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DeutschLicenseMeter vs Zylo
A hosted SaaS and AI spend management platform for enterprises. It builds a system of record for software spend, usage, AI consumption and contracts, mainly from finance data and direct integrations, with license reclamation, renewal management and optional managed services for operations and negotiation.
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 Zylo if
- You manage a large software portfolio across many vendors and need spend, contracts and renewals in one system of record.
- You want help negotiating renewals, not only the data for them.
Pick LicenseMeter if
- Most of your waste is in Microsoft 365 and Copilot, and you want it found and priced today, for free.
- You want a read-only tool you can self-host, or run free on EU-hosted licensemeter.com.
Where Zylo is stronger
- Sees paid apps across the whole portfolio: discovery from finance data, 61 direct integrations and a no-code connector for the rest.
- Pricing benchmarks and a managed negotiation service for renewals.
- Starts from actual payments rather than sign-in logs and ranks every upcoming renewal by savings potential, with a renewal calendar.
- Acts on findings: removes or downgrades Office 365 licenses inside Zylo and runs reclamation workflows that survey users first.
Feature by feature
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| Feature | Zylo | LicenseMeter |
|---|---|---|
| Finding Microsoft 365 waste | ||
| Flags inactive or disabled licensed users | Yes Pinpoints inactive or low-use Microsoft 365 licenses and alerts when former employees keep access. 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 Shows whether licenses are used, underused or unassigned, described for licenses in general. Source | Yes Paid seats bought but assigned to nobody become priced shelfware findings. Source |
| Reports unused Microsoft 365 Copilot licenses | Not stated No page found on Microsoft 365 Copilot seat usage. Source | Yes Copilot seats with no Copilot activity in the threshold window are their own finding. Source |
| Puts a cost on each finding | Partly Ranks renewals by savings potential and totals identified savings; a figure on each unused license is not shown. Source | Yes Every finding carries a monthly cost in the workspace currency. Source |
| Uses your own contract prices | Yes Starts from your actual payments rather than list prices, and shows cost per user. 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 61 direct integrations plus a no-code Usage Connect option. 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 App discovery, mainly from financial data, so free apps usually do not appear. Source | No Only the apps you connect are read. There is no discovery of unknown apps. Source |
| Tracks OpenAI and Anthropic API spend | Yes OpenAI and Anthropic cost integrations, by SKU, project or account. 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 mentioned. 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 Renewal calendar from contract, spend and app data, with renewal support. 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 Removes or downgrades Office 365 licenses inside Zylo; Premium adds Okta and Entra actions. 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 | Not stated Sold as hosted SaaS; a self-hosted edition is not documented. 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 All three plans are quote-based. Source | Yes Free with no time limit, including monitoring and exports. Source |
| Prices published | No Plan features are published, prices are not. Source | Yes Pro EUR 99 per month, MSP EUR 299 per month. Source |
| Multi-tenant for MSPs | Not stated No MSP program found; Enterprise supports multiple business units. 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 stated Its privacy policy describes US processing of personal data Zylo collects; where customer data is hosted is not stated. Source | Yes Hosted data lives in Frankfurt (AWS eu-central-1). Source |
Pricing
Zylo
Quote-based. Three plans (Core, Premium, Enterprise) with no published prices and 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 Zylo's own website and documentation on 6 November 2026.
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