Sasquatch
Mezmo
Sasquatch vs Mezmo
One product vs four.
5 TB / month of K8s logs · 30-day retention · annual list. Two invoices, two architectures, one obvious choice.
Sasquatch
Lossless edge compression · BYO cloud
$13,000
per year · est. · your cloud
Compression18× lossless
Storageyour S3
Dropped0 events
vs
−46%
you keep
$11k / yr
−46%
Mezmo
Telemetry pipeline + log analysis
$24,000
per year · list
ModelIngest + retention $/GB
ReductionPipeline filtering (lossy)
StorageMezmo cloud
18×
Lossless compression
~46%
Less than Mezmo
0
Events dropped
$0.40
Mezmo $/GB all-in
The annual bill
Stack the meters.
Sasquatch
Bytes in · edge compress · your bucket
Mezmo
Mezmo list — published rates only
$13,000
Sasquatch platform
$24,000
Data ingest (5 TB × $0.20)
Retention (30-day × $0.20)
$13,000−46%$24,000
The product surface
One SKU. Four meters.
Sasquatch
One product. One rate.
Mezmo
Ingest, retain, pipeline, add-ons — metered apart.
1
Bytes-in
Logs · Traces · Metrics
Data ingestion (GB)
Data retention (GB)
Telemetry Pipeline (custom)
Enterprise / SSO add-ons
4separate meters
Where the bytes go
Compress at the edge — or after the bill?
Sasquatch
Pods → 18× lossless compress → your bucket → any query lang
Mezmo
Pods → Mezmo pipeline (lossy) → Mezmo cloud → Mezmo search
Your K8s pods
OTLP gRPC / HTTP
Edge compress 18×
5 TB → 278 GB
Your S3 / GCS / Azure
your KMS key
LogQL · SPL · PromQL
TraceQL — pick yours
Your K8s pods
agent / OTLP / Mezmo Edge
Mezmo pipeline
filter / drop / transform (lossy)
Mezmo cloud
hosted index + retention
Mezmo search
proprietary query UI
The compression
5 TB in. 278 GB out.
Sasquatch
Schema-aware Zstd · per-event · SHA-256 verified
Mezmo
Pipeline reduces volume by dropping / transforming events — lossy by design. Stored bytes get gzip-class (~2×) compression only.
18×95%
ratiosaved
5 TB → 278 GB
Lossless · SHA-256(decompress(compress(x))) == SHA-256(x)
~2×50%
ratiosaved
5 TB → ~2.5 TB
Wire-only compression — bytes uncompressed at intake.
The meters
One rate. Ingest, retain, and a pipeline upsell.
Sasquatch
Bytes in at the edge — one rate
Mezmo
5 separately metered axes
Bytes in at the edge
Logs · Traces · Metrics — one rate
0YOUR BYTES∞
Data ingestion
$0.20/GB (volume)Data retention
$0.20/GB · 30-dayProfessional list
from $0.80/GB · 3-dayTelemetry pipeline
custom / contact salesEnterprise add-ons
SSO · RBAC · supportCapability 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 | ||
Voice — talk to your telemetry | ||
AI root-cause investigation | ||
Agent files your ITSM ticket | ||
Hot-path forwarder | n/a | |
AIOps / Watchdog-class | ||
700+ pre-built integrations | ||
Built-in CSPM / Cloud SIEM |
Send us your Mezmo ingest + retention bill.
We come back with the same logs — every event intact, losslessly compressed — on Sasquatch + your bucket. No pipeline dropping data to hit a number.
Sources · verified 2026-05Mezmo pricingMezmo log analysisMezmo pricing models (blog)AWS S3 StandardSasquatch benchmark