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DeutschLicenseMeter vs AvePoint Elements
A multi-tenant SaaS platform for MSPs that run Microsoft 365 and Azure services for their clients. License Optimization is one of its modules: it finds unused, oversized and unassigned licenses across client tenants and supports cleanup and reallocation. It comes at no extra cost with the Baseline, Workspace or User and Device Management modules.
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 AvePoint Elements if
- You are an MSP standardizing service delivery across many client tenants and want license optimization as one billable service inside that platform.
- You already buy other Elements modules, so License Optimization costs nothing extra.
Pick LicenseMeter if
- You manage your own tenant rather than a client portfolio, or want to start without a partner contract.
- You want unused Copilot seats priced in the same report.
- You also need Adobe, Zoom, Atlassian, Salesforce, OpenAI, Anthropic, ChatGPT and Claude checked against Entra ID.
Where AvePoint Elements is stronger
- Built for MSPs: dashboards across every client tenant, partner and reseller management, and distributor marketplace integration for purchasing and billing.
- Acts on findings: unassigns and downgrades licenses, with automated cleanup and reallocation.
- Sits inside a wider managed-service platform for security baselines, devices and workspace governance.
- A wide choice of EU data centers, including Germany West Central.
Feature by feature
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| Feature | AvePoint Elements | LicenseMeter |
|---|---|---|
| Finding Microsoft 365 waste | ||
| Flags inactive or disabled licensed users | Yes Detects inactive or blocked users across client tenants. 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 Identifies unused, oversized or unassigned licenses. Source | Yes Paid seats bought but assigned to nobody become priced shelfware findings. Source |
| Reports unused Microsoft 365 Copilot licenses | Not stated The Elements license pages do not mention Copilot. Source | Yes Copilot seats with no Copilot activity in the threshold window are their own finding. Source |
| Puts a cost on each finding | Not stated Public pages describe recovering wasted license cost but do not show a figure per finding. Source | Yes Every finding carries a monthly cost in the workspace currency. Source |
| Uses your own contract prices | Not stated The guide lists a License Unit Cost Profile page whose content needs a partner login. 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 Modules cover Microsoft 365 and Azure. 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 An app management module is listed as a preview without detail. 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 Device management covers lifecycle and security; 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 Renewal recommendations and expired-subscription notices for Microsoft licenses; no general contract tracking. 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 Unassigns and downgrades licenses, which needs write access to client tenants. 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; partners are placed in a data center by region. 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 Free only as part of other Elements purchases. Source | Yes Free with no time limit, including monitoring and exports. Source |
| Prices published | No Request Pricing only. Source | Yes Pro EUR 99 per month, MSP EUR 299 per month. Source |
| Multi-tenant for MSPs | Yes Built for MSPs across all client tenants. 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 France Central, Germany West Central, North Europe and West Europe. Source | Yes Hosted data lives in Frankfurt (AWS eu-central-1). Source |
Pricing
AvePoint Elements
Quote-based for partners (Request Pricing). License Optimization is included at no extra cost with Baseline, Workspace or User and Device Management.
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 AvePoint Elements's own website and documentation on 6 November 2026.
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