License waste · Cost
You're paying for licenses nobody uses.
Disabled users still holding E5 seats. Accounts that never signed in. Premium SKUs doing E3 work. Tenant Hawk finds every wasted license in your tenant and prices the recovery in real dollars - usually more than the platform costs.
Read-only scan · dollar impact on every finding · results in minutes
Where M365 spend leaks
Offboarding leftovers
The account gets disabled, the license stays assigned. Multiply by every departure since your last audit - this is almost always the biggest bucket.
Oversized SKUs
E5 seats assigned for a feature nobody turned on. Usage says E3 (or F3); the invoice says E5. The delta is pure waste, every month.
Overlapping plans
Standalone add-ons that duplicate what a bundle already includes - two line items paying for one service.
Estimate your recoverable spend first
Plug your seat counts into the free calculator for a back-of-napkin number - then run a scan to see the real one.
Open the license savings calculatorFrequently asked questions
How does Tenant Hawk find wasted licenses?
A read-only scan cross-references license assignments with account status and activity: disabled accounts still holding paid seats, users who never signed in, premium SKUs assigned where a cheaper plan covers actual usage, and overlapping plans that double-pay for the same service. Every finding carries a monthly dollar figure.
Does it use my real license prices?
Yes. You can enter your contracted per-SKU rates and every savings figure is computed against what you actually pay - not list price. Without overrides, standard list pricing is used.
How is this different from the M365 admin center license report?
The admin center shows counts - how many seats you own and how many are assigned. It doesn't tell you that 12 of those assigned seats belong to disabled users, or that 8 E5s show no premium-feature usage. Tenant Hawk does the cross-referencing and ranks the result in dollars.
What does it typically find?
The most common pattern is offboarding leftovers: employees leave, their account is disabled, and the license stays assigned - billing every month. Oversized SKUs are the second biggest bucket. A single reclaimed E5 is roughly $57/month at list; Pro is $49/month per tenant.
Can I export the report for finance or a client?
Pro includes shareable executive report links plus CSV, XLSX, and PDF exports - with the reclaimable-spend summary front and center. MSPs use the per-client scorecards for the same story across a portfolio.
One reclaimed E5 pays for the platform.
An unused E5 is about $57/month at list. Pro is $49/month per tenant. Most first scans surface far more than one seat.
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