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Basic and Test Plans seats, Visual Studio subscribers, and who has not signed in.

opsen reads your Azure DevOps organisation's user entitlements: every person, their access level, and when they last signed in. It prices them at Microsoft's list prices and finds seats nobody is using.

Connect

Settings → Connections → Azure DevOps. Enter the organisation name (dev.azure.com/your-org works) and a personal access token.

Create the token in Azure DevOps under User settings → Personal access tokens, scoped to this organisation, with:

Scope Why
Member entitlement management: Read Access levels and last sign-in for every user
Code: Read Completed pull requests, counted for the fee
Member entitlement management: Read & write Only if you want one-click moves to Stakeholder

Microsoft retires all-organisation tokens on December 1, 2026; use an organisation-scoped one.

What it finds

Finding Rule Priced at
Dormant Basic seats No sign-in in 90 days, account older than 30 days $6 a user a month, only for seats above the 5 free
Dormant Basic + Test Plans Same rule $52 a user a month
Unused Visual Studio subscriptions Subscriber with no sign-in in 90 days Enterprise $250, Professional $45 a month (cloud subscription list price)

Acting on it

Move to Stakeholder changes the chosen users' access level in one click. They keep their account, boards and work items; the Basic charge stops. Stakeholders cannot read code in private projects, so untick anyone who still needs it. Anyone can be given Basic again in seconds.

Visual Studio subscriptions are managed in the Visual Studio admin portal: export the list and remove them there.