Sasquatch vs IBM QRadar

Kill per-EPS billing.
Priced on bytes, not bursts.

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

QRadar licenses by events-per-second, so a traffic spike or a noisy source can breach your tier and force a costly upgrade — on top of appliance refreshes on IBM's schedule. Sasquatch never penalizes a burst: the same coverage, lossless, in the cloud you already own.

150 GB / day of security logs (~4.5 TB/mo) · annual list · every figure traces to a published rate.

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

And a fraction of the total IBM QRadar 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 IBM QRadar 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.

IBM QRadar
List baseline
3 metered lines
EPS license (events/sec)
Flows + appliances
EPS license (events/sec)64%
Flows + appliances24%
Support + DSM add-ons12%
Sasquatch
One rate
the whole bill, compressed
Yeti SIEM platform
Yeti SIEM platform100%
Egress (compressed)<1%
S3 storage<1%
02The meter stack

One rate. EPS, flows, and the app stack.

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.

IBM QRadarMonthly statement
EPS license~$2.2–3.4k/GB-day/yr
Flows per minuteseparate license
UBA add-onper-user
QRadar SOARper-analyst
X-Force Threat Intelsubscription
Meters to forecast5

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

03The compression

4.5 TB in. 30 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 4.5 TB30 GB on disk
~1% of raw remains
Lossless. SHA-256(decompress(compress(x))) == SHA-256(x).
IBM QRadar~0×
Ariel payload compression — but licensed by EPS, not bytes, so traffic bursts cost you.
raw 4.5 TB~1.5 TB on disk
33% of raw remains
Format compression — bytes still billed pre-compression.
04Where the bytes live

Compressed at the edge — or after the bill?

SasquatchSources → 150× compress → your bucket → Yeti SIEM + AI
Your sources
syslog / API / agents
Edge compress 150×
4.5 TB → 30 GB
Your S3 / GCS / Azure
your KMS key
Yeti SIEM + AI
voice + agentic RCA
IBM QRadarSources → QRadar collectors → Ariel → AQL
Your security sources
log sources / flows
QRadar collectors
~150 GB/day · per-EPS
Event/Flow processors
Ariel datastore
AQL
Ariel query
05Capability matrix

Where each tool wins.

Sasquatch ships 3,700+ detections out of the box, MITRE ATT&CK-mapped, with UEBA, threat intel, voice, and agentic AI investigation, all on lossless retention in your own cloud. The incumbents meter you per GB-day or per-MPS and keep your data in theirs.

Sasquatch ahead on 8 Both ship 6
Capability
Sasquatch
IBM QRadar
Where Sasquatch pulls ahead
Lossless full-fidelity retention
Store in your own cloud + KMS
Compression ratio (security logs)
150×~3×
No per-EPS / per-GB-day metering
Voice — talk to your SIEM
Agentic AI investigation
Agent files your ITSM ticket
UEBA / behavioral analytics
Table stakes — both ship it
Air-gapped / sovereign deploy
Pre-built detection content
3,700+
MITRE ATT&CK mapping
SOAR / automated response
Compliance reporting packs
Threat-intel feed integrations

See it on your own IBM QRadar footprint.

We map the same workload onto Sasquatch in the cloud you already own — lossless, 78% cheaper — and walk you through the reduction line by line. Nothing leaves your environment.