Comparison

Caver vs Sumo Logic

Caver compared to Sumo Logic. Cloud-native SIEM economics, multi-tenant SaaS tradeoffs, and where each fits.

At a glance

	Sumo Logic	Caver
Deployment model	Multi-tenant SaaS only.	Self-hosted in your cloud, on-prem, or air-gapped.
License model	Per-GB ingest + per-credit pricing.	Per-deployment commercial license-key.
Data residency	Sumo’s chosen regions.	Your chosen environment, your storage account.
Storage	Sumo’s.	Your object storage.
Cold-tier search	Continuous and frequent tiers; performance varies by tier.	Single object-storage tier, consistent performance.
Query languages	Sumo’s own query language plus LogReduce / LogCompare.	SPL + KQL + SQL natively, all on the same backend with a language toggle. Plus AI agents over MCP, Grafana, DuckDB, Trino, Athena over the same OCSF Parquet lake.
Content ecosystem	Sumo Apps catalog (vendor-published, varying depth).	Curated vendor packs that ship with dashboards, saved searches, data inputs, and OCSF field mappings. Daily updates. No third-party install.
Air-gap deployment	Not supported.	Supported, including for caver-industrial.
Custom integration cost	API integration.	Direct repo access in customer environment.
OT / ICS coverage	No first-class OT product. The multi-tenant SaaS deployment model is structurally incompatible with air-gapped industrial environments.	caver-industrial: passive deep-packet decoders for BACnet/IP, S7Comm, IEC 60870-5-104, DNP3, Modbus TCP, EtherNet/IP, OPC-UA. Framework alignment for NIST 800-82 + IEC 62443. Air-gap-friendly deploy. Curated industrial threat intel.
AI security visibility	Limited.	caver-aisec, purpose-built.

Where Sumo Logic wins

Zero infrastructure operations. Sumo runs the platform. Your team writes queries and reads dashboards.
MSP and multi-tenant friendliness. Sumo has a strong MSP / managed-service motion built into the product.
Predictable SaaS economics if your volume is stable. When your ingest doesn’t grow much month-to-month, Sumo’s pricing is straightforward.

Where Caver wins

Data sovereignty. Your data stays in your environment. Important for regulated industries, government work, OT, and any organization with a “data does not leave our infrastructure” policy.
Cost trajectory at scale. Per-GB ingest pricing punishes growth. Per-deployment pricing doesn’t.
Air-gap and on-prem. Sumo cannot run inside an air-gapped industrial network. Caver can.
Open storage format. Your data engineering team can use the same parquet / iceberg data for non-SIEM purposes. Sumo’s storage is opaque to you.
Query however you want. SPL, KQL, and SQL natively on the same backend. AI agents over MCP, Grafana, DuckDB, Trino, Athena over the same Parquet lake. Sumo gives you Sumo’s query language.
Content packs that ship complete. Each Caver pack includes dashboards, saved searches, data inputs, and OCSF field mappings, daily-updated.
OT and AI surfaces. caver-industrial and caver-aisec have no Sumo equivalent.

How to decide

If you’re cloud-native, multi-tenant, and your data-residency requirements don’t matter, Sumo is a reasonable SaaS answer.

If you have regulatory, compliance, or operational reasons to keep data in your own environment, or if your ingest is growing fast enough that per-GB pricing has become an existential conversation, Caver is the structural answer.

If you have OT, ICS, or air-gapped requirements, Caver is the only one of the two that can actually deploy there.

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