# Dograh

6 Hacker News commenters recommended Dograh and 0 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 4 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** Open-source voice agent builder that people can self-host, modify and test, offered as a free alternative to Vapi.

## Why people recommend it

- Fully open source, self-hostable (4 comments): "it's fully OSS- like n8n for voice AI, and you can use it with OpenClaw or Claude code" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48020642)) "Dograh is an OSS project built on the same principles and goes much beyond" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47235885)) "we built dograh for exactly this - FOSS workflow builder for voice agents" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45936435))
- Quick to test and try (2 comments): "Just did a test drive, CONGRATULATIONS first of all for getting this launched." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46270202)) "will definitely try it out within my company" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46270751))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [Unpod.ai](https://hackerapproved.com/p/unpod-ai.md): 8 recommend
- [Asterisk AI Voice Agent](https://hackerapproved.com/p/asterisk-ai-voice-agent.md): 7 recommend
- [Vapi](https://hackerapproved.com/p/vapi.md): 6 recommend
- [Speko](https://hackerapproved.com/p/speko.md): 5 recommend

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Dograh", https://hackerapproved.com/p/dograh/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).