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Telegram
Fast. Secure. Powerful.
Where it stands
3.8 / 5
Signals score
Not a hands-on test
Based on 2 of 3 signals
- Website health4.2 / 5 · weight 50%
Measured from the tool's public website
- Community3.9 / 5 · weight 20%
What people said in public discussions
Built only from what we can measure or quote without using the tool. How ranking works
Rank by signals
We have not run our own hands-on test on Telegram yet. How tests work
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Measured signals
4.2 / 5 · measured 2026-11-08Read automatically from Telegram's public website: how reliable, secure, private and open the site is. This is not a test of how well the tool does its job. How this is measured
- Reliability5 / 5The page answered and finished downloading in 352 ms.
- Security3.5 / 52 of 5 protective headers set (strict-transport-security, x-frame-options).
- Privacy5 / 5No third-party tracking services found on the page.
- Transparency3 / 5Links a privacy policy; no pricing page linked.
Community feedback
3.9 / 5 · 34 commenters82% of the 34 people whose comments we could classify were positive. Read automatically from public Hacker News threads about Telegram; the classifier is simple and can misread sarcasm, so check the threads. How this works
- Positive
“> For all intents and purposes, Telegram is more similar to apps like Discord or Slack, seeing how most of the comms can be read by anyone who has access to the server. This is absolutely true and a nice comparison at…”
Read in the thread - Positive
“> Telegram is decentralized. Great. > Telegram servers are spread worldwide for security and speed. So this is what they mean by decentralized. > As a result, Telegram is the fastest and most secure messaging system in…”
Read in the thread - Critical
“Most of the concerns people had were Telegram's servers acting maliciously or being coerced into acting maliciously, which is obviously not covered by this contest or the protocol they have designed. It's a bit…”
Read in the thread - Critical
“It looks like TextSecure encrypts your actual texts, for which you still pay, while Telegram also takes care of delivery, for free, and does it faster and better than SMS (which should be pretty darn easy, what with SMS…”
Read in the thread
Threads: Telegram Ad Platform (2021, 245 comments) · Telegram - secure, free messaging (2013, 219 comments) · $200,000 to the first person to break Telegram (2013, 162 comments) · Telegram: 200M Monthly Active Users (2018, 145 comments)
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