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

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