Sasquatch vs Grafana Cloud

One product vs twelve.

10 TB / month of logs · Pro tier · annual list. Two invoices, two architectures, one obvious choice.

Sasquatch
Sasquatch
Lossless edge compression · BYO cloud
$12,144
per year · list
Logsone rate, no per-stage fee
Metricshigh-cardinality free
Query langsLogQL adapter included
−82%
Grafana Cloud
Grafana Cloud
Hosted Grafana + Loki + Mimir + Tempo
$66,570
per year · list
Logs$0.55/GB process + write + retain
Metrics$6.50 / 1k active series
Query langLogQL / PromQL / TraceQL
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18×
Compression
~82%
Less bill
3 fees
Logs has
$0
High-cardinality tax
The annual bill

Stack the meters.

Sasquatch
Sasquatch
Bytes in · edge compress · your bucket
Grafana Cloud
Grafana Cloud
Grafana Cloud list — published rates only
$12,144
Sasquatch per-byte
$66,570
Process (9,950 GB × $0.05)
Write (9,950 GB × $0.40)
Retain (9,950 GB × $0.10)
$12,144−82%$66,570
The product surface

One rate. Three log fees + 4 user tiers.

Sasquatch
Sasquatch
One product. One rate.
Grafana Cloud
Grafana Cloud
Logs metered 3 ways. Users metered 4 ways.
Sasquatch
1
Bytes-in
Logs · Traces · Metrics
Logs · Process
Logs · Write
Logs · Retain
Metrics · 1k active series
Traces · Process
Traces · Write
Traces · Retain
Profiles · Process
Profiles · Write
Profiles · Retain
Visualization user
IRM user
12separate meters
Where the bytes go

Compress at the edge — or after the bill?

Sasquatch
Sasquatch
Pods → 18× compress → your bucket → LogQL adapter
Grafana Cloud
Grafana Cloud
Pods → Grafana Cloud ingest → Loki/Mimir → LogQL
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
OTLP / Alloy / Grafana agent
Grafana Cloud ingest
process + write + retain meters
Loki / Mimir / Tempo
hosted backends
LogQL / PromQL / TraceQL
three query languages
The compression

10 TB in. 555 GB out.

Sasquatch
Sasquatch
Schema-aware Zstd · per-event · SHA-256 verified
Grafana Cloud
Grafana Cloud
Loki block compression; bytes still billed at ingest pre-compression.
18×95%
ratiosaved
10 TB → 555 GB
Lossless · SHA-256(decompress(compress(x))) == SHA-256(x)
~5×80%
ratiosaved
10 TB → 2 TB
Format compression — bytes still billed pre-compression.
The meters

One meter. Three on logs alone.

Sasquatch
Sasquatch
Bytes in at the edge — one rate
Grafana Cloud
Grafana Cloud
5 separately metered axes
Bytes in at the edge
Logs · Traces · Metrics — one rate
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Logs · Process
$0.05/GB
Logs · Write
$0.40/GB
Logs · Retain
$0.10/GB
Metrics · active series
$6.50/1k series
Visualization user
$8/active user
Capability matrix

Where each tool wins.

Last three rows: places the competitor out-ships us today.

Sasquatch
Sasquatch
Grafana Cloud
Grafana Cloud
Lossless guarantee
BYO cloud storage + KMS
Compression ratio (K8s)
18×~5×
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

Send us your Grafana Cloud invoice.

We come back with the same data + same LogQL queries, on Sasquatch + your bucket — without the 3-stage logs meter.

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