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Microsoft 365 management · Ranked

CIPP

CIPP (CyberDrain Improved Partner Portal) is an open-source, community-backed web portal for managing multiple Microsoft 365 tenants from one central dashboard · cipp.app ↗

#7Best rank (mid-market)
12/14Models named it
3First choices
8Warnings
November 2026 Edition · all company sizes counted.
Ranked inMicrosoft 365 management #7 mid-market
What AI models recommend

Read the same way at every company size.

The standing depends on who is buying. Every model is asked the same questions for each company size.

Why models recommend it

“Add CIPP if you need more advanced automation and don't mind self-hosting — it's incredibly powerful and completely free”Kimi K2 · Budget-constrained question · first choice
“Top Choice: CIPP (CyberDrain Improved Partner Portal)”MiniMax M2.5 · Budget-constrained question · first choice
“I'd choose CIPP instead only if you're comfortable maintaining it in Azure or already manage multiple tenants.”GPT-6 Luna · Budget-constrained question · alternative
“Highly scripted, automation-centric; often used by MSPs and larger enterprises for regulatory compliance.”GLM 4.7 FlashX · Comparative question · alternative

What gives them pause

“Another tool with a relatively high negative rate (28%) and labeled as a "criticized challenger"”MiniMax M2.5 · Negative question · warning

Also on the shortlist

The products named in the same answers as CIPP, over the 32 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.

What the models named instead of CIPP →

A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.

At a glance

Stated on CIPP's own site, not checked by Gane.

For
Managed Service Providers working with Microsoft 365 and Azure environments
Customers named
Ourson IT, ShowTech Solutions, Premier One, Freeze IT, Dynamic Quest
Visit cipp.app ↗

How this is measured

Fourteen AI models from 12 labs are asked the same buying questions six ways, for three company sizes. Standings refresh every edition.

Gane sells AI visibility software. No company can pay to change a result.

Read the method →

Sources returned with these answers

The sites and pages the answers that named CIPP came back with. A fact about retrieval, not a cause of the answer.

Fourteen of the fourteen models returned a source list in this edition: five return the pages they cited and nine the search results they consulted. These counts come from 32 of the 32 answers that named CIPP and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

microsoft.com21
g2.com19
admindroid.com18
learn.microsoft.com15
syncrosecure.com14
guideflow.com12
coreview.com11
gane.ai/indexpublisher (Gane)11
expertinsights.com9
docs.cipp.appIts own site6

119 of the 136 domain citations in answers naming CIPP came from a third party's page. Eleven were to the publisher's own pages (the Gane Index), which the models cite like any other source; they are not counted as a third party.

Pages cited

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

By model

How each model answered on CIPP across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.
ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionWarningLabels
Claude Haiku 4.500000
GPT-5.4 mini00000
Gemini 3.5 Flash01001
Perplexity Sonar01001
Grok 4.2000000
Mistral Small01001
DeepSeek V4 Flash02103
Llama 4 Maverick01001
Qwen 3.7 Flash00000
Kimi K211002
GLM 4.7 FlashX02002
MiniMax M2.510012
GPT-6 Luna02002
Muse Glimmer 30B00000

What it publishes

Addresses on cipp.app
473
subdomains included
Content
72
counted in the table below
Documentation
391
Product · Integration
0 · 0
KindPagesLast 90 days2025-11 to 2026-10LatestCategories named
Report or ebook37372026-09-24MFA
Template or tool34312026-10-02
Comparison112026-08-11

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How it is countedHide how it is counted

Every page cipp.app exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. Read October 5, 2026.