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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
WhatsApp

Measured from Telegram’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.

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01 · 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.

No ad trackersRegistered in the EUFree plan

2 of the 60 sites closest to Telegram match.

  1. 01
    Slack slack.com Top 1K English EU-registeredFree plan 1 tracker

    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.

    Compare Slack with Telegram →
  2. 02
    Ably ably.com English Free plan 2 trackers

    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.

    Compare Ably with Telegram →

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 and search numbers · 3 technologies
Neighbours
k = 60
Sites searched
9,212
Vector
384-d
Query
60 ms

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CSS & UI
  • Bootstrap asset https://telegram.org/css/bootstrap.min.css?3
Web servers
  • nginx header server: nginx/1.30.1
DNS hosting