t.me
Telegram
Who runs Telegram, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest instant messaging alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- Messenger
Measured from Telegram’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit Telegram01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs Telegram
Telegram t.me
Fast. Secure. Powerful.
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
02 · Privacy
What Telegram tracks
What the homepage loads before you accept or decline cookies. A cookie banner should hold most of it back until you agree, and a tag manager can load more that we don’t see.
trackers that follow visitors
None of the 19 alternatives below has fewer; 11 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- None found
We found no trackers, ad pixels or third-party embeds on Telegram’s homepage.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to Telegram
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Telegram, thumbs down if it isn’t.
- 01
Messenger
Hang out anytime, anywhere—Messenger makes it easy and fun to stay close to your favorite people
Very close - 02
Home | Viber
cross-platform instant messaging voice-over-Internet Protocol application for smartphones
Very close - 03
WhatsApp | Secure and Reliable Free Private Messaging and Calling
Use WhatsApp Messenger to stay in touch with friends and family. WhatsApp is free and offers simple, secure, reliable messaging and calling, available on phones all over the world.
Very close - 04
GroupMe | Group chat app
Group text messaging to every phone. The easy way to connect with all the groups in your life, big and small.
Very close - 05
Discord - Group Chat That’s All Fun & Games
Discord is great for playing games and chilling with friends, or even building a worldwide community. Customize your own space to talk, play, and hang out.
Very close - 06
Signal >> Home
Say "hello" to a different messaging experience. An unexpected focus on privacy, combined with all of the features you expect.
Very close - 07
LINE｜always at your side.
More than just a messenger app. LINE is new level of communication and the very infrastructure of your life.
Very close - 08
WeChat - Connects with over 1 billion users | Chats · Calls · Life Services
WeChat is a social communication app serving over 1 billion users, supporting free chat, HD voice and video calls, Moments, and mobile payments, making communication and life more convenient.
Very close - 09
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Very close - 10
Slack | AI Work Platform & Productivity Tools
Boost productivity and save time with Slack — the AI work platform for managing projects, automating workflows, and connecting teams securely. Start working smarter today.
Very close - 11
Customer Experience Platform | Airship
Airship is the only mobile-first customer experience platform that delivers measurable results through AI-powered, unified cross-channel experiences.
Very close - 12
Buffer: Social media management for everyone
Use Buffer to manage your social media so that you can create and share your content everywhere, consistently. Try our forever free plan or upgrade for more.
Very close - 13
Redefining the mobile experience for consumers
AI and Consumer-first technology to provide amazing experiences and the joy of discovery on your smart phone.
Very close - 14
Build, manage, & optimize real-time apps at scale | PubNub
Power your real-time app with PubNub - the world's largest pub/sub network. Scale to 3 trillion API calls/month, with <30ms global delivery. Start building now!
Very close - 15
Website
Very close - 16
Pinduoduo - Together, More Savings, More Fun
Pinduoduo - Together, More Savings, More Fun
Very close - 17
HubSpot | Software & Tools for your Business - Homepage
HubSpot's customer platform includes all the marketing, sales, customer service, and CRM software you need to grow your business.
Very close - 18
Home – Lycos
search engine and web portal
Very close - 19
Opera Web Browser | Faster, Safer, Smarter | Opera
Faster, safer and smarter than default browsers. Fully-featured for privacy, security, and so much more. Get the faster, better Opera browser for free.
Very close - 20
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Very close
Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles Telegram’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones Telegram uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the order.
04 · History
What changed
Price and policy history →No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Telegram adds, drops or rewrites shows up here.
05 · Details
How we measure
Alternatives are matched by what sites actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Trackers and the rest of the stack come from the homepage’s code and DNS records.
The full technology stack, the competitor map and search numbers · 3 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 20
- Sites searched
- 9,192
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 46 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to Telegram’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.
similarity × popularity
Built with
- CSS & UI
- Bootstrap asset https://telegram.org/css/bootstrap.min.css?3
- Web servers
- nginx header server: nginx/1.30.1
- DNS hosting
- Google Cloud DNS NS ns-cloud-b1.googledomains.com
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console · not on t.me 16/20
- Google Workspace · not on t.me 10/20
- Google Tag Manager · not on t.me 9/20
- Cloudflare · not on t.me 7/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on t.me 6/20
- Atlassian · not on t.me 6/20
- Stripe · not on t.me 6/20
- Zendesk · not on t.me 6/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on t.me 6/20
- HubSpot · not on t.me 5/20
- nginx 5/20
- OneTrust · not on t.me 5/20
- Adobe · not on t.me 5/20
- Meta Business Suite · not on t.me 5/20
- Apple Business · not on t.me 5/20
- OpenAI · not on t.me 5/20