In this video, we look at Dograh, an open-source voice AI platform for developers that gives you a Vapi-style visual workflow builder with self-hosting, provider choice, recordings, testing, and control over your infrastructure. We’ll look at why voice AI agents are not just “ChatGPT with a phone number,” how costs stack up across speech-to-text, LLMs, text-to-speech, telephony, and platform fees, and why developers may want an open-source alternative to hosted tools like Vapi, Bland, and Retell. 🔗 Relevant Links Dograh Repo - https://github.com/dograh-hq/dograh Self-host with Docker - https://docs.dograh.com/deployment/docker Dograh - https://app.dograh.com/ ❤️ More about us Radically better observability stack: https://betterstack.com/ Written tutorials: https://betterstack.com/community/ Example projects: https://github.com/BetterStackHQ 📱 Socials Twitter: https://twitter.com/betterstackhq Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/betterstackhq/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@betterstack LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/betterstack 📌 Chapters: 0:00 - Stop Renting Your Voice AI Stack 0:26 - Why AI Phone Agents Get Expensive Fast 1:00 - Voice AI Is Not Just ChatGPT With a Phone Number 1:29 - Dograh Demo: Build a Voice AI Agent Locally 1:57 - Creating a Lead Qualification AI Phone Agent 3:36 - What Is Dograh? Open-Source Voice AI Platform Explained 4:11 - Voice AI Agent Workflow 4:35 - Testing, Tracing, Recordings, Analytics, and Deployment 4:47 - Vapi, Bland, and Retell: Fast but Less Control 5:23 - Pipecat and Vocode: Flexible but More Glue 5:50 - Where Dograh Fits for Devs false 2026-05-21 09:08:36 20260514 6 Science & Technology G:\jelly\meta\library\b8\b8e6868b7016b59bc4e389afda653c00\poster.png Better Stack bin_data bin_data 12 eng progressive False False png png 1280 720 16:9 16:9 90000 progressive False False