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StackDrift vs endoflife.ai
endoflife.ai publishes end of life dates with CVE context and a risk score, free and with no signup. Both of these answer the same problem, which is software on your machines going out of support. The difference worth choosing on is where the list of what you run comes from. endoflife.ai works from a list you enter and keep current by hand. StackDrift has a command line tool that discovers what is actually installed on the machine.
What endoflife.ai does well
- Free, and there is nothing to sign up for.
- End of life dates, CVE context and a 0 to 100 risk score across 500 or more products and 8,000 or more versions.
- Reminder alerts at 90, 30 and 7 days.
Where StackDrift differs
- endoflife.ai covers more products and more versions than StackDrift does, and gives its CVE context and its risk score away free. We do not claim a wider catalogue, better dates, or CVE data you cannot already get there.
- Its reminders cover the stack you tell it you run. StackDrift has a command line tool that discovers what is actually installed on the machine, which is the part it never asks you to keep current yourself.
What each one costs
- endoflife.ai
- Free, with no signup.
- StackDrift
- No free tier. A 14 day trial, and it takes a card.
Worth being straight about that trade, because it is the first thing anyone checks. Several of the products these pages compare us with are free or have a free tier, and StackDrift has neither. If a date and a reminder is all you need, you can have both for nothing, and this page is not going to pretend otherwise.
Which one you want
If you are content to maintain the list of what you run, endoflife.ai answers more of this for nothing than anything else on this page. StackDrift is worth paying for only because of the machines that would never have made it onto that list.
The other comparisons
Every claim about endoflife.ai on this page was read off their own site on 21 September 2026. Products change, so check theirs before you decide.
The part a comparison table cannot answer for you
Every product on this page, StackDrift included, is only ever as right as the list of what you run. StackDrift scans your machines and works that list out for you, across every runtime, operating system and kernel underneath your code, then mails you before the next support window closes or a CVE lands on a build you have deployed.
A card is needed to open the trial and nothing is charged until it ends.