A monthly active user is someone who used Telegram during the reporting month. It does not mean that every person uses the app every day, and it should not be added to download or account totals.

How Fast Has Telegram Grown?

Confirmed milestones show how the platform expanded over nine years.

Approximate audience growth from 2016 to 2025

about 10×

Published Mar. 19, 2025

User growth

Telegram's reported audience grew about 10×

The chart connects confirmed platform milestones. It does not estimate the months between them.

Monthly active-user milestones100M+ to 1B+

Siteefy Research · 2026

Telegram's reported monthly audience grew about 10× based on its published milestone thresholds from 2016 to 2025, rising from more than 100 million to more than 1 billion.

200 million monthly users in March 2018.
400 million monthly users in April 2020.
700 million monthly users in June 2022.
900 million monthly users in April 2024.

Why the chart shows milestones

Telegram publishes audience milestones when they are reached, not as a regular monthly series. The line therefore connects confirmed checkpoints rather than estimating the months between them.

How Large Is Telegram's Channel Audience?

Public channels turn Telegram into a large publishing and creator platform.

Monthly public-channel views

1 trillion

Current platform statement, reviewed July 20, 2026

Public channels

One trillion views flow through channels each month

Channel views are viewing events, not unique people or private messages.

Monthly public-channel views

1 trillion

Ten blocks represent the full 1 trillion monthly views

Share of Telegram Ads revenue

Siteefy Research · 2026

Telegram users generate 1 trillion views in public broadcast channels each month.

The number covers views in public broadcast channels, not all private messages, groups, or calls.
Telegram gives channel owners 50% of the revenue from ads shown in their channels.
One person can create many channel views, so views should not be read as unique people.

What this says about Telegram

Telegram is more than a private messaging app. Public channels give publishers, businesses, and creators a large distribution layer inside the same platform.

How Many People Use Telegram Mini Apps?

Hundreds of millions of people use services, games, and commerce inside Telegram.

Monthly Mini App users

500 million

Published June 30, 2024

Mini App ecosystem

Mini Apps reached 500 million monthly users

The two audience figures come from different reporting dates and are shown only as a scale comparison.

Telegram monthly users

March 2025

1 billion

Telegram Mini App users

June 2024

500 million

Siteefy Research · 2026

More than 500 million Telegram users interacted with Mini Apps each month by June 2024.

Mini Apps can support shopping, services, games, payments, and other experiences inside Telegram.
The figure counts people who interacted with Mini Apps during a month, not the number of Mini Apps available.
It is a June 2024 milestone and should not be treated as a live 2026 count.

Why this number matters

The figure shows that a large part of Telegram's audience uses the platform for more than messaging and channels.

How Many People Pay for Telegram Premium?

Paid subscriptions are growing within Telegram's much larger free audience.

Telegram Premium subscribers

15 million+

Published May 27, 2025

Paid subscriptions

Premium passed 15 million and doubled in one year

The latest total and the one-year growth statement come from Telegram's May 2025 update.

Premium subscribers

15 million+

May 2025

Growth reported by Telegram

2×

In one year, as of May 2025

Earlier public checkpoint

10 million+September 2024

Siteefy Research · 2026

Telegram Premium reached 15 million+ paid subscribers in May 2025.

Telegram had reported 10 million+ Premium subscribers in September 2024.
Telegram said its Premium subscriber count had grown 2× in the year leading up to the May 2025 update.
Premium subscribers are included within Telegram's wider monthly active user count.

What the milestone shows

Paid subscriptions are still a small part of Telegram's total audience, but the public milestones show steady growth in the platform's direct user revenue.

Sources

10 first-party source checks

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Section	Source	Date	Scope note
01Current audience and engagement	Pavel Durov: Telegram audience and engagement update	Published Mar. 19, 2025	Monthly active users, average daily opens, and average daily time.
022016 audience milestone	Telegram: 100,000,000 Monthly Active Users	Published Feb. 23, 2016	Telegram's first public 100 million monthly-user milestone.
032018 audience milestone	Telegram: 200,000,000 Monthly Active Users	Published Mar. 22, 2018	Dated 200 million monthly-user milestone.
042020 audience milestone	Telegram: 400 Million Users	Published Apr. 24, 2020	Dated 400 million monthly-user milestone.
052022 audience milestone	Telegram: 700 Million Users and Telegram Premium	Published June 19, 2022	Dated 700 million monthly-user milestone.
062024 audience milestone	Telegram: My Profile, Recommended Channels and 15 More Features	Published Apr. 25, 2024	Dated 900 million monthly-user milestone.
07Public channels and ads	Telegram Ads	Current platform statement, reviewed July 20, 2026	Current public-channel views and channel-owner revenue share.
08Mini Apps	Telegram: Mini App Bar, Paid Media, Story Search & More	Published June 30, 2024	Monthly users who interacted with Telegram Mini Apps.
09Premium, 10 million	Telegram: Star Giveaways and More	Published Sept. 6, 2024	First-party Premium subscriber milestone.
10Premium, 15 million	Pavel Durov: Telegram Premium subscriber update	Published May 27, 2025	Latest verified Premium subscriber milestone used on this page.

Methodology

5 checks, manually reviewed

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01 - What we count

This page separates monthly users, daily engagement, public-channel views, Mini App users, and Premium subscribers. These measures answer different questions and are not added together.

02 - Where the numbers come from

Every figure comes from Telegram's official platform pages, company blog, or a dated public update from its founder. The Sources section links each claim to its original statement.

03 - How the approximate 10× figure is made

The growth benchmark compares Telegram's published milestones of more than 100 million monthly users in February 2016 and more than 1 billion in March 2025. It shows the approximate scale of growth, not an exact rate.

04 - How dates are handled

Each number keeps the date when Telegram reported it. Older milestones remain historical facts and are not presented as current 2026 values.

05 - How the page is maintained

A person reviews Telegram's official updates and changes the page only when a newer figure uses a clear, comparable definition. This page does not claim to update itself.