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Telegram pricing: Telegram channel API

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40% complete: 2 of the 5 key fields we checkSee the 5 fields
$0.00per 1,000 channelsWe haven't run Telegram through our Telegram channel API benchmark yet.Half of the 98 plans we rank by price cost $1.469 per 1,000 channels or less. This plan has the lowest price per 1,000 channels of the 98 plans.
Plan: Free Telegram's only plan
Call: GET /bot<token>/getChat Telegram's only call
API: Telegram channel API Telegram's only API

About this item

  • Live. You get the channel from Telegram when you call the API.
  • 2 of the 5 key fields we check. Bio, Photo.
  • Nothing to pay.
  • One call. You send chat_id to GET /bot<token>/getChat. The call returns the channel's details.
  • Who can get it: anyone who registers a bot with @BotFather. Keep data: with conditions. Use data: with conditions.

Telegram: Telegram channel API alternatives

Telegram alternatives: every Telegram channel API plan compared

We list other providers' plans closest to this plan in price per 1,000 channels. Each plan in the table gives live data.

This planTelegram, freeAnysite, freeFetchGoblin, freeDataXAPI, freeParse, free
$ per 1,000 channels$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00
Completeness40%100%100%80%40%
Billingfreefreefreefreefree
Pay$0$0$0$0$0
Enough fornot published100 calls50 calls, once50 calls, once200 calls
Freshnesslivelivelivelivelive
Who can get itanyone who registers a bot with @BotFatheranyone at least 18 years old or of the age of majority in their jurisdiction, who has not had a credit plan before, starting the trial takes a cardanyone with a Google account or a permanent email address, who has authority to enter the terms for themselves or their organizationone free credit per email address: developers and business users with the legal capacity their use requiresanyone of legal age to enter into the Terms of Service, or acting for an organization they have the legal authority to bind

Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-02.

  1. core.telegram.org/bots
  2. core.telegram.org/bots/api
  3. core.telegram.org/bots/faq
  4. telegram.org/tos/bot-developers

Product details

The key fields this plan's answer can hold, then each filled column in its row on the sheet.

  • Bio
  • Photo
  • Verified, not in the answer
  • Followers, not in the answer
  • Posts, not in the answer
Price
$ per 1,000 channels$0.00
Percall
Billingfree
Charges
Also pays fornothing else
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchThe Telegram Bot Platform hosts more than 10 million bots and is free for both users and developers. [...] Developers communicate with this server via an easy HTTPS-interface with a simplified version of the Telegram API – known as the Bot API.
Data
Freshnesslive
Keep data4.2. Data Storage and Retention of its Bot Developer Terms: "Without limiting Sections 4 and 9, and except as expressly required by applicable law, Telegram imposes certain obligations regarding the degree to which you may continue to retain user data over time. [...] Namely, insofar as you are allowed to do so under applicable law, you must, without undue delay: (a) Delete user data upon their (or our, as the case may be) request that you do so, (b) Delete user data when retention thereof becomes unnecessary to operate your TPA or to fulfill any other obligation as the case may be and as expressly agreed between you and your users, (c) Delete all user data obtained through or in connection with Bot Platform upon the cessation of your TPA's operations therein, except for data that users have expressly agreed can be retained, which may be kept until such agreement remains in effect, (d) Delete all user data obtained through or in connection with Bot Platform in response to a lawful request from an authorized legal entity, "
Use data4.3. Data Scraping of its Bot Developer Terms: "You agree not to use your TPA to collect, store, aggregate or process data beyond what is essential for the operation of your services. Always prohibited uses include any form of data collection aimed at creating large datasets, machine learning models and AI products, such as scraping public group or channel contents."
Plan
Pay$0
Rate limit
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendchat_id
MethodGET
Path/bot<token>/getChat
About the plan
PlanFree
Who can get itanyone who registers a bot with @BotFather
The 26 fields the plan's answer can hold

Telegram ID, type, name, username, active usernames, profile picture, bio, invite link, pinned message, linked chat ID, accent color ID, max reaction count, available reactions, background custom emoji ID, profile accent color ID, profile background custom emoji ID, emoji status custom emoji ID, emoji status expiration date, accepted gift types, can send paid media, message auto-delete time, has protected content, paid message star count, unique gift colors, community, success

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