BOM Sentry Free lifecycle check

Is anything on your board already dead?

Paste your bill of materials. We check every part against current distributor lifecycle data and show you what is obsolete, end-of-life, or no longer recommended for new designs — before your contract manufacturer tells you they cannot source it.

One per line, or paste a BOM column straight out of Altium, KiCad or Excel — we find the part number. Up to 40 parts at a time.

No account, no card, no email address. Your list is not stored — it exists only for as long as the page takes to load.

01 — Why this exists

A part on your board goes end-of-life and nobody tells you, because the notice goes to whoever bought the reel, not to whoever designed the board. You find out months later, when your CM cannot source it and the fix is a respin.

The tools built for this — SiliconExpert, Accuris, Z2Data — are enterprise supply-chain platforms priced for companies with a procurement department. The one self-serve competitor we found starts at $149 a month. If you are a five-person hardware team, nobody is selling to you.

So this is free. It is a lookup, not a service, and it costs almost nothing to run — there is no subscription to sell you and no upsell coming.

02 — What it does

Reads your part list

Paste a column from any BOM export. Designators, quantities and footprints are ignored — we key on the manufacturer part number.

Checks each part's status

Live lookup against DigiKey's catalogue. Nothing is cached, so what you see is what they list right now.

Flags what matters

Obsolete End of life Not for new designs Active

Shows the last-time-buy

Where the manufacturer has stated one, with a link to the product page so you can buy or find an alternate.

03 — What it is not

Read this before you rely on it. We would rather be useful once than trusted wrongly.

Not monitoring

This is a snapshot. We do not watch your BOM over time, and we will never email you — there is no list to join and no alert to miss.

Not stored

No account, no database, no log of your parts. We are not permitted to build one from this data, and we have not.

Not exhaustive

Of 621,909 parts that went end-of-life in 2025, 52% carried no manufacturer change notice at all — Z2Data, March 2026. A clean result here is not a promise.

Not advice

We report what a distributor lists and link it. Confirm against the manufacturer's own notice before committing to a last-time-buy or a redesign.

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Lifecycle and availability data supplied by DigiKey. BOM Sentry is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by DigiKey or any manufacturer named on this site; all trademarks belong to their respective owners. Information is provided as-is and without warranty — always confirm against the manufacturer's original notice and your authorised distributor before making a purchasing or design decision.