Microsoft 365 Lighthouse is a Microsoft 365 management product for handling delegated operations across multiple customer tenants · microsoft.com ↗
The standing depends on who is buying. Every model is asked the same questions for each company size.
Microsoft 365 Admin Center is first at 26%.
AdminDroid 365 is first at 22%. 0 of 14 models made it the first choice when asked directly.
CoreView ONE is first at 37%.
“Start with Microsoft 365 Lighthouse if you have Partner status — it's free and purpose-built by Microsoft”Kimi K2 · Budget-constrained question · first choice
“Native Microsoft integration at no cost, but more limited in breadth compared to third-party tools”DeepSeek V4 Flash · Comparative question · alternative
“Designed for managed service providers; aggregates multiple customers under one pane-of-glass.”GLM 4.7 FlashX · Comparative question · alternative
“For MSPs managing multiple small business tenants: Microsoft 365 Lighthouse (free)”Kimi K2 · Comparative question · alternative
“Microsoft 365 Lighthouse outside its intended scenario. Lighthouse is primarily aimed at managed service providers and CSP environments; it may be a poor fit for a single organization managing one tenant.”Perplexity Sonar · Negative question · warning
The products named in the same answers as Microsoft 365 Lighthouse, over the 35 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 25 | 6 | View → | |
| 20 | 11 | View → | |
| 20 | 1 | View → | |
| 16 | 0 | View → | |
| 14 | 0 | View → | |
| 13 | 3 | View → | |
| 11 | 0 | View → | |
| 9 | 1 | View → | |
| 8 | 1 | View → | |
| 8 | 0 | View → |
What the models named instead of Microsoft 365 Lighthouse →
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
Stated on Microsoft 365 Lighthouse's own site, not checked by Gane.
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 →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 34 of the 35 answers that named Microsoft 365 Lighthouse and are not a share of its labels.
Eighty-five of the 145 domain citations in answers naming Microsoft 365 Lighthouse came from a third party's page. Fourteen 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 are listed as the models cited them.
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Warning | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Kimi K2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |