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DeutschLicenseMeter vs BetterCloud
A hosted SaaS management and AI governance platform focused on automating user lifecycle work across Google Workspace, Microsoft 365 and 100+ other apps, sold as modules on a no-code workflow platform. CoreStack announced its acquisition of BetterCloud on 31 March 2026.
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 BetterCloud if
- Your main job is automating onboarding and offboarding across Google Workspace, Microsoft 365 and other apps.
- You want the tool to reclaim licenses itself.
Pick LicenseMeter if
- You want unassigned seats and unused Microsoft 365 Copilot licenses reported and priced with your own contract prices.
- You need EU hosting or a self-hosted install; BetterCloud stores customer data in US data centers on Google Cloud.
Where BetterCloud is stronger
- Deep workflow automation: unlimited actions in a no-code builder across 100+ native integrations, for onboarding, offboarding and license reclamation.
- Acts on Microsoft 365 directly: offboarding, license assignment and reclamation, and OneDrive and SharePoint sharing fixes.
- AI governance: an inventory of AI keys, agents and models across OpenAI, Anthropic, Cursor and GitHub Copilot, with spend per provider.
- A free entry tier (Spend Optimization Basic) and a renewal service.
Feature by feature
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| Feature | BetterCloud | LicenseMeter |
|---|---|---|
| Finding Microsoft 365 waste | ||
| Flags inactive or disabled licensed users | Yes Identifies users with inactive or low use of specific apps and reclaims their licenses. 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 | Not stated No page found that flags purchased but unassigned Microsoft 365 seats. Source | Yes Paid seats bought but assigned to nobody become priced shelfware findings. Source |
| Reports unused Microsoft 365 Copilot licenses | Not stated AI governance covers GitHub Copilot; Microsoft 365 Copilot is not mentioned. 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 Claims to surface every unused license; whether each carries a cost is not shown. Source | Yes Every finding carries a monthly cost in the workspace currency. Source |
| Uses your own contract prices | Partly Contract management and benchmarking; entering per-license prices is not documented. 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 | Yes 100+ native integrations plus an open API. 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) | Yes A Chrome extension, SSO and integrations; AI governance finds unsanctioned AI keys and agents. Source | No Only the apps you connect are read. There is no discovery of unknown apps. Source |
| Tracks OpenAI and Anthropic API spend | Yes Inventories OpenAI and Anthropic keys and shows AI spend per provider. Source | Yes Daily OpenAI and Anthropic API spend, kept separate from per-seat costs. Source |
| Measures desktop software usage | Not stated No desktop or endpoint agent 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 | Yes Automatic renewal reminders, contract benchmarking and a renewal service. 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 remove or reassign licenses after a configurable inactivity period. 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 Built and hosted exclusively on Google Cloud. 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 Spend Optimization Basic at $0 per month, with a view of license utilization. Source | Yes Free with no time limit, including monitoring and exports. Source |
| Prices published | Partly Only the free tier has a price on the page. Source | Yes Pro EUR 99 per month, MSP EUR 299 per month. Source |
| Multi-tenant for MSPs | Partly A partner program and multiple Microsoft 365 tenants (pitched for M&A); no MSP console documented. 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 | No Customer personal data is stored in US data centers; EU transfers rely on Standard Contractual Clauses. Source | Yes Hosted data lives in Frankfurt (AWS eu-central-1). Source |
Pricing
BetterCloud
Spend Optimization Basic is free ($0 per month). Paid modules are quoted by license count, connected apps, modules and add-ons.
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 BetterCloud's own website and documentation on 6 November 2026.
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