Complete tracing, hard budget control, and full GDPR/AI Act compliance — without sending your prompts to the US. Migration took under 10 minutes.

Why I Ditched Helicone for a EU-Hosted LLM Observability Platform (and Saved €400/month)

TL;DR

Helicone is great… until you realize every single prompt and response is going through US servers. For European teams, this became a serious compliance risk. Here’s why I migrated to AIWatch (part of Luxkern) and what changed in production.

The moment everything changed

We had a customer support agent running on Claude 3.5 Sonnet.…