	Products and their published dates	Your assets, tied to their dates
Warns you ahead of time	No — you must remember to check	Email, Slack, Teams — up to 2 years ahead
Live fleet status	No inventory at all	Good / Warning / Expired per asset, recomputed live
Client & location grouping	—	Built in for MSPs
Reports for audits/QBRs	—	PDF & CSV export
Price	Free	Free ≤5 assets · €20/mo unlimited

The workflow that actually works: use both

Research with the databases; operate with a tracker. In practice: inventory your fleet once (the free template structures it), add assets to EOL Tracking — dates auto-fill from endoflife.date where its catalog matches, and our vendor guides show where to confirm hardware dates for Cisco, Fortinet, Dell and HPE. From then on the checking, recomputing and remembering is automated — the part humans are reliably bad at.

Turn lookups into warnings

Add your assets once — get told months before anything you own reaches its date.

Start free — up to 5 assets

No credit card · auto-fills dates from endoflife.date