Microsoft 365 Lighthouse, CoreView, and Accred Manage compared
As of November 2026, Microsoft 365 Lighthouse is Microsoft’s free multi-tenant portal for Cloud Solution Provider partners with eligible customers. CoreView is a commercial Microsoft 365 management platform with multi-tenant management, scoped admin roles, and configuration backup, priced by licensed identities on request. Accred Manage is free and works in one client tenant at a time, switched with the client picker, with baseline drift scans, Detect alerts, access reviews that need a second approver, and a verified result for every supported change.
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. Manage has no single combined view across tenants. If you need one Microsoft-native or delegated console across tenants, Lighthouse or CoreView is the better fit. Competitor facts are as of November 2026, from each vendor’s own pages or Microsoft Learn, linked under Sources. Prices change, so confirm them with the vendor. Where another tool is the better fit, we say so.
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 |
| Price | No additional cost | Not published; priced by licensed identities | Free for every role except Viewer |
| Requirements | CSP enrollment, GDAP or DAP, and customer tenants that meet Microsoft’s requirements | Contact the vendor | Hub organization and tenant administrator consent; some changes need a personal Manage Plus connection |
| Baselines and drift | SMB security baseline with variance detection | Baseline deployment and drift detection | Drift scans against the Accred standards library (29 controls in 9 areas), with accepted deviations that expire |
| Access governance | Risky user, MFA, and password reset views | Scoped operator roles | Access reviews; removals need a second Owner or Admin to approve |
| Threat alerts | Default alert rules across customers | Not compared here | Detect: risky inbox rules, mailbox forwarding, and likely account compromise; response through an approved playbook |
| 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 |
Microsoft 365 Lighthouse
Lighthouse gives managed service providers multi-tenant views and a default security baseline for small and mid-size customers, with no additional cost. It is available to Cloud Solution Provider direct-bill partners and indirect resellers, who need a GDAP or DAP relationship with each customer. Customer tenants must meet Microsoft’s subscription, size, and region requirements; tenants that do not qualify get a limited set of features. Lighthouse applies 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. Tenant Resilience covers hardening, drift detection, and configuration backup and restore. Its modules include baseline deployment and scoped access control.
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 a second Owner or Admin approves them; no one approves their own.
Manage’s Security area has three parts. Posture shows 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; most fixes open the Microsoft admin center that owns them, and missing baseline Conditional Access policies can be created in report-only, never turned on for you. Detect raises findings for risky inbox rules, mailbox forwarding, and likely account compromise; it changes nothing in Microsoft 365 itself, and a response runs through the approved compromised-identity playbook. Baselines and drift scans the tenant against the Accred standards library, 29 controls in 9 areas aligned with CIS, and lets you accept a deviation with a reason and an end date.
Where Accred is stronger
- Free, with no CSP enrollment required.
- Every supported change ends in a verified, pending, partial, failed, or manual result.
- Removals in an access review need a second Owner or Admin, so no one approves their own.
- Baseline Conditional Access policies can be created in report-only, never turned on for you.
- Drift scans against 29 controls in 9 areas, aligned with CIS, with accepted deviations that expire.
Which to choose
- Choose Lighthouse if you are a CSP partner with eligible small and mid-size customers and want a free, Microsoft-native console across them.
- Choose CoreView for delegated administration across large or many tenants, with configuration backup and restore.
- 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 must meet Microsoft’s subscription, size, and region requirements, and the partner needs a GDAP or DAP relationship with each. Tenants that do not qualify get a limited feature set. Microsoft Learn lists the current requirements.
How is CoreView priced?
As of November 2026, 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.
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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