Dograh

In plain words

Dograh is an open-source, self-hosted voice agent platform that lets developers build conversational AI without relying on closed services. It offers a visual flow builder, support for 30+ integrations, multiple AI model options including local models, telephony capabilities, and human transfer features. Users can deploy on their own servers or cloud infrastructure, keeping all data within their perimeter for compliance and security. The platform supports speech-to-speech pipelines and integrates with Claude via MCP for custom voice agent development.

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From the sources

Closed voice platforms make you rent your own agents. Dograh is completely open source- nothing is gated. Visual flow builder, add your model key across 30+ integrations or use local models, telephony, human transfer, and advanced QA & monitoring - all free to self-host in one command. Also connect your claude code with MCP to build voice agents for a use case or call recordings.

Open-source, self-hostable voice agent platform. Bring your own models, drive it from MCP, deploy on your servers or our cloud. The open-source alternative to Vapi and Retell.

Click any node to see the providers you can plug in. Pick your inbound channel, STT, LLM, TTS, and telephony. Or skip the cascade entirely and switch the whole pipeline to speech-to-speech. Deploy Dograh on-prem or inside the VPC of your own cloud - even the AI models can be served within your perimeter or fully air-gapped, so no calls, recordings, transcripts, or model inference ever leave your boundary. Data security, data residency, and compliance, built in by default. Auditable open source, enterprise-ready for the most regulated industries and jurisdictions. Data stays in your perimeter, so your existing certifications and controls keep covering it — no third-party vendor to audit.…from dograh.com

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