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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
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 telegram.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; 10 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
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 - 02
Home | Viber
cross-platform instant messaging voice-over-Internet Protocol application for smartphones
Very close - 03
Messenger
Hang out anytime, anywhere—Messenger makes it easy and fun to stay close to your favorite people
Very close - 04
Signal >> Home
Say "hello" to a different messaging experience. An unexpected focus on privacy, combined with all of the features you expect.
Very close - 05
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 - 06
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 - 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
MAX — быстрое и легкое приложение для общения и решения повседневных задач
MAX позволяет отправлять любые виды сообщений и звонить даже на слабых устройствах и при низкой скорости интернета.
Very close - 09
Threema – Secure Communication For Individuals and Companies
The secure instant messenger from Switzerland. GDPR-compliant messaging for individuals and organizations that value privacy, security and data protection.
Very close - 10
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 - 11
ایتا — خانواده، ارتباط، دانایی
پیامرسان ایتا — به جمع میلیونها کاربر بپیوندید.
Very close - 12
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 - 13 Wire wire.com
instant messaging client
Very close - 14
TeamSpeak
TeamSpeak — the trusted voice communication platform for gaming, business, and communities. Crystal-clear audio, military-grade security, and cross-platform support.
Very close - 15
BAND – The App For Groups
Where Leaders Communicate Better
Very close - 16
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 - 17
Ably | Realtime platform for chat, AI and live apps at scale
Ably is the realtime platform built for scale and reliability. Power live chat, messaging, collaborative apps, and AI experiences that never drop.
Very close - 18
Infobip - Build meaningful customer relationships across any communication channel
Engage your customers and prospects with simple drag and drop email, SMS, chatbot or build custom solutions with the best in class APIs
Very close - 19
Respond.io | AI-Powered Customer Conversation Platform
Trusted by 10,000+ B2C businesses to scale customer chats, calls & campaigns. Unify WhatsApp, TikTok, Instagram & Facebook in a team inbox with AI Agents on respond.io
Very close - 20
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
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
- 32 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-d2.googledomains.com
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console · not on telegram.me 17/20
- Google Workspace · not on telegram.me 10/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on telegram.me 8/20
- Google Tag Manager · not on telegram.me 8/20
- Atlassian · not on telegram.me 7/20
- Cloudflare · not on telegram.me 7/20
- HubSpot · not on telegram.me 6/20
- OneTrust · not on telegram.me 6/20
- Stripe · not on telegram.me 6/20
- Zendesk · not on telegram.me 6/20
- Google Fonts · not on telegram.me 5/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on telegram.me 5/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on telegram.me 5/20
- Apple Business · not on telegram.me 5/20
- OpenAI · not on telegram.me 5/20
- nginx 4/20