Can we bill users on Tenant based on number of active users in tenant .

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Can we bill users on Tenant based on number of active users in tenant .

Shreyas Rastogi 225

Suppose we have 20 users on Tenant with E5 Licence assigned . If at any given time there are only 10 users that are active in that month ,

Is there a billing model for only Active users (10 in this case) not for all 20 users every month .

Thanks in advance!!!

Marilee Turscak-MSFT 37,196 Reputation points Microsoft Employee Moderator

2023-12-01T20:17:54.3033333+00:00

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2023-12-05T20:27:48.33+00:00

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Marilee Turscak-MSFT 37,196 Reputation points Microsoft Employee Moderator

2023-12-01T20:17:54.3033333+00:00

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Marilee Turscak-MSFT 37,196 Microsoft Employee Moderator

@Shreyas Rastogi ,

There isn't currently a model like this. You pay when you purchase a license, whether it is used or not.

One option in your case though would be to detect inactive users via Microsoft Graph or script and remove the users and licenses that you do not need.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/entra/identity/monitoring-health/howto-manage-inactive-user-accounts

See also: Get inactive users with licenses assigned

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Shreyas Rastogi 225 Reputation points

2023-12-01T20:29:41.38+00:00

@Marilee Turscak-MSFT the use case is after accessing once , same user might require access again after say a gap of 5-6 months , so can't delete the user . so technically user uses the services for 2 out of 12 months only but billed for entire year , was also thinking if we can move the user to non licenced group . I understand there is no such model , once user is assigned a licence he gets billed was looking for options.
Marilee Turscak-MSFT 37,196 Reputation points Microsoft Employee Moderator

2023-12-01T21:28:42.7733333+00:00

Yes, there is nothing out-of-the-box for this, but one possibility would be to create a script that removes and re-adds licenses based on the audit information for sign in activity. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/76856309/how-do-i-remove-all-licenses-from-a-user-using-the-azuread-v2-module

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