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DeutschZylo alternatives for SaaS license management
Zylo builds a system of record for software spend from finance data and integrations. The alternatives lean in different directions: Torii toward discovery and automation, BetterCloud toward user lifecycle workflows, Vertice toward procurement and negotiation, and LicenseMeter toward a free, read-only look at Microsoft 365 and a handful of other apps.
The SaaS management market moved a lot in 2026: Freshworks agreed to buy Torii, CoreStack announced its acquisition of BetterCloud, and Vertice announced its acquisition of Vendr. Each entry below says where things stood when we checked.
Updated 6 November 2026.
How we picked
- It manages SaaS licenses or spend across vendors, not only one suite.
- It is sold or maintained as of November 2026.
- Its own website, documentation or repository says what it does, and cells link to that source where one applies. Where we found nothing, the table says Not stated.
We make LicenseMeter, so weigh its place on this list accordingly. Every other entry is described from its own website, with the gaps we found in LicenseMeter stated as plainly as theirs.
At a glance
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 | Zylo | Torii | BetterCloud | Vertice | LicenseMeter |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Finding Microsoft 365 waste | |||||
| Flags inactive or disabled licensed users | Yes | Yes | Yes | Partly | Yes |
| Reports unused Microsoft 365 Copilot licenses | Not stated | Yes | Not stated | Not stated | Yes |
| Puts a cost on each finding | Partly | Yes | Not stated | Not stated | Yes |
| Coverage beyond Microsoft 365 | |||||
| Reads license data from non-Microsoft SaaS | Yes | Yes | Yes | Partly | Yes |
| Discovers unsanctioned apps (shadow IT) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
| Tracks OpenAI and Anthropic API spend | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Tracks contracts and renewals | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Acting on findings | |||||
| Removes or reassigns licenses itself | Yes | Yes | Yes | Partly | No |
| Deployment and price | |||||
| Free plan (not just a trial) | No | No | Yes | No | Yes |
| Prices published | No | No | Partly | Yes | Yes |
| EU hosting available | Not stated | Not stated | No | Yes | Yes |
1. Torii
Best for: Shadow IT discovery and automated joiner, mover and leaver workflows.
A hosted SaaS and AI management platform that discovers the SaaS and AI stack, reclaims wasted spend and automates onboarding and offboarding, sold as SaaS management, identity governance and AI management. Freshworks agreed to acquire Torii on 12 October 2026; when we checked, the deal had not closed and Torii said it operates independently until then.
Hundreds of integrations, no-code workflows that reclaim seats, and Copilot reporting per person. Quote-based.
- Hundreds of pre-built integrations, plus an AI builder, API and CSV for the rest.
- No-code workflows that act on findings, including an Unassign Microsoft 365 license action and approvals in Slack.
- Shadow IT discovery from a browser extension, OAuth grants, SSO and finance data.
- Microsoft 365 Copilot reporting with prompts and active days per person and dormant-seat detection.
Pricing: Quote-based, with no public price list and no free plan.
2. BetterCloud
Best for: Automating onboarding and offboarding across Google Workspace and Microsoft 365.
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.
Deep workflow automation and AI governance, with a free Spend Optimization Basic tier. Data is stored in the United States.
- 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.
Pricing: Spend Optimization Basic is free ($0 per month). Paid modules are quoted by license count, connected apps, modules and add-ons.
3. Vertice
Best for: Finance and procurement teams that want negotiation done for them.
A platform for finance and procurement teams: intake-to-procure workflows, vendor, risk and contract management, SaaS usage analytics, a software pricing dataset and negotiation with guaranteed savings, plus cloud and AI cost optimization. Vertice announced its acquisition of Vendr on 1 June 2026.
Procurement workflows, a large pricing dataset and guaranteed negotiated savings, with EU-primary data storage. Usage comes from SSO data rather than per-app license connectors.
- Negotiation as a service, with savings contractually guaranteed on the SaaS Purchasing plan.
- Pricing intelligence on 32,000+ vendors, enlarged by the Vendr acquisition.
- Procurement workflows LicenseMeter does not attempt: intake, approvals, vendor risk and contract management.
Pricing: Published starting prices: Intake-to-Procure from $30,000, SaaS Purchasing from $40,000, Cloud Cost Optimization from $20,000. The page does not say per what period.
4. LicenseMeter
Best for: Microsoft 365-heavy organizations that want waste priced for free before buying a platform.
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.
Free, open source and EU-hosted, with deep Microsoft 365 and Copilot findings. No shadow IT discovery. Its gaps: it never removes a license itself (it generates a script your admin runs), it does not suggest downgrades or bundles, and it reads 8 other SaaS tools rather than hundreds.
Pricing: 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.
License: MIT
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