How much money can you make on Telegram?
Most Telegram channels make little from Telegram itself. In October 2026 the median active channel that received Stars collected 6 Stars a month, about $0.08; the top 1% of 86,682 channels took 91.6% of all Stars, worth $353,719 at the payout rate.
How much money can you make on Telegram from Stars?
Among 24,437 channels that received at least one Star in their last 100 posts, monthly Star income is small for most and very large for a few. The table shows the distribution at each channel’s own posting pace.
| Channels below this line | Stars per month | ≈ USD per month |
|---|---|---|
| 25% | 1 | $0.019 |
| Median | 6 | $0.082 |
| 75% | 30 | $0.40 |
| 90% | 133 | $1.73 |
| 99% | 2,197 | $28.56 |
A channel at the 90th percentile collects 133 Stars a month, about $1.73. Only at the 99th percentile does Star income reach $28.56 a month. Ten channels collected 56.8% of every Star we counted.
How much does a Telegram channel earn by size?
| Subscribers | Channels | Receive Stars | Median ≈ USD per month | Top 10% earn more than | Ad posts per month, median |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Under 10K | 3,305 | 19% | $0.03 | $0.43 | 0 |
| 10K–50K | 64,856 | 26.8% | $0.06 | $1 | 1 |
| 50K–100K | 10,296 | 31.7% | $0.16 | $2.31 | 1 |
| 100K–500K | 7,340 | 37.6% | $0.35 | $6.55 | 2 |
| 500K–1M | 513 | 48.9% | $0.79 | $23.50 | 3 |
| 1M+ | 372 | 49.2% | $1.23 | $20.10 | 3 |
Ad posts per month count posts labelled as ads (erid, #ad, #реклама and similar) among channels that label ads; unlabelled ads are not counted.
Star income grows with size, but not in proportion to it: a channel with more than a million subscribers has about a hundred times the audience of a 10,000-subscriber channel and a median Star income $1.23 against $0.06. For large channels, advertising is the larger business; see Telegram ad revenue sharing.
Telegram channels that earn the most
| Channel | Subscribers | Stars | ≈ USD |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pavel Durov | 10,200,000 | 3,864,470 | $50,238 |
| Best Premium Emoji | Премиум Эмодзи | 1,080,000 | 3,260,964 | $42,393 |
| Pubg Gamer | 102,000 | 3,187,900 | $41,443 |
| Записки Профессора | 294,000 | 1,648,687 | $21,433 |
| MLBB Gamer | 104,000 | 1,322,713 | $17,195 |
| • 𝐂𝒐𝒇𝒇𝒆𝒆 • 𝗧َ𝐢𝘁𝗮𝐧𝐢𝐜 𖤹 | 15,100 | 638,205 | $8,297 |
| TON by @korova | 32,300 | 351,533 | $4,570 |
| BLACK SHOP 🐙 | 24,500 | 256,843 | $3,339 |
| it.com Domains | 21,600 | 224,643 | $2,920 |
| FindMini.app — TG Mini Apps | 53,300 | 155,184 | $2,017 |
1,153 channels in the filtered list passed the 1,000-Star withdrawal minimum within their last 100 posts, 197 passed 10,000 Stars and 16 passed 100,000. See all of them in Telegram channels that make money.
To estimate what advertising could bring, enter your own price and sold posts in the Telegram channel earning checker, and check the views a buyer can expect with the channel audit.
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Frequently asked questions
How much money can you make on Telegram?
From Stars alone, little for most channels: the median channel that receives Stars collects about $0.08 a month, and 90% collect under $1.73. Channels that earn more usually sell advertising directly, which public data cannot price.
How much does a Telegram channel with 10,000 subscribers earn?
In our data a channel with 10,000–50,000 subscribers that receives Stars collects a median of $0.06 a month from them. Ad income depends on the price per post and how many posts sell; use the earning checker to model it with your own numbers.
How much does a Telegram channel with 1 million subscribers make?
Channels above one million subscribers that receive Stars collect a median of $1.23 a month from them, with the top tenth above $20.10. Their main income is typically advertising and the owner’s own products.
How much do Telegram channels earn from ads?
Telegram does not publish channel earnings, and direct ad deals are private. Owners see Telegram’s ad revenue in Statistics → Monetization. To estimate direct ad income, multiply the price per post by the number of posts that sell each month.
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Sources and method
We read the last 100 public posts of 107,721 Telegram channels with at least 1,000 subscribers, collected from the web version of each channel between October 26, 2026 and October 28, 2026. 86,682 of them posted within 30 days of collection and form the base of every share on this page. The window covers 9,008,552 posts; for the median channel it spans 54 days. Channels with fewer than 20 posts are left out.
Star reactions are the paid reactions shown under each post: the counter is the number of Stars readers sent, and Telegram credits those Stars to the channel. Dollar values use the creator payout rate of $0.013 per Star; they are estimates of the Stars’ payout value, not of anyone’s bank balance. Links are classified by domain and by Telegram link type (bots, mini apps, invite links, gift and boost links). Ad markers are text labels such as erid, #ad or #реклама; unlabelled ads are not counted. Topic and language are neural-network labels from our channel index; channel creation periods come from the numeric channel ID and are intervals, not dates.
Monthly Stars divide a channel’s Stars on its last 100 posts by the number of days those posts cover and multiply by 30.4. Stars can be added to a post after it is published, so a slow-posting channel’s monthly figure includes Stars that older posts collected over time.
Telegram rules and prices were checked on October 28, 2026: Telegram client configuration reference (core.telegram.org/api/config): stars_usd_withdraw_rate_x1000 = 1300, stars_usd_sell_rate_x1000 = 1410 and the Star limits; Telegram Content Creator Rewards terms (telegram.org/tos/content-creator-rewards); Telegram Terms of Service for Bot Developers (telegram.org/tos/bot-developers), section 6.2. We measure what public posts show. Private channels, deleted posts, Telegram’s own ad revenue, paid media inside unopened posts and private deals are not visible to us. All numbers are baked into this page from one snapshot; nothing is fetched when you open it.