Sasquatch
New Relic
Sasquatch vs New Relic
One product vs six.
10 TB / month + 5 Pro full-platform users · annual list. Two invoices, two architectures, one obvious choice.
Sasquatch
Lossless edge compression · BYO cloud
$12,144
per year · list
Dataone rate, all signals
Usersunlimited
Query langsLogQL / SPL / PromQL
vs
−82%
you keep
$56k / yr
−82%
New Relic
Data + user dual-meter observability
$68,460
per year · list
Data$0.40/GB beyond 100 GB free
Full users$349/mo each (Pro, annual)
Query langNRQL
18×
Compression
~82%
Less bill
$349
Per Pro user / mo
0
Per-user lock
The annual bill
Stack the meters.
Sasquatch
Bytes in · edge compress · your bucket
New Relic
New Relic list — published rates only
$12,144
Sasquatch per-byte
$68,460
Data ingest (9,900 GB × $0.40)
5 Pro Full Platform users
$12,144−82%$68,460
The product surface
One SKU. Two dual-running meters.
Sasquatch
One product. One rate.
New Relic
Data meter. User meter. Both run forever.
1
Bytes-in
Logs · Traces · Metrics
Data ingest (GB)
Core User seat
Full Platform User seat
Advanced Compute (CCU)
Synthetic Checks
AI Monitoring
6separate meters
Where the bytes go
Compress at the edge — or after the bill?
Sasquatch
Pods → 18× compress → your bucket → any query lang
New Relic
Pods → New Relic ingest → NR1 platform → NRQL
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 / NR agent
New Relic ingest
$0.40/GB beyond 100 GB
NR1 platform
proprietary storage
NRQL
one query language
The compression
10 TB in. 555 GB out.
Sasquatch
Schema-aware Zstd · per-event · SHA-256 verified
New Relic
Wire compression; bytes billed pre-compression.
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. Two charged simultaneously.
Sasquatch
Bytes in at the edge — one rate
New Relic
5 separately metered axes
Bytes in at the edge
Logs · Traces · Metrics — one rate
0YOUR BYTES∞
Data ingest
$0.40/GB (Original)Data Plus tier
$0.60/GBCore User
$49/user/moPro Full Platform
$349/user/moSynthetic check
$0.005 / checkCapability 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 |
Send us your New Relic data + user breakdown.
We come back with the same observability footprint on Sasquatch + your bucket — no per-user tax.
Sources · verified 2026-05New Relic pricingNew Relic data plansNew Relic user plansAWS S3 StandardSasquatch benchmark