Sasquatch
Datadog
Sasquatch vs Datadog
One product vs twelve.
10 TB / month of K8s logs · annual list price. Two invoices, two architectures, one obvious choice.
Sasquatch
Lossless edge compression · BYO cloud
$12,144
per year · list
Compression18×
Storageyour S3
Query langsLogQL / SPL / PromQL
vs
−91%
you keep
$121k / yr
−91%
Datadog
Hosted SaaS observability
$133,716
per year · list
Compression~2× gzip
StorageDatadog cloud
Query langsDDQL only
18×
Compression
~91%
Less bill
5→1
Meters
0
New query langs
The annual bill
Stack the meters.
Sasquatch
Bytes in · edge compress · your bucket
Datadog
Datadog list — published rates only
$12,144
Sasquatch per-byte
$133,716
Ingest
Indexed retention (15d)
Egress (raw)
$12,144−91%$133,716
The product surface
One SKU. Twelve SKUs.
Sasquatch
One product. One rate.
Datadog
Twelve products. Twelve meters.
1
Bytes-in
Logs · Traces · Metrics
Infrastructure
Logs
APM
RUM
Synthetics
Network
Database
Profiler
Cloud SIEM
CSPM
Bits AI
Workflows
12separate meters
Where the bytes go
Compress at the edge — or after the bill?
Sasquatch
Pods → 18× compress → your bucket → any query lang
Datadog
Pods → cloud egress → Datadog cloud → DDQL
Your K8s pods
OTLP gRPC / HTTP
Edge compress 18×
10 TB → 555 GB
Your S3 / GCS / Azure
your KMS key
LogQL · SPL · PromQL
TraceQL — pick yours
Your K8s pods
raw OTLP / agent
Cloud egress
10 TB raw · $0.09/GB
Datadog cloud
proprietary index
DDQL
one query language
The compression
10 TB in. 555 GB out.
Sasquatch
Schema-aware Zstd · per-event · SHA-256 verified
Datadog
Wire-only compression — bytes uncompressed at intake.
18×95%
ratiosaved
10 TB → 555 GB
Lossless · SHA-256(decompress(compress(x))) == SHA-256(x)
~2×50%
ratiosaved
10 TB → 5 TB
Wire-only compression — bytes uncompressed at intake.
The meters
One meter. Five meters.
Sasquatch
Bytes in at the edge — one rate
Datadog
5 separately metered axes
Bytes in at the edge
Logs · Traces · Metrics — one rate
0YOUR BYTES∞
Logs
$0.10/GB + $1.27/M evInfrastructure
$15/host/moAPM
$31/host/moRUM
$1.50/1k sessionsCustom Metrics
$5/100 metrics/moCapability matrix
Where each tool wins.
Last three rows: places the competitor out-ships us today.
Lossless guarantee | ||
BYO cloud storage + KMS | ||
Compression ratio (K8s) | 18× | ~2× |
Bytes-in pricing | ||
No host meter | ||
No event indexing tax | ||
High-cardinality metrics free | ||
Egress on compressed bytes | ||
Multi-language query | ||
Portable archive format | ||
Air-gap deploy | ||
Hot-path forwarder | n/a | |
AIOps / Watchdog-class | ||
700+ pre-built integrations | ||
Built-in CSPM / Cloud SIEM |
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