Dograh Hosting Live In 5 Minutes

Dograh hosting on xCloud gives you a self-hosted voice AI agent platform on a server you control. Deploy Dograh from the OneClick catalog and xCloud starts the pinned 1.49.0 images with private PostgreSQL and Redis, bundled MinIO storage for recordings and a TURN relay for browser calls, generates the secrets, mounts three volumes and publishes the dashboard, API and storage over HTTPS on three domains.

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What is Dograh?

Dograh is, in its README's words, the open-source, self-hostable alternative to Vapi and Retell. You build production voice agents with a visual workflow builder, test them in minutes, and connect the speech-to-text, language model, text-to-speech and telephony providers you choose. The template README adds campaigns and review of recordings and transcripts for every call. Self-hosted Dograh is a voice agent platform you run yourself, instead of the project's own cloud at app.dograh.com. It is licensed under BSD 2-Clause.

On xCloud this template deploys Dograh 1.49.0, pinned by digest, as an API, a dashboard, a pgvector PostgreSQL database, Redis, MinIO storage and a coturn TURN relay. Agents and call history sit on postgres_data and recordings on minio_data. Only one install fits per server, because the TURN relay and its media ports would collide.

From Sign-Up to a Live Voice Agent Platform In Just 3 Easy Steps

A Dograh stack normally means an API, a dashboard, a database, a queue, object storage, a TURN relay, generated secrets, three domains and certificates before the first agent. This is the same result without assembling any of it.

Step 01
Sign Up
Create your xCloud account and pick Dograh from the OneClick catalog. Choose your domain and target server — there are no extra fields to fill in, because xCloud generates the secrets.
Step 02
We Deploy It For You
One click. We bring up the Dograh API and dashboard with PostgreSQL (pgvector) and Redis kept private, MinIO storage and a coturn TURN relay, all pinned by immutable digest. The postgres_data, redis_data and minio_data volumes are mounted and HTTPS is published on the dashboard, API and storage domains. The first start takes about three minutes while the database migrations run.
Step 03
Create Your Account And First Agent
Open your HTTPS Dograh URL and register your account. Then set ENABLE_SIGNUP=false in the Environment editor and redeploy to close registration, connect your speech, language and telephony providers, and build your first voice agent.

Everything Dograh Does, On Your Own Server

Dograh runs in full here: a voice agent builder, call history and recording storage on your own domains, backed by databases you own.

Visual Workflow Builder
Design inbound and outbound voice agents with start nodes, agent nodes, global instructions, tools, transitions and end-call outcomes.
Test In The Browser
Talk to an agent with Test Audio or iterate faster in text with Test Chat before it takes a real call.
Bring Your Own Providers
Connect your own LLM, text-to-speech, speech-to-text and telephony providers, including Twilio, Vonage, Telnyx, Plivo, Vobiz, Cloudonix and Asterisk ARI.
Recordings And Transcripts
Review recordings and transcripts of every call. Recordings are kept in bundled MinIO storage, and uploads and downloads use signed URLs only.
Browser Calls Via TURN
A coturn relay runs on your server for browser voice calls, using one UDP port plus ten consecutive UDP media ports that you open in your own firewall.
Private PostgreSQL And Redis
PostgreSQL (pgvector) and Redis are reachable only inside the install's private network, with no published port.

Everything You Need To Run Your Voice Agents 24/7

Managed hosting for Dograh, so the parts that keep it online are not your problem.

Dograh 1.49.0 deployed instantly
Upstream images pinned by digest
Secrets generated for you
Kept behind xCloud nginx
Free SSL certificate
Server backups and snapshots
Server security updates included
Choose your server region
Unused balance refunded

What You Can Do With Dograh

Inbound call handling
Answer calls with an agent whose conversation flow, rules and outcomes you design in the workflow builder.
Outbound calling
Run outbound agents, for example to screen form submissions for purchase intent, using your own telephony provider.
Voice agents in the browser
Let people talk to an agent from a web page, with a TURN relay on your own server carrying the browser call.
Reviewing every call
Go back through recordings and transcripts of calls to see how an agent handled a conversation and refine its workflow.

Dograh vs Alternatives

Vapi: Vapi is a hosted voice agent platform that Dograh's README positions itself against. Here your agents, workflows and recordings sit on your own server, and this page makes no cost or quality comparison.
Retell: Retell is another hosted voice agent platform named in the same README line. Choose self-hosted Dograh when call data must stay on infrastructure you control and you can bring your own providers.
LiveKit: LiveKit is a separate project with its own OneClick page. Dograh centres on a visual workflow builder for voice agents, with a dashboard, Test Audio and Test Chat, and call review.
Wiring providers together yourself: Connecting speech, language model and telephony providers in your own code gives full control. Dograh replaces that glue with a workflow builder, a dashboard and call review.

Simple Pricing. Everything Included.

Dedicated Cloud VPS sizes, pre-configured for Dograh hosting. Pick the one that fits, and resize any time.

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Dograh on xCloud runs on a dedicated Cloud VPS that we provision, patch, monitor and restore. Deploy faster. Own the server. Stay in control.

Fast Provisioning
Deploy faster using an xCloud Managed Server built with optimized stacks and high-speed SSDs.
Enterprise-grade security
Protect your infrastructure with a free SSL certificate and more advanced security features at no additional cost.
Intuitive Control Panel
From Server creation to application deployment, everything can be managed from our intuitive control panel.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Feel free to contact us with any questions or concerns you may have.

Is Dograh free?

Yes. Dograh is open source under the BSD 2-Clause licence, linked from this page at the pinned tag. xCloud bills for the Cloud VPS under it, not for Dograh. You still pay your own speech, language model and telephony providers, and the project runs a separate cloud service you do not need.

Can you self-host Dograh with Docker?

Yes, and this Dograh Docker hosting template does it for you: the API and dashboard images, PostgreSQL, Redis, MinIO and the TURN relay, all pinned by digest, run on your own server with HTTPS on three domains. It is not a Dograh cloud account, so recordings stay with you.

How much RAM does Dograh need?

The template manifest requires 4096 MB of RAM, 2 CPU cores and 20 GB of disk, and QA measured about 1.1 GB idle. Recordings grow the disk. That floor is why this page sells the 16 GB tier, not the 6 GB one. Only one Dograh install fits on a server.

Can anyone register on my Dograh server?

Yes, until you stop it. Anyone who can reach the dashboard can register, and every registration creates its own organization, so the first account is not a special administrator. Register yours, then set ENABLE_SIGNUP=false in the Environment editor and redeploy.

Why does Dograh use three domains?

One per service: the dashboard, the API and WebSocket address that browsers and telephony providers call, and the object storage address browsers use for recordings. Each is served over HTTPS. Keep the API domain stable once providers are set up, because their webhook addresses contain it.

Do I need to open ports for Dograh browser calls?

Only for browser voice calls: one TURN UDP port and ten consecutive UDP media ports, opened in your own firewall because xCloud does not open them. Each browser call uses two ports, so ten allow about five at once. Telephony calls use WebSockets on the API domain and need none.

Which providers can I connect to Dograh?

You bring your own speech-to-text, language model, text-to-speech and telephony providers. Upstream lists built-in telephony integrations for Twilio, Vonage, Telnyx, Plivo, Vobiz, Cloudonix and Asterisk ARI. QA did not drive real calls or provider webhooks, so test your chosen provider yourself.

Does Dograh send data to its maintainers?

Yes. Creating an account contacts services.dograh.com, and anonymous usage events go to the maintainers. Set ENABLE_TELEMETRY=false in the Environment editor to stop the usage events. The API answers cross-origin browser requests without cookies, so every call needs the bearer token from sign-in.

How do I back up Dograh?

Back up postgres_data, which holds organizations, agents, workflows and call history, and minio_data, which holds recordings and uploads, plus redis_data if you want queued state. Keep the stable environment secrets too, because changing the JWT secret signs everyone out. Test a restore.

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How do I upgrade Dograh?

A running Dograh 1.49.0 install is never rewritten by catalog updates. Back up the three volumes, then adopt a newer template version rather than editing image tags or digests, after reading the upstream release notes. The API runs database migrations on start, so allow a few minutes after a move.

Is Dograh an alternative to Vapi and Retell?

Its README calls it the open-source, self-hostable alternative to both, with a visual workflow builder and your choice of providers. Vapi and Retell are hosted services, and this page makes no feature, cost or call-quality comparison, so run a test agent before you migrate.

Can I cancel anytime?

Yes. There is no lock-in — cancel any time. Hosting is billed monthly and charged for what you actually use, so when you delete the server the unused balance is refunded to your account, less up to 10% in payment-processing fees.