Dograh
Shares rank 3 of 5 voice agent platforms by recommenders
Open-source voice agent builder that people can self-host, modify and test, offered as a free alternative to Vapi.
Open-source voice agent builder that people can self-host, modify and test, offered as a free alternative to Vapi.
6 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 6
- criticize it
- 0
- approval share
- 100%
Recommended in 4 of 13 months
- November 2025: recommended
- December 2025: recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 6 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- Nobody criticizes itNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 4 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Fully open source, self-hostable
“it's fully OSS- like n8n for voice AI, and you can use it with OpenClaw or Claude code”
Comment from 5 May 2026 in “How OpenAI delivers low-latency voice AI at scale” “Dograh is an OSS project built on the same principles and goes much beyond”
Comment from 3 Mar 2026 in “Show HN: I built a sub-500ms latency voice agent from scratch” “we built dograh for exactly this - FOSS workflow builder for voice agents”
Comment from 15 Nov 2025 in “Is there open source alternative for VAPI or retellai?” - Comment from 12 Mar 2026 in “Show HN: We open sourced Vapi – UI included”
Quick to test and try
“Just did a test drive, CONGRATULATIONS first of all for getting this launched.”
Comment from 15 Dec 2025 in “Show HN: Dograh – an OSS Vapi alternative to quickly build and test voice agents” “will definitely try it out within my company”
Comment from 15 Dec 2025 in “Show HN: Dograh – an OSS Vapi alternative to quickly build and test voice agents”
Other voice agent platforms people recommend
The four most recommended other voice agent platforms, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unpod.ai | 8 | 0 | 100% | 1 | — | — |
| Asterisk AI Voice Agent | 7 | 1 | 88% | 2 | — | — |
| DograhThis page | 6 | 0 | 100% | 4 | — | — |
| Vapi | 6 | 2 | 75% | 3 | — | — |
| Speko | 5 | 2 | 71% | 1 | — | — |
What people said
All 9 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“it's fully OSS- like n8n for voice AI, and you can use it with OpenClaw or Claude code”
“this is open source infra you self-host and modify”
“Dograh is an OSS project built on the same principles and goes much beyond”
“will definitely try it out within my company”
“I get to play with these AI technologies without having to train my own model”
“Just did a test drive, CONGRATULATIONS first of all for getting this launched.”
“Also we enhanced the functionality by creating easier access to extracted variables, call transcripts and recordings”
“Dograh came out of that combination of cost pain and integration pain.”
“we built dograh for exactly this - FOSS workflow builder for voice agents”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.