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Microsoft 365 Lighthouse

Microsoft 365 Lighthouse is a Microsoft 365 management product for handling delegated operations across multiple customer tenants · microsoft.com ↗

#14Best rank (mid-market)
11/14Models named it
2First choices
13Warnings
November 2026 Edition · all company sizes counted.
Ranked inMicrosoft 365 management #14 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

“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

What gives them pause

“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

Also on the shortlist

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.

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.

At a glance

Stated on Microsoft 365 Lighthouse's own site, not checked by Gane.

Price stated
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Integrations
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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.

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Sources returned with these answers

The sites and pages the answers that named Microsoft 365 Lighthouse 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 34 of the 35 answers that named Microsoft 365 Lighthouse and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

learn.microsoft.comIts own site23
microsoft.comIts own site23
g2.com22
expertinsights.com15
gane.ai/indexpublisher (Gane)14
guideflow.com12
admindroid.com9
coreview.com9
msp.toolsinfo.com9
syncrosecure.com9

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 cited

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

By model

How each model answered on Microsoft 365 Lighthouse across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.
ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionWarningLabels
Claude Haiku 4.501001
GPT-5.4 mini00000
Gemini 3.5 Flash00000
Perplexity Sonar01012
Grok 4.2000000
Mistral Small00101
DeepSeek V4 Flash01001
Llama 4 Maverick00000
Qwen 3.7 Flash01001
Kimi K211002
GLM 4.7 FlashX01001
MiniMax M2.500000
GPT-6 Luna01001
Muse Glimmer 30B00000