Telegram paid reactions: how Star reactions work
4.87% of 9,008,552 recent posts by 86,682 active Telegram channels carried paid Star reactions in October 2026. The median such post had 2 Stars, and 42.1% had exactly one.
What are paid reactions on Telegram?
Paid reactions, also called Star reactions, launched in August 2024. A reader sends Stars instead of an emoji, the channel receives 100% of them, and every post shows a leaderboard of top senders, which readers can opt out of. Since February 2025 channels can also react with Stars as the channel. The Star counter under a post is public, which makes paid reactions the one Telegram payment anyone can measure.
How to enable paid reactions in Telegram
- Open the channel and tap its name to open Channel Info.
- Go to Edit → Reactions.
- Turn on paid reactions. Ordinary reactions can stay on.
- Check the balance in Statistics → Monetization. Stars can be withdrawn from 1,000 after a hold of up to 21 days.
How many Stars does a Telegram post get?
| Stars on the post | Posts | Share of posts | Share of all Stars |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 184,971 | 42.1% | 0.7% |
| 2–5 | 139,592 | 31.8% | 1.5% |
| 6–10 | 40,398 | 9.2% | 1.1% |
| 11–50 | 48,819 | 11.1% | 3.9% |
| 51–100 | 11,003 | 2.5% | 2.8% |
| 101–500 | 10,560 | 2.4% | 7.4% |
| 501–1,000 | 1,690 | 0.4% | 4.3% |
| Over 1,000 | 1,868 | 0.4% | 78.4% |
Two shapes overlap. Most posts receive a handful of Stars from regular readers: 73.9% got five or fewer. A tiny group of posts receives thousands in one go: posts above 1,000 Stars are 0.4% of posts with Star reactions but carry 78.4% of the Stars. The 90th percentile post has 21 Stars; the largest has 1,200,000.
Telegram star reaction price
A sender pays at least one Star per reaction. Readers who buy Stars in the apps pay about $0.02 a Star, so a single tap costs a couple of cents, while the channel can withdraw $0.013 for it. Telegram’s client configuration sets the maximum for paid reactions at 10,000 Stars.
The biggest Star reactions in our snapshot
| Channel | Posted | Stars | ≈ USD | Post views | Channel subscribers |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Best Premium Emoji | Премиум Эмодзи | November 26, 2025 | 1,200,000 | $15,600 | 2,080,000 | 1,080,000 |
| Best Premium Emoji | Премиум Эмодзи | November 24, 2025 | 1,000,000 | $13,000 | 2,000,000 | 1,080,000 |
| Best Premium Emoji | Премиум Эмодзи | November 22, 2025 | 500,000 | $6,500 | 1,970,000 | 1,080,000 |
| Pubg Gamer | April 29, 2025 | 428,000 | $5,564 | 619,000 | 102,000 |
| Pubg Gamer | April 29, 2025 | 422,000 | $5,486 | 475,000 | 102,000 |
| Pubg Gamer | April 29, 2025 | 376,000 | $4,888 | 349,000 | 102,000 |
| Pubg Gamer | April 29, 2025 | 371,000 | $4,823 | 235,000 | 102,000 |
| Pavel Durov | August 14, 2025 | 365,000 | $4,745 | 6,640,000 | 10,200,000 |
| Pavel Durov | October 9, 2025 | 345,000 | $4,485 | 11,300,000 | 10,200,000 |
| Pubg Gamer | March 5, 2025 | 303,000 | $3,939 | 211,000 | 102,000 |
| Pubg Gamer | March 5, 2025 | 297,000 | $3,861 | 221,000 | 102,000 |
| Pubg Gamer | December 14, 2024 | 235,000 | $3,055 | 195,000 | 102,000 |
| • 𝐂𝒐𝒇𝒇𝒆𝒆 • 𝗧َ𝐢𝘁𝗮𝐧𝐢𝐜 𖤹 | December 19, 2025 | 221,000 | $2,873 | 12,200 | 15,100 |
| TON by @korova | May 8, 2026 | 201,000 | $2,613 | 11,100 | 32,300 |
| Best Premium Emoji | Премиум Эмодзи | November 20, 2025 | 200,000 | $2,600 | 1,930,000 | 1,080,000 |
| • 𝐂𝒐𝒇𝒇𝒆𝒆 • 𝗧َ𝐢𝘁𝗮𝐧𝐢𝐜 𖤹 | September 23, 2025 | 200,000 | $2,600 | 11,700 | 15,100 |
| MLBB Gamer | March 14, 2026 | 195,000 | $2,535 | 131,000 | 104,000 |
| MLBB Gamer | March 14, 2026 | 171,000 | $2,223 | 104,000 | 104,000 |
| MLBB Gamer | March 14, 2026 | 159,000 | $2,067 | 90,500 | 104,000 |
| Pavel Durov | September 18, 2025 | 153,000 | $1,989 | 8,240,000 | 10,200,000 |
Several rows can come from the same channel. Stars on old posts can arrive long after publication.
Do paid reactions follow views?
Somewhat. Within a channel, posts with Star reactions sat at the 55th percentile of views on average, above the middle, and 70.9% of channels had their Star posts above their median. Per view, Stars are rare: the median receiving channel gets 0.02 Stars per 1,000 views, so a post needs tens of thousands of views to earn its first Star on average. See which channels earn the most Stars.
Sources: Telegram blog “Super Channels, Star Reactions and Subscriptions”, August 14, 2024; Telegram “The Evolution of Telegram” update timeline; 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.
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Frequently asked questions
What are paid reactions on Telegram?
Reactions that cost Stars. A reader taps the Star reaction under a channel post and chooses how many Stars to send; the channel receives them and the post shows the top senders.
How do I enable paid reactions on Telegram?
Open your channel, go to Channel Settings → Reactions and turn on paid reactions. They work in channels; readers need a Stars balance to send them.
How much does a Telegram Star reaction cost?
At least one Star, which costs a buyer about $0.014 on Fragment or about $0.02 in the apps. The channel receives $0.013 per Star when it withdraws.
Does Telegram pay for reactions?
Only for paid ones. Ordinary emoji reactions earn nothing; Star reactions pass 100% of the Stars to the channel.
Find channels to compare
The tables above are a fixed snapshot. To look at live channels, continue in semantic channel search: try star reactions telegram, telegram reactions channel or telegram paid reactions. Before paying for a placement, check a channel’s real audience with the channel audit and its sellers with the network checker.
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.
A post’s Star count is the paid-reaction counter on the public web version of the channel at collection time; Stars added after collection are not included. Older posts had longer to collect Stars.
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.