Sasquatch
Microsoft Sentinel
Sasquatch vs Microsoft Sentinel
One product vs eight.
100 GB / day of security logs (~3 TB/mo) · annual list. Two invoices, two architectures, one obvious choice.
Sasquatch
Lossless edge compression · BYO cloud
$48,000
per year · est. · your cloud
Compression18× lossless
Cloudany S3 / GCS / Azure
SIEM + AIbuilt-in
vs
−67%
you keep
$97k / yr
−67%
Microsoft Sentinel
Cloud-native SIEM on Azure Monitor
$145,000
per year · list
ModelPer-GB commit tier
CloudAzure only
Retentionanalytics / aux / archive
18×
Lossless compression
~67%
Less than Sentinel
0
Events dropped
Any
Cloud, not just Azure
The annual bill
Stack the meters.
Sasquatch
Bytes in · edge compress · your bucket
Microsoft Sentinel
Microsoft Sentinel list — published rates only
$48,000
Sasquatch SIEM platform
$145,000
Analytics ingest (commit)
Log Analytics retention
Defender / Copilot / SOAR
$48,000−67%$145,000
The product surface
One SKU. A meter stack.
Sasquatch
One product. One rate.
Microsoft Sentinel
Ingest tiers, retention, Copilot, automation — metered apart.
1
Bytes-in
Logs · Traces · Metrics
Analytics logs
Auxiliary logs
Basic logs
Archive
Log Analytics
Defender XDR
Security Copilot (SCU)
Logic Apps (SOAR)
8separate meters
Where the bytes go
Compress at the edge — or after the bill?
Sasquatch
Sources → 18× compress → your bucket → Sasquatch SIEM + AI
Microsoft Sentinel
Sources → Sentinel → Log Analytics → KQL
Your K8s pods
OTLP gRPC / HTTP
Edge compress 18×
3 TB → 167 GB
Your S3 / GCS / Azure
your KMS key
LogQL · SPL · PromQL
TraceQL — pick yours
Your security sources
connectors / agents
Sentinel ingest
100 GB/day · commit tier
Log Analytics
Azure Monitor · Azure-only
KQL
Kusto query
The compression
3 TB in. 167 GB out.
Sasquatch
Schema-aware Zstd · per-event · SHA-256 verified
Microsoft Sentinel
Azure Monitor storage — ingest billed pre-compression, and only ever in Azure.
18×95%
ratiosaved
3 TB → 167 GB
Lossless · SHA-256(decompress(compress(x))) == SHA-256(x)
~2×50%
ratiosaved
3 TB → ~1.5 TB
Wire-only compression — bytes uncompressed at intake.
The meters
One rate. Ingest tiers + retention + Copilot.
Sasquatch
Bytes in at the edge — one rate
Microsoft Sentinel
5 separately metered axes
Bytes in at the edge
Logs · Traces · Metrics — one rate
0YOUR BYTES∞
Analytics ingest
$1.25–1.9k/GB-day/yrAuxiliary / Basic
$0.74/GB · limited queryRetention
per-GB-monthSecurity Copilot
per SCU / hourLogic Apps (SOAR)
per-actionCapability matrix
Where each tool wins.
Bottom six rows: mature SOC content where the incumbent still leads us today. We ship the lossless retention, your-cloud sovereignty, voice, and agentic AI — and we say plainly where we are still catching up.
Lossless full-fidelity retention | ||
Store in your own cloud + KMS | ||
Compression ratio (security logs) | 18× | ~2× |
No per-EPS / per-GB-day metering | ||
Voice — talk to your SIEM | ||
Agentic AI investigation | ||
Agent files your ITSM ticket | ||
Air-gapped / sovereign deploy | ||
Pre-built detection content | ||
MITRE ATT&CK mapping | ||
UEBA / behavioral analytics | ||
SOAR / automated response | ||
Compliance reporting packs | ||
Threat-intel feed integrations |
Show us your Sentinel + Log Analytics bill.
We back-compute the same security footprint on Sasquatch — losslessly compressed, in the cloud you already pay for (not just Azure), with voice + agentic investigation built in.