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The CyberDrain Improved Partner Portal: a free, AGPL-licensed, multi-tenant Microsoft 365 management portal built for MSPs and Microsoft partners, with a single-tenant mode. Next to user, mailbox, device, standards and security administration, it has a license report, an inactive users report, Copilot usage reports and a License Optimization tab that suggests removals, downgrades, bundles and term changes with estimated monthly savings from an editable price list.
LicenseMeter: A free, MIT-licensed tool that connects read-only to Microsoft 365, finds disabled, inactive and unassigned paid seats and unused Copilot licenses, prices each finding, and cross-checks a handful of other SaaS tools against Entra ID. Built for Microsoft 365 admins and MSPs who want the waste number without buying a platform.
The short answer
Pick CIPP if
- You are an MSP already running CIPP for tenant administration: its optimization tab covers most Microsoft 365 license waste in a tool you use anyway.
- You want downgrade and term-change suggestions, or want to remove licenses from the same screen.
Pick LicenseMeter if
- You also need Adobe, Zoom, Atlassian, Salesforce, OpenAI, Anthropic, ChatGPT and Claude checked against Entra ID, or OpenAI and Anthropic API spend tracked.
- You want a tool whose core connector only reads your tenant and that never changes licenses itself.
- You do not want to run an Azure subscription to self-host: LicenseMeter runs with Docker Compose anywhere, or free on licensemeter.com.
Where CIPP is stronger
- Deeper Microsoft 365 license analysis: downgrade, bundle and monthly-to-yearly term suggestions based on what each person actually used, not only idle seats.
- Removes licenses from the same screen, in bulk, while LicenseMeter only generates a script for your admin to run.
- Multi-tenant by design through GDAP, with broad Microsoft 365 administration (standards and drift, security, Intune, Exchange) in the same tool.
- An active project with frequent releases and an established MSP community.
Feature by feature
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| Feature | CIPP | LicenseMeter |
|---|---|---|
| Finding Microsoft 365 waste | ||
| Flags inactive or disabled licensed users | Yes Inactive Users report, and optimization flags disabled and inactive users over a 30 to 180 day window. Source | Yes Disabled accounts that keep licenses, licensed accounts that were never active, and seats idle past your threshold, from sign-in activity and per-workload usage. Source |
| Flags purchased but unassigned seats | Yes License report shows owned, used and available seats; optimization suggests reducing unassigned ones. Source | Yes Paid seats bought but assigned to nobody become priced shelfware findings. Source |
| Reports unused Microsoft 365 Copilot licenses | Yes Copilot activity and adoption reports; optimization suggests removing never-used Copilot. Source | Yes Copilot seats with no Copilot activity in the threshold window are their own finding. Source |
| Puts a cost on each finding | Yes Each suggestion carries an estimated monthly saving. Source | Yes Every finding carries a monthly cost in the workspace currency. Source |
| Uses your own contract prices | Yes Editable monthly per-seat prices per currency, with CSV import and export. Source | Yes An editable price book per workspace, prefilled with list-price estimates. Source |
| Coverage beyond Microsoft 365 | ||
| Reads license data from non-Microsoft SaaS | No License data comes from Microsoft 365; its integrations are PSA, documentation and RMM tools. Source | Yes 8 connectors: Adobe, Zoom, Atlassian, Salesforce, OpenAI, Anthropic, ChatGPT and Claude. Far fewer than a SaaS management platform. Source |
| Discovers unsanctioned apps (shadow IT) | Not checked Not part of our review of this product. | No Only the apps you connect are read. There is no discovery of unknown apps. Source |
| Tracks OpenAI and Anthropic API spend | Not checked Not part of our review of this product. | Yes Daily OpenAI and Anthropic API spend, kept separate from per-seat costs. Source |
| Measures desktop software usage | Not stated Shows apps Intune detected on devices, not whether they are used. Source | Partly Windows apps deployed through Intune only, read from an Intune Remediation. Hosted Pro and MSP plans, or self-hosted. Source |
| Tracks contracts and renewals | Partly Days until renewal per Microsoft subscription, marked as an estimate; no other vendors. Source | Yes Contract dates and notice deadlines per vendor, shown next to the open findings they affect. Source |
| Acting on findings | ||
| Removes or reassigns licenses itself | Yes Remove license from user, in bulk, straight from the optimization view. Source | No By design: LicenseMeter never changes licenses itself. It generates a PowerShell script for the seats you pick, and your IT reviews and runs it. Source |
| Deployment and price | ||
| Can be self-hosted | Yes Deploys to your own Azure subscription (Web App, Storage, Key Vault). Source | Yes Docker Compose, with every feature included. Source |
| Open source | Yes AGPL-3.0. Source | Yes MIT license. Source |
| Free plan (not just a trial) | Yes Self-hosting is free. Source | Yes Free with no time limit, including monitoring and exports. Source |
| Prices published | Yes Hosted CIPP at EUR 99 per month. Source | Yes Pro EUR 99 per month, MSP EUR 299 per month. Source |
| Multi-tenant for MSPs | Yes Built for MSPs managing many client tenants through GDAP. Source | Yes Multiple workspaces on every plan; the MSP plan adds portfolio alerts, one team across clients and white-label reports. Source |
| EU hosting available | Not checked Not part of our review of this product. | Yes Hosted data lives in Frankfurt (AWS eu-central-1). Source |
Pricing
CIPP
Free to self-host in your own Azure subscription. Hosted CIPP from CyberDrain costs EUR 99 per month.
LicenseMeter
Free, including continuous monitoring, with no time limit. Optional hosted plans: Pro at EUR 99 per month and MSP at EUR 299 per month for 10 client tenants. Self-hosted installs include every feature.
We last checked CIPP's own website and documentation on 6 November 2026.
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