The Exit Toolkit: for the moment you actually leave
Every other tool here helps you plan a migration. These four are for the highest-leverage moment in any vendor relationship, the renewal and the exit, where lock-in is actually priced and enforced. Scan a renewal for lock-in clauses, score how ready you are to leave, price the cost of getting your data out, and confirm your data can even leave. Nothing you enter is uploaded.
Why the exit moment is where lock-in lives
Lock-in isn't an abstraction, it's a set of concrete moments where the balance of power tips toward the vendor. The renewal quote arrives with an uncapped uplift and an auto-renewal clause that already fired the notice window. The migration stalls because nobody confirmed the data would come out in a usable format. The cloud exit gets quietly expensive because egress bills scale with everything you ever stored. These tools each target one of those moments so you meet it with a number and a plan instead of a surprise.
They complement the rest of the site rather than repeat it. The Lock-in Index tells you how hard a product is to leave in the abstract; the Switching Cost Calculator models the one-time project cost; the Renewal Planner tests whether the timeline fits. The Exit Toolkit sits at the sharp end: the contract on your desk and the data in the platform.
How the four tools chain
- Exit Readiness Score — start here to find your biggest gaps against a specific vendor's lock-in profile, and get a prioritized plan.
- Data Portability Checker — confirm the single thing that makes an exit possible: that your data can leave, and in what shape.
- Cloud Egress Estimator — if you're leaving a cloud, price the transfer-out tax before it prices you.
- Renewal Redline — when the paperwork lands, scan it for the clauses that would lock you back in, and counter them.
Frequently asked
Is anything I paste or enter uploaded?
No. Every tool in the Exit Toolkit runs entirely in your browser. The Renewal Redline matches your pasted text against a local checklist; the other tools compute from data shipped with the page. Nothing you type is sent to a server, stored, or logged.
Is the Renewal Redline legal advice?
No. It's an educational checklist that flags common contract patterns worth questioning. It doesn't understand your jurisdiction or read the whole agreement. Have material contracts reviewed by qualified counsel before signing.
Where do the numbers and verdicts come from?
The egress estimator uses each cloud's public, cited list pricing. The readiness and portability tools build on the OffVendor Lock-in Index, our original research scoring how hard products are to leave. Every figure is illustrative and editable, not a vendor quote.
Why focus on the renewal and exit moment?
Because that's where lock-in is priced and enforced. A migration plan matters, but the leverage, and the money, is won or lost when the renewal quote lands and when you try to extract your data. These tools target that moment directly.