Microsoft 365 Lighthouse, CoreView, and Accred Manage compared
Microsoft 365 Lighthouse is Microsoft’s free multi-tenant portal for Cloud Solution Provider partners managing small and mid-size customer tenants. CoreView is a commercial Microsoft 365 management platform with multi-tenant management, scoped admin roles, license optimization, and configuration backup, priced on request. Accred Manage is free and covers many client tenants, one client at a time, switched with the client picker; it has no single combined view across tenants.
How to read this comparison
Accred Manage covers many client tenants: add a client in Hub for each tenant and work in one client at a time, switched with the client picker. Lighthouse and CoreView still give one combined view across tenants; if you need that today, they are the better fit. Accred Fleet, the cross-client view included in Hub, lists your clients but does not show their health, GDAP status, or drift yet. Competitor facts come from each vendor’s public pages and Microsoft Learn, checked on October 27, 2026; prices change, so confirm them with the vendor.
At a glance
| Microsoft 365 Lighthouse | CoreView | Accred Manage | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Built for | CSP partners managing customer tenants | Organizations and providers managing Microsoft 365 at scale | Administrators and MSPs, one client tenant at a time |
| Multi-tenant | Yes | Yes | Many client tenants, one at a time with the client picker; no combined view yet |
| Price | No additional cost | Not published; priced by licensed identities | Free for every role except Viewer |
| Requirements | CSP enrollment, GDAP or DAP, customer tenants up to 2,500 licensed users | Contact the vendor | Hub organization and tenant administrator consent |
| Baselines and drift | Baselines with variance detection | Baseline deployment and drift detection | Before-and-after snapshots of changes |
| Access governance | Risky users, MFA, and password reset views | Scoped operator roles | Access-review workflow; removals need a second owner or administrator to approve |
| Security posture | Security baselines and risky-user views | Not compared here | Conditional Access baseline, Secure Score trend, MFA methods, privileged roles, risky and legacy sign-ins, and Defender alerts; compromise alerts rolling out |
Microsoft 365 Lighthouse
Lighthouse gives managed service providers multi-tenant views and security baselines tailored to small and mid-size customers, with no additional cost. Partners must be enrolled in the Cloud Solution Provider program and need a GDAP or DAP relationship with each customer. A customer tenant needs a qualifying Microsoft 365 subscription, no more than 2,500 licensed users, and the same geographic region as the partner; tenants that do not qualify get a limited set of features. Lighthouse applies eight default alert rules across customers.
CoreView
CoreView sells two plans, Tenant Resilience and Tenant Management, priced by the number of Microsoft 365 licensed identities with no per-admin fees; prices are given on request. Its modules include versioned configuration backup, baseline deployment across tenants, scoped operator roles, and license reports with unused-license detection.
Accred Manage
Manage is free with your Accred organization for every role except Viewer. It keeps persistent findings, inspects before-and-after state, and ends each supported change in a verified, pending, partial, failed, or manual result. Access-review removals, such as taking someone out of a group, run in the live tenant only after an Owner or Admin approves them.
Manage’s Security area is live: a Conditional Access baseline, Secure Score with a 30-day trend, MFA and authentication methods, privileged role holders, risky and legacy sign-ins, and active Microsoft Defender alerts. It is read-only; each fix opens the Microsoft admin center that owns it. Detect, which raises alerts for suspicious inbox rules, external forwarding, and likely account compromise, is rolling out.
Which to choose
- Choose Lighthouse if you are a CSP partner with eligible small and mid-size customers: it is free and Microsoft-native.
- Choose CoreView for large or many tenants that need delegated administration, license chargeback, and configuration backup.
- Choose Accred Manage to administer each client tenant for free with reviewable, verified changes, alongside the other Accred apps.
Questions
Is Microsoft 365 Lighthouse free?
Yes. Microsoft says there are no additional costs for using Lighthouse to manage Microsoft 365 services and connected devices. It is available to partners in the Cloud Solution Provider program.
What are the limits of Microsoft 365 Lighthouse?
Customer tenants need a qualifying subscription, no more than 2,500 licensed users, the same geographic region as the partner, and a GDAP or DAP relationship. Tenants that do not qualify get a limited feature set.
How is CoreView priced?
CoreView prices by the number of Microsoft 365 licensed identities, with no per-admin fees. Prices are not published; the vendor provides them on request.
Can Accred Manage manage multiple tenants?
Yes, one client at a time. Add a client in Hub for each Microsoft 365 tenant, connect it in Manage inside that client, and switch with the client picker. Manage has no single combined view across tenants. Accred Fleet, the cross-client view included in Hub, lists your clients; their health, GDAP status, and drift are not connected yet.
Sources
- Overview of Microsoft 365 Lighthouse · Microsoft Learn
- Requirements for Microsoft 365 Lighthouse · Microsoft Learn
- Overview of alerts in Microsoft 365 Lighthouse · Microsoft Learn
- CoreView pricing · CoreView
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