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DeutschLicenseMeter vs AdminDroid
A Microsoft 365 and Active Directory reporting, auditing and management application that you install on your own Windows server. It has a free edition and paid editions with 1,500+ reports, alerts, delegation and automation, including license and subscription reports.
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 AdminDroid if
- You want broad Microsoft 365 and Active Directory reporting and auditing, with license reports as one part of it.
- You need everything to run on a Windows server you control.
Pick LicenseMeter if
- You want each waste finding priced in the product, including unused Copilot seats, without running a separate script.
- You want read-only access: AdminDroid's data collection already asks for Directory.ReadWrite.All.
- You also need Adobe, Zoom, Atlassian, Salesforce, OpenAI, Anthropic, ChatGPT and Claude checked against Entra ID.
Where AdminDroid is stronger
- A free edition with no expiry and no tenant size limit, including 140+ Entra ID reports on users, licenses and groups.
- Reporting and auditing far beyond licensing: 1,500+ reports across the major Microsoft 365 workloads, compliance packages and alerting.
- Can make changes from the same portal, with automation templates and approval workflows in paid editions.
- Runs entirely in your environment; collected data stays on the machine it is installed on.
Feature by feature
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| Feature | AdminDroid | LicenseMeter |
|---|---|---|
| Finding Microsoft 365 waste | ||
| Flags inactive or disabled licensed users | Yes License reports for users with disabled sign-in, and an inactive users report suite. 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 The Unused Subscriptions report shows purchased units assigned to nobody. Source | Yes Paid seats bought but assigned to nobody become priced shelfware findings. Source |
| Reports unused Microsoft 365 Copilot licenses | Not stated No report of unused Copilot licenses found on its pages. Source | Yes Copilot seats with no Copilot activity in the threshold window are their own finding. Source |
| Puts a cost on each finding | Partly A separate free PowerShell script estimates monthly savings; the main product's reports were not shown with cost figures. Source | Yes Every finding carries a monthly cost in the workspace currency. Source |
| Uses your own contract prices | Partly The free script reads your prices from a CSV file. 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 only. 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 stated Entra application reports exist; discovery of unsanctioned apps is not 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 A workstation add-on audits security events; 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 Reports on expiring Microsoft 365 subscriptions and a renewal reminder in Pro Plus; no contracts for 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 License management, automation templates and approval workflows in paid editions. AdminDroid says it does not write without your approval. 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 On-premises only, on Windows or Windows Server with a bundled PostgreSQL database. Source | Yes Docker Compose, with every feature included. Source |
| Open source | No Proprietary. Source | Yes MIT license. Source |
| Free plan (not just a trial) | Yes Free edition with lifetime access and no tenant size limit. Source | Yes Free with no time limit, including monitoring and exports. Source |
| Prices published | Yes A price calculator on the website. Source | Yes Pro EUR 99 per month, MSP EUR 299 per month. Source |
| Multi-tenant for MSPs | Yes Through the M365 Tenants add-on; Pro Plus adds GDAP and rebranding. 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 Data stays wherever you install it; there is no vendor-hosted version. Source | Yes Hosted data lives in Frankfurt (AWS eu-central-1). Source |
Pricing
AdminDroid
Free edition with no expiry. Paid editions are yearly and priced by licensed users: for 150 users, Standard $198, Pro $298 and Pro Plus $347 per year. Multi-tenant support is an add-on.
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 AdminDroid's own website and documentation on 6 November 2026.
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