Sasquatch
IBM QRadar
Sasquatch vs IBM QRadar
One product vs eight.
150 GB / day of security logs (~4.5 TB/mo) · annual list. Two invoices, two architectures, one obvious choice.
Sasquatch
Lossless edge compression · BYO cloud
$72,000
per year · est. · your cloud
Compression18× lossless
Storageyour S3 / GCS / Azure
SIEM + AIbuilt-in
vs
−78%
you keep
$258k / yr
−78%
IBM QRadar
On-prem enterprise SIEM · per-EPS
$330,000
per year · list
ModelPer-EPS license
Deployon-prem / IBM Cloud
QueryAQL
18×
Lossless compression
~78%
Less than QRadar
0
Per-EPS penalties
100%
In your cloud
The annual bill
Stack the meters.
Sasquatch
Bytes in · edge compress · your bucket
IBM QRadar
IBM QRadar list — published rates only
$72,000
Sasquatch SIEM platform
$330,000
EPS license (events/sec)
Flows + appliances
Support + DSM add-ons
$72,000−78%$330,000
The product surface
One SKU. EPS, flows, apps, add-ons.
Sasquatch
One product. One rate.
IBM QRadar
Licensed by event rate — then flows, apps, and add-ons.
1
Bytes-in
Logs · Traces · Metrics
EPS license
Flows (FPM)
Event / Flow Processors
App Exchange apps
UBA add-on
QRadar SOAR (Resilient)
X-Force Threat Intel
Data Node storage
8separate meters
Where the bytes go
Compress at the edge — or after the bill?
Sasquatch
Sources → 18× compress → your bucket → Sasquatch SIEM + AI
IBM QRadar
Sources → QRadar collectors → Ariel → AQL
Your K8s pods
OTLP gRPC / HTTP
Edge compress 18×
4.5 TB → 250 GB
Your S3 / GCS / Azure
your KMS key
LogQL · SPL · PromQL
TraceQL — pick yours
Your security sources
log sources / flows
QRadar collectors
~150 GB/day · per-EPS
Event/Flow processors
Ariel datastore
AQL
Ariel query
The compression
4.5 TB in. 250 GB out.
Sasquatch
Schema-aware Zstd · per-event · SHA-256 verified
IBM QRadar
Ariel payload compression — but licensed by EPS, not bytes, so traffic bursts cost you.
18×95%
ratiosaved
4.5 TB → 250 GB
Lossless · SHA-256(decompress(compress(x))) == SHA-256(x)
~3×67%
ratiosaved
4.5 TB → ~1.5 TB
Format compression — bytes still billed pre-compression.
The meters
One rate. EPS, flows, and the app stack.
Sasquatch
Bytes in at the edge — one rate
IBM QRadar
5 separately metered axes
Bytes in at the edge
Logs · Traces · Metrics — one rate
0YOUR BYTES∞
EPS license
~$2.2–3.4k/GB-day/yrFlows per minute
separate licenseUBA add-on
per-userQRadar SOAR
per-analystX-Force Threat Intel
subscriptionCapability 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× | ~3× |
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 |
Send us your QRadar EPS license.
Per-EPS licensing punishes you for traffic you can’t control. We price on bytes in, losslessly, into your own cloud — and keep the air-gap option QRadar customers rely on.
Sources · verified 2026-06IBM QRadar SIEMQRadar on-prem lifecycleSIEM cost per GB (2026)AWS S3 StandardSasquatch benchmark