Telegram Stars to USD: how much your Stars are worth

Telegram Stars are the currency for everything digital inside Telegram — paid posts, channel subscriptions, courses, gifts, files sold by bots. Almost every guide quotes one price for a Star. Telegram publishes three, and this page shows all of them with their sources.

Three published figures

What a creator receives: $0.013 per Star. Telegram’s terms for bot developers (section 6.2.4) state that a developer can receive an equivalent of 0.013 USD worth of rewards for each Star; the client configuration says the same as stars_usd_withdraw_rate_x1000 = 1300 — $13.00 per 1,000 Stars; and every “Developer Proceeds” cell in Telegram’s pricing table is that rate applied to the pack. This is the number to price with.

What a store pack costs. On iOS and Android, Stars are bought as packs through the App Store or Play Store, and Telegram publishes a table of those packs on its Bot Payments page: the price, the 30% that goes to Apple or Google, a line it calls Telegram administrative costs, and what the developer receives. The whole table is below. Telegram’s own caption calls it an estimate for a purchase billed in USD with 0% VAT; local taxes and the payment provider’s fees come on top.

What Telegram’s own rate makes it: $14.10 per 1,000 Stars. The client configuration carries stars_usd_sell_rate_x1000 = 1410, which Telegram’s API documentation describes as the price in US dollars of 1,000 Stars; the same page lists buying via Fragment as the alternative to a store purchase. Against the payout rate that is a difference of $1.10 per 1,000, about 7.8%. Telegram publishes no breakdown of it, and nothing is deducted at withdrawal: the terms say the payout value is set by Telegram independently of what Stars cost to buy.

If you want the whole mechanism rather than the arithmetic, what Telegram Stars are and how they work covers it.

Telegram’s Star Pricing table

Pack	App Store / Play Store	Apple / Google, 30%	Telegram administrative costs	Creator receives	At Telegram’s rate
50★	$0.99	$0.30	$0.04	$0.65	$0.71
75★	$1.49	$0.45	$0.07	$0.98	$1.06
100★	$1.99	$0.60	$0.09	$1.30	$1.41
150★	$2.99	$0.90	$0.14	$1.95	$2.12
250★	$4.99	$1.50	$0.24	$3.25	$3.53
350★	$6.99	$2.10	$0.34	$4.55	$4.94
500★	$9.99	$3.00	$0.49	$6.50	$7.05
750★	$14.99	$4.50	$0.74	$9.75	$10.58
1,000★	$19.99	$6.00	$0.99	$13.00	$14.10
1,500★	$29.99	$9.00	$1.49	$19.50	$21.15
2,500★	$49.99	$15.00	$2.49	$32.50	$35.25

The first five columns are Telegram’s table as published; the last is the same pack at stars_usd_sell_rate_x1000, rounded to the cent the way Telegram’s own table rounds (75★ pays $0.975, printed as $0.98).

Larger amounts

Telegram’s table stops at the 2,500-Star pack, so for bigger amounts here are the two figures that apply to any number: what a creator receives at $0.013 a Star, and what the same Stars come to at Telegram’s own rate.

Stars	Creator receives	At Telegram’s rate
5,000★	$65.00	$70.50
10,000★	$130.00	$141.00
25,000★	$325.00	$352.50
50,000★	$650.00	$705.00
100,000★	$1,300.00	$1,410.00

What the floor and the hold actually mean

Two limits decide when money becomes money, and both are published as Telegram client-config parameters rather than in any announcement, which is why they rarely make it into articles.

The floor is 1,000 Stars. A balance below that cannot be withdrawn at all. At the payout rate that is thirteen dollars — so a channel with a handful of small sales is holding value it cannot move yet.

The hold is up to 21 days, counted from when each payment arrives, not from when you ask. The clock runs per payment. A channel earning steadily always has a rolling slice of its balance that has not aged enough, which is why “withdraw on the first of the month” quietly leaves the last three weeks behind. The calendar version of this, with a worked example, is in how to withdraw Telegram Stars.

The payout itself arrives through Fragment as cryptocurrency, to a TON wallet — not to a bank account. Fragment’s terms leave the choice of coin to Fragment and convert the USD amount at the CoinMarketCap rate for Gram, the coin formerly listed as Toncoin, refreshed about every five minutes. Getting from there to a local currency is a separate step with its own fees, and Telegram’s terms note that Fragment may be unavailable in some countries.

About the local currency amounts

Every published figure is quoted in USD, so every other currency in the selector is a conversion at a stored exchange rate, dated under the results. That is enough to answer “roughly how much is this”, and not enough to quote a customer. Two things move underneath it: the exchange rate itself, and the store price in your own country, which Telegram’s table gives for a USD purchase with 0% VAT — tax and the payment provider can move it.

What to do with the payout number

Price with it. If a guide sells for 500 Stars, the revenue line is $6.50 — not the $9.99 the buyer saw in a store, and not the $7.05 at Telegram’s rate. A projection built on the store price is about 35% high; one built on Telegram’s rate, 7.8% high; and either error compounds quietly across a catalogue.

Then decide whether you want dollars at all. Earned Stars spent on Telegram Ads for your own bot or channel are credited at $0.02 per Star under section 6.2.3 of the same terms — more than either buy rate. Withdrawing is the only route that pays the $0.013.

And if the products themselves are the missing piece: paid subscriptions, single paywalled posts and donation goals all run on this balance, and monetizing a Telegram channel is where that setup lives. Digital goods are Stars-only under Telegram’s rules — cards are not an option for them, whatever a competitor’s pricing page implies.

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Sources, checked 9 September 2026: Telegram’s terms for bot developers, sections 6.2.4 (the $0.013 reward rate and the 21-day hold) and 6.2.3 (the $0.02 ad credit); Telegram’s client configuration reference for stars_usd_withdraw_rate_x1000 = 1300, stars_usd_sell_rate_x1000 = 1410 and the 1,000-Star withdrawal minimum; the Star Pricing table on Telegram’s Bot Payments page for the store packs; Fragment’s terms of service, section 6, for how the payout is converted. Exchange rates are a dated snapshot, shown with the result.