Dograh - The open source VAPI alternative

@mdsahilnoob - Thanks a lot for your support.

Yes, we have almost everything that Vapi has only more. We are always hungry for product feedback and the community is always available to help. See you there!!

@mdsahilnoob Thanks for the support! Glad Dograh’s open-source approach resonates.

Hi @mdsahilnoob, Absolutely. Cost is a big point.
Our cloud hosted platform is at a flat 1¢/min platform fee with your own provider keys, or you can self-host the open-source build for zero platform fee. Plus hybrid voice (human clips + cloned TTS) can cut latency and cost to a great deal on the underlying usage.

Thanks@mdsahilnoob  . While both Vapi and retell are great products, but with Dograh you get the flexibility to self host and control costs (dramatically lower with self hosting ) - and also complete ownership of your product (not renting)

@zakiah_hashim - Thank you for your message.

Two things are different - 1. Quality of the audio. Audio over browser is sampled at a higher sample rate compared to telephony - typically at 24k Hz compared to 8k Hz. 2. Signaling - Telephony has a better backbone infrastructure for faster signaling and data routing. It gets lower latency RTT compared to browser.

@zakiah_hashim thanks for asking this. You definitely get better audio quality and you can integrate on any web based system (website/app) using our add to website widget in the settings within any agent

@zakiah_hashim Thank your for support and question.

Another big practical difference is that the browser call doubles as your test mode. You can try unpublished changes to a bot straight from the dashboard without dialing in or redeploying, which makes iterating much faster.

The other change is how context reaches the agent: on a phone call it comes through the telephony layer(if inbound) or the API trigger, whereas in a web call you inject it yourself via template context variables.

We recently added the ability to simulate call direction (inbound vs outbound) there too, so you can reproduce a real scenario before going live or spending time and extra money on the telephony costs.

@zakiah_hashim Browser calls typically offer higher-quality audio, while phone calls usually have lower latency. Browser calls also support website or app integration and let you test unpublished agent changes directly from the dashboard.

@shikhil_kumar_gupta - Thank you for your comment.

Yes definitely. Dograh has excellent support for Tool Calls which enables the voice agents to be able to call APIs and interact with external systems during the course of its conversation.

@shikhil_kumar_gupta Yes, Dograh agents can call APIs using tool calls and take actions in external systems during a conversation.

@shikhil_kumar_gupta Thank you for a this question. Beyond generic tool calls, Dograh is MCP-native, so you can plug your agent into any existing MCP server and it inherits those tools without you writing custom glue for each API. And because agents are multi-step, you can trigger a specific action at the right point in the flow like look up an account during verification, book the slot after qualifying, warm-transfer to a human when needed.

Do try us and we would love to hear your feedback on this. A lot of our clients as well as us have found the MCP tool really powerful in designing an agent efficiently.

Thanks @shikhil_kumar_gupta . Dograh has inbuilt tool calling for API calls and MCP calling. you can create tools and attach them to your voice agent (with simple english instructions on when to make a particular tool call). The agnet invokes the right tool to make an MCP/API call to any external system as required.

@nihalkumar_dwivedi Yes, agencies and developers can white-label Dograh, deploy it for customers, and charge under their own pricing model.

@nihalkumar_dwivedi - Thank you for your message.

Yes, @Dograh comes with a very permissive licence that allows you to self host and white-label the solution and use it for commercial purposes.

You can also use our hosted platform as a headless API provider if you have smaller volume to start with and then move on to self host on your own infrastructure as the volume grows.

@nihalkumar_dwivedi One practical thing worth adding: because it's self-hosted, you can stand up an isolated deployment per client (on-prem or in their VPC) and brand it end to end. That's a real selling point for regulated customers - you can tell them their calls, recordings and transcripts never leave their own boundary, which is often what closes the deal at your own pricing.

@nihalkumar_dwivedi Yes, and self-hosting also gives agencies a strong story around privacy and control for their customers.

@yahia_bakour3 - Thank you so much for your support.

Wishing you loads of luck with @Context.dev

@yahia_bakour3 Thank you for the support!

@yahia_bakour3 Thanks for the support! Wishing Context.dev the best!

Thanks @yahia_bakour3  :)

@rahul_dalmia4 - Thank you for your comment.

Not right now. But this is one of the growth engine that we have thought about in the past.

Thanks @rahul_dalmia4 . We will be adding templates in the coming weeks - as of now a template marketplace doesnt exist.
Having said that you can create any voice agent template from the agent builder itself in <60seconds. Or even better, we have amazing MCP that can build a ready to go voice agent within minutes.

@rahul_dalmia4 Not yet. We’re planning to add agent templates in the coming weeks, with a marketplace as a future possibility.

@rahul_dalmia4 Templates are something we've been wanting to add for a long time but didn't get around to because of priority releases. You'll see them soon. Thanks for your comment.

@iamyuhanliu - Thank you for you comment.

Yes, ability to self host enables you to own your stack completely.

Thanks @iamyuhanliu . we are strong believers in open source and intent to launch more powerful features in the communication stack int he coming days

@iamyuhanliu Thanks, Yuhan! Self-hosting and model choice are central to keeping the stack flexible and fully under your control.

@iamyuhanliu thank you! That's exactly the outcome we were going for, so good to hear it come across. Would love to know what you end up building with it.

@productrambler - Thank you for your comment.

Please reachout to us if you need any help setting up Dograh. All the best with @Mira

@productrambler Thanks for the support! Flexibility and control are exactly why we built Dograh.

@productrambler thank you! Hosting and model choice were the two things we didn't want to compromise on, so it's good to hear that's what stood out. Please do give it a spin and tell us how it goes.

Thanks @productrambler  - we are consistently adding more models support and also get integrations from models regularly . Reachout if you need us to look at anything specific

Thanks @mladen_petrovic 
I hope you build something amazing - keep us posted. We are launching more stuff in the coming weeks for self hosters- including ai chat converstaions, full observability evals for voice agents and more. Do keep an eye on our upcoming launches

@mladen_petrovic Thanks! Glad Dograh’s self-hosting and local model support fit what you need.

@mladen_petrovic hank you! Curious which models you're planning to run locally?