Speko
Ranked 5 of 5 voice agent platforms by recommenders
Benchmarks voice AI models continuously and routes each request to whichever performs best for your language and constraints. Critics question whether the value holds beyond the initial model choice.
Benchmarks voice AI models continuously and routes each request to whichever performs best for your language and constraints. Critics question whether the value holds beyond the initial model choice.
7 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 5
- criticize it
- 2
- approval share
- 71%
Recommended in 1 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 5 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- 2.5 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 1 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, not 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
Continuous model benchmarks drive routing
“we benchmark the models continuously and route based on those measurements for your language and constraints”
Comment from 17 Aug 2026 in “Launch HN: Speko (YC S26) – OpenRouter for Voice AI” “The evals are the value, agreed. The routing is what makes them actionable”
Comment from 17 Aug 2026 in “Launch HN: Speko (YC S26) – OpenRouter for Voice AI” “route each request to whatever wins for your language and constraints”
Comment from 18 Aug 2026 in “Launch HN: Speko (YC S26) – OpenRouter for Voice AI” Interesting concept, looks promising
“Looks awesome, can't wait to try it for some Filipino workflows when it's available!”
Comment from 17 Aug 2026 in “Launch HN: Speko (YC S26) – OpenRouter for Voice AI” “the concept is interesting I must say”
Comment from 17 Aug 2026 in “Launch HN: Speko (YC S26) – OpenRouter for Voice AI” “This looks really interesting.”
Comment from 18 Aug 2026 in “Launch HN: Speko (YC S26) – OpenRouter for Voice AI”
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Questionable value after initial model choice
“So something like OpenRouter for voices offer questionable value given that stakeholders usually make this sort of decisions once at the start of the project.”
Comment from 17 Aug 2026 in “Launch HN: Speko (YC S26) – OpenRouter for Voice AI”
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 | — | — |
| Dograh | 6 | 0 | 100% | 4 | — | — |
| Vapi | 6 | 2 | 75% | 3 | — | — |
| SpekoThis page | 5 | 2 | 71% | 1 | — | — |
What people said
10 of the 11 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“found nothing, it seems you are just selling your services”
“route each request to whatever wins for your language and constraints”
“This looks really interesting.”
“full sessions come with VAD and turn-taking handled - we set them up and tune them for your use case”
“the state of art for all categories is local on-device”
“The evals are the value, agreed. The routing is what makes them actionable”
“Looks awesome, can't wait to try it for some Filipino workflows when it's available!”
“we benchmark the models continuously and route based on those measurements for your language and constraints”
“So something like OpenRouter for voices offer questionable value given that stakeholders usually make this sort of decisions once at the start of the project.”
“the concept is interesting I must say”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.