# Kalibr

7 Hacker News commenters recommended Kalibr and 0 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 1 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** Recommended for autonomous routing and observability of AI agent calls, with routing decisions visible in a dashboard rather than hidden inside an LLM.

## Why people recommend it

- Useful observability for agents (3 comments): "we love that you're loving the agentic observability as well as routing" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46782873)) "awesome tool for observation, been using it for a while" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46782815)) "Awesome tool been using for a month or so now." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46782660))
- Autonomous control plane for agents (2 comments): "this feels less like a router and more like an autonomous control plane for agents" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46782848)) "Autonomous control plane is the perfect way to describe Kalibr." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46783116))
- Positive comments from users (4 comments): "It's been amazing to build this product around you" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46782758)) "Kalibr pretty much freed me from that loop." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46787204)) "Exactly the use case we had in mind." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46788102))

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## Cite as

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