Sasquatch vs Splunk

Your bill shouldn't climb
just for renewing.

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

Splunk prices on ingest, layers Enterprise Security on top, and lifts the bill at every renewal — a contract that costs more just for staying put. Sasquatch gives you the same data without the yearly climb, in the cloud you already own.

40 TB / month of K8s logs (~1.3 TB/day) · annual list · every figure traces to a published rate.

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

And a fraction of the total Splunk 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 Splunk 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.

Splunk
List baseline
3 metered lines
Cloud ingest (~1.3 TB/d)
Enterprise Security (SIEM)
Cloud ingest (~1.3 TB/d)64%
Enterprise Security (SIEM)26%
+9% annual renewal uplift10%
Sasquatch
One rate
the whole bill, compressed
Sasquatch platform
Sasquatch platform99%
Egress (compressed)1%
S3 storage<1%
02The meter stack

One rate. Four contradictory models.

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.

SplunkMonthly statement
Cloud ingest (GB/day)~$1.2k-1.6k/GB/day/yr
Workload (SVCs)~$55-75k/SVC/yr
Enterprise Security+$25-45/GB/day
Entity / Activityhosts · MTS · sessions
Annual renewal hike+9% per renewal
Meters to forecast5

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

03The compression

40 TB in. 400 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 40 TB400 GB on disk
~1% of raw remains
Lossless. SHA-256(decompress(compress(x))) == SHA-256(x).
Splunk~0×
tsidx + LZ-family compression — proprietary, not portable.
raw 40 TB~13 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?

SasquatchPods → 100× compress → your bucket → SPL adapter
Your K8s pods
OTLP gRPC / HTTP
Edge compress 100×
40 TB → 400 GB
Your S3 / GCS / Azure
your KMS key
LogQL · SPL · PromQL
TraceQL — pick yours
SplunkForwarder → Splunk Cloud index → SPL only
Your K8s pods
HEC / forwarder agent
Splunk Cloud ingest
~1.3 TB/day · volume megadeal
Splunk indexer
proprietary tsidx
SPL
one query language
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 14 Both ship 4
Capability
Sasquatch
Splunk
Where Sasquatch pulls ahead
Lossless guarantee
BYO cloud storage + KMS
Compression ratio (K8s)
100×~3×
Bytes-in pricing
No host meter
No event indexing tax
High-cardinality metrics free
Egress on compressed bytes
Multi-language query
Portable archive format
Voice — talk to your telemetry
AI root-cause investigation
Agent files your ITSM ticket
Hot-path forwarder
n/a
Table stakes — both ship it
Air-gap deploy
AIOps / Watchdog-class
700+ pre-built integrations
Built-in CSPM / Cloud SIEM

See it on your own Splunk footprint.

We map the same workload onto Sasquatch in the cloud you already own — lossless, 70% cheaper — and walk you through the reduction line by line. Nothing leaves your environment.