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DeutschLicenseMeter vs CoreView
A hosted platform for administering, securing and governing Microsoft 365 at scale: configuration backup and drift detection, delegated administration, workflows and bulk actions, and license optimization with chargeback. Built for enterprise and public-sector IT teams and sold through MSP and reseller partners.
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 CoreView if
- You run Microsoft 365 at enterprise scale and want administration, automation and configuration resilience in one platform, with licensing as one part of it.
- You need license administration delegated to business units and costs charged back by department.
Pick LicenseMeter if
- You want the license waste number for free, without a sales process, and nothing else from the platform.
- You also need Adobe, Zoom, Atlassian, Salesforce, OpenAI, Anthropic, ChatGPT and Claude checked against Entra ID.
- You prefer a tool that can only read, or one you can self-host.
Where CoreView is stronger
- Acts on the tenant: onboarding and offboarding workflows assign and remove licenses, and bulk actions fix what the reports find.
- License pools and virtual tenants delegate license administration to regions or business units, with cost reporting per department for chargeback.
- Copilot policies for licensed users without Copilot activity or with low use over 30, 60 or 90 days.
- Covers far more than licensing: backup and restore of thousands of tenant settings, CIS and Essential 8 baselines, access reviews and SIEM export.
Feature by feature
Not stated means we could not find it on the vendor's own pages, not that it is missing. Not checked means we did not look into it for that product. Values link to where the claim comes from.
| Feature | CoreView | LicenseMeter |
|---|---|---|
| Finding Microsoft 365 waste | ||
| Flags inactive or disabled licensed users | Yes The Optimization Center flags disabled licensed users and users whose primary licenses were inactive for at least 90 days. 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 Reports on unused, unassigned and over-assigned licenses; the License Pools Center shows available licenses per pool. Source | Yes Paid seats bought but assigned to nobody become priced shelfware findings. Source |
| Reports unused Microsoft 365 Copilot licenses | Yes Copilot usage report and policies for users without or with low Copilot activity over 30, 60 or 90 days. Source | Yes Copilot seats with no Copilot activity in the threshold window are their own finding. Source |
| Puts a cost on each finding | Partly Shows licenses with their cost and splits costs by department; the docs do not show a figure on each individual finding. Source | Yes Every finding carries a monthly cost in the workspace currency. Source |
| Uses your own contract prices | Yes Manage Price per Unit sets your own price per SKU. 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 Microsoft 365 and on-premises Active Directory and Exchange; no other SaaS license sources are listed. 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) | Partly Reports on apps registered in Entra ID and app consent; nothing outside Entra is described. Source | No Only the apps you connect are read. There is no discovery of unknown apps. Source |
| Tracks OpenAI and Anthropic API spend | Not stated Not described on its pages. Source | Yes Daily OpenAI and Anthropic API spend, kept separate from per-seat costs. Source |
| Measures desktop software usage | Not stated Intune reporting and management; software usage metering is not described. 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 Flags licenses in the grace period after a subscription expires; no general contract tracking described. 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 Workflows, bulk actions and lifecycle templates assign or remove licenses. Reporting is read-only; management actions need an extra Graph consent. 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 | No Hosted service; you pick a CoreView data center at registration. Source | Yes Docker Compose, with every feature included. Source |
| Open source | No Proprietary. Source | Yes MIT license. Source |
| Free plan (not just a trial) | No No free plan for the platform; there are separate free tools and a trial. Source | Yes Free with no time limit, including monitoring and exports. Source |
| Prices published | No Every plan shows Request pricing. Source | Yes Pro EUR 99 per month, MSP EUR 299 per month. Source |
| Multi-tenant for MSPs | Yes Multi-tenant dashboard and a partner app for MSPs and distributors. 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 | Yes A Europe data center (North Europe, Ireland) can be chosen at registration and not changed later. Source | Yes Hosted data lives in Frankfurt (AWS eu-central-1). Source |
Pricing
CoreView
Quote-based, by number of Microsoft 365 licensed identities. Every plan says Request pricing; there is no free plan.
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 CoreView's own website and documentation on 6 November 2026.
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