Sasquatch vs Grafana Cloud

Metered at every stage.
Not with Sasquatch.

Cut compute and storage by more than 80% — losslessly, in the cloud you already own.

Grafana Cloud bills each log to process, to write, and to retain, then taxes metrics by active series — the same data metered over and over before you can query it. Sasquatch delivers all of it losslessly, in the cloud you already own.

10 TB / month of logs · Pro tier · annual list · every figure traces to a published rate.

Lossless, SHA-256 verified Your S3 / GCS / Azure Published-rate sourced
Compute + storage · same workload
Grafana CloudBaseline
Sasquatch80%+ less

And a fraction of the total Grafana Cloud bill — lossless, in the cloud you already own.

What the switch is worth
0%+
less compute + storage · lossless · in your cloud
01Where the bill goes

One line item, not a meter stack.

The Grafana Cloud bill splits across a stack of separately metered line items. Sasquatch is one rate on the compressed bytes you keep — the same workload, a fraction of the footprint. Each block is a real line item; the length is its share.

Grafana Cloud
List baseline
4 metered lines
Write (9,950 GB × $0.40)
Process (9,950 GB × $0.05)9%
Write (9,950 GB × $0.40)72%
Retain (9,950 GB × $0.10)18%
Platform + extra users1%
Sasquatch
One rate
the whole bill, compressed
Sasquatch platform
Sasquatch platform97%
Egress (compressed)2%
S3 storage<1%
02The meter stack

One meter. Three on logs alone.

The same workload, two monthly statements. One is a single line you can forecast to the byte; the other is a stack of meters, each on its own unit, re-negotiated at every renewal.

SasquatchMonthly statement
Compressed bytes ingestedone flat rate
Host / node meternot billed
Event indexing taxnot billed
Per-seat / per-identitynot billed
Retention tiernot billed
Meters to forecast1

One line, one unit — forecast it to the byte.

Grafana CloudMonthly statement
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
Meters to forecast5

5 meters, each on its own unit — re-forecast every renewal.

03The compression

10 TB in. 100 GB out.

The full bar is the raw workload. The fill is what actually survives to disk after each product compresses it — shorter is cheaper to store, forever.

Sasquatch
Schema-aware Zstd · per-event · verified
raw 10 TB100 GB on disk
~1% of raw remains
Lossless. SHA-256(decompress(compress(x))) == SHA-256(x).
Grafana Cloud~0×
Loki block compression; bytes still billed at ingest pre-compression.
raw 10 TB2 TB on disk
20% of raw remains
Format compression — bytes still billed pre-compression.
04Where the bytes live

Compressed at the edge — or after the bill?

SasquatchPods → 100× compress → your bucket → LogQL adapter
Your K8s pods
OTLP gRPC / HTTP
Edge compress 100×
10 TB → 100 GB
Your S3 / GCS / Azure
your KMS key
LogQL · SPL · PromQL
TraceQL — pick yours
Grafana CloudPods → Grafana Cloud ingest → Loki/Mimir → LogQL
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
05Capability matrix

Where each tool wins.

Lossless retention, your-cloud sovereignty, bytes-in pricing, voice, and agentic AI investigation, across every signal. We match the table stakes and win where the bill is decided.

Sasquatch ahead on 15 Both ship 3
Capability
Sasquatch
Grafana Cloud
Where Sasquatch pulls ahead
Lossless guarantee
BYO cloud storage + KMS
Compression ratio (K8s)
100×~5×
Bytes-in pricing
No event indexing tax
High-cardinality metrics free
Egress on compressed bytes
Portable archive format
Air-gap deploy
Voice — talk to your telemetry
AI root-cause investigation
Agent files your ITSM ticket
Hot-path forwarder
n/a
AIOps / Watchdog-class
Built-in CSPM / Cloud SIEM
Table stakes — both ship it
No host meter
Multi-language query
700+ pre-built integrations

See it on your own Grafana Cloud footprint.

We map the same workload onto Sasquatch in the cloud you already own — lossless, 61% cheaper — and walk you through the reduction line by line. Nothing leaves your environment.