Sasquatch
CrowdStrike
Sasquatch vs CrowdStrike
One product vs eight.
100 GB / day of security logs (~3 TB/mo) · annual list. Two invoices, two architectures, one obvious choice.
Sasquatch
Lossless edge compression · BYO cloud
$48,000
per year · est. · your cloud
Compression18× lossless
Storageyour S3 / GCS / Azure
SIEM + AIbuilt-in
vs
−52%
you keep
$52k / yr
−52%
CrowdStrike
Falcon Next-Gen SIEM (LogScale)
$100,000
per year · list
ModelPer-GB ingest
StorageCrowdStrike cloud
QueryCQL
18×
Lossless compression
~52%
Less than CrowdStrike
0
Events dropped
100%
In your cloud
The annual bill
Stack the meters.
Sasquatch
Bytes in · edge compress · your bucket
CrowdStrike
CrowdStrike list — published rates only
$48,000
Sasquatch SIEM platform
$100,000
NG-SIEM ingest (100 GB/d)
Search + retention
Connectors / EA minimum
$48,000−52%$100,000
The product surface
One SKU. A module stack.
Sasquatch
One product. One rate.
CrowdStrike
NG-SIEM plus the Falcon module estate.
1
Bytes-in
Logs · Traces · Metrics
Next-Gen SIEM
Insight XDR
Identity Protection
Cloud Security
Charlotte AI
Falcon Fusion SOAR
Threat Intelligence
Data Connectors
8separate meters
Where the bytes go
Compress at the edge — or after the bill?
Sasquatch
Sources → 18× compress → your bucket → Sasquatch SIEM + AI
CrowdStrike
Sources → CrowdStrike cloud → LogScale → CQL
Your K8s pods
OTLP gRPC / HTTP
Edge compress 18×
3 TB → 167 GB
Your S3 / GCS / Azure
your KMS key
LogQL · SPL · PromQL
TraceQL — pick yours
Your security sources
syslog / API / connectors
CrowdStrike cloud
100 GB/day ingest
LogScale store
schema-on-read · their cloud
CQL / NG-SIEM
CrowdStrike query
The compression
3 TB in. 167 GB out.
Sasquatch
Schema-aware Zstd · per-event · SHA-256 verified
CrowdStrike
Indexing-free store — but the data lives in CrowdStrike cloud, not yours.
18×95%
ratiosaved
3 TB → 167 GB
Lossless · SHA-256(decompress(compress(x))) == SHA-256(x)
~3×67%
ratiosaved
3 TB → ~1 TB
Format compression — bytes still billed pre-compression.
The meters
One rate. Per-GB plus the module stack.
Sasquatch
Bytes in at the edge — one rate
CrowdStrike
5 separately metered axes
Bytes in at the edge
Logs · Traces · Metrics — one rate
0YOUR BYTES∞
NG-SIEM ingest
$0.55–1.10/GBThird-party data
10 GB/day free (XDR)Charlotte AI
consumption add-onIdentity Protection
per-identityThreat Intelligence
tiered subscriptionCapability matrix
Where each tool wins.
Bottom six rows: mature SOC content where the incumbent still leads us today. We ship the lossless retention, your-cloud sovereignty, voice, and agentic AI — and we say plainly where we are still catching up.
Lossless full-fidelity retention | ||
Store in your own cloud + KMS | ||
Compression ratio (security logs) | 18× | ~3× |
No per-EPS / per-GB-day metering | ||
Voice — talk to your SIEM | ||
Agentic AI investigation | ||
Agent files your ITSM ticket | ||
Air-gapped / sovereign deploy | ||
Pre-built detection content | ||
MITRE ATT&CK mapping | ||
UEBA / behavioral analytics | ||
SOAR / automated response | ||
Compliance reporting packs | ||
Threat-intel feed integrations |
Send us your CrowdStrike NG-SIEM bill.
CrowdStrike is the cheapest SIEM going — and we still come in lower, lossless, and in YOUR cloud, with voice + agentic investigation built in. We back-compute the line items.
Sources · verified 2026-06CrowdStrike Next-Gen SIEMFalcon LogScaleSIEM cost per GB (2026)AWS S3 StandardSasquatch benchmark