7 TGStat Alternatives (2026): Free & Paid Tools Compared

TGStat is a Telegram analytics platform. It tracks public channels and chats, reports subscriber counts, reach and engagement, keeps a searchable catalog of rooms by topic and language, indexes public posts by keyword, and shows each channel's advertising activity. That is the product, and it is genuinely good at it.

Which is why TGStat alternative is two different searches wearing one phrase. If you want the same thing done — measure channels, price a placement, browse a catalog — the honest answer is Telemetr and the wider analytics field, and both are covered below. If you came looking for customers, the answer is not another dashboard, because aggregate channel metrics never name a person who wants to buy.

Leadgram covers that second need. It reads what people write in public Telegram conversations, scores each person 0-100 by buying intent, and hands back the match reason plus the message that earned the score. No Telegram account needed: you sign in to Leadgram free with email or Google and search from the browser.

Four reasons come up again and again, and only one of them is really a complaint about TGStat.

Cost at the tier you actually need. The surface view is enough to eyeball a channel, but the filters, exports and depth most teams want sit on a paid plan, and the price steps up with seats and API access. On TGStat's own price list (checked 23 September 2026), Premium Analytics is 3,360₽ a month, Premium Search 2,940₽ and keyword monitoring 1,050₽, with up to 15% off for a year paid upfront.

Coverage. No index covers every public room, and the further you get from Russian-language Telegram the more gaps you notice. Ukrainian, English and regional communities are thinner ground.

Account friction. Some teams will not attach a personal Telegram account to a research tool at all. They want something that works from an ordinary web sign-in.

The wrong kind of tool entirely. This is the big one. You did not want a chart, you wanted the name of somebody who needs what you sell this week. Analytics cannot produce that, because it aggregates people into audiences and a buyer is one individual with one sentence.

Telemetr (telemetr.me) is the other big Russian-language channel analytics service. It overlaps with TGStat on statistics but goes deeper into advertising: which paid posts a channel ran and how its subscriber curve moved afterwards.

Price, checked 23 Sep 2026: the Economy plan is 2,750₽ a month on Telemetr's help pages, with a one-time 1₽ first month that renews automatically. Cancel the renewal and the account drops to a limited Demo plan.

Best for: media buyers vetting a channel before paying for a post.

Telega.in is a native-ad platform for Telegram and MAX (VK's Russian messenger). You pick channels from its catalog — with geo filters for local audiences — see benchmarks such as CPM and reach by topic, and let it run the campaign.

Price: you pay for the placements you buy; check current terms on telega.in before you plan a budget.

Best for: advertisers who want placements handled end to end rather than researched by hand.

LiveDune runs a dedicated Telegram statistics service for channels and groups inside a wider social media analytics suite. If you already report on other networks, it keeps Telegram in the same dashboard. It also publishes public Telegram channel ratings.

Price, checked 23 Sep 2026: a free 7-day trial, then paid Blogger, Business and Agency plans; check livedune.com for the current rate.

Best for: agencies and brand teams that report across several networks.

Leadgram does not count subscribers. It reads public Telegram chats 24/7 and returns people whose messages match what you sell — each with a 0-100 score, a one-line reason and a link to the source message.

Price, checked 23 Sep 2026: free plan with 50 ranked leads a month and no card; Individual $19 a month; Teams $19 per seat. No Telegram account needed to search.

Best for: sales teams, founders and agencies who opened TGStat looking for clients.

This is what Leadgram was built for, and it starts from different raw material. Instead of counting a channel's subscribers, it reads the messages inside public rooms and asks one question: did this person just describe a problem you solve?

You type what you are after in plain language — need someone to run Telegram ads for our skincare launch, looking for an agency to grow our channel before Black Friday — and get ranked people back. Each result carries a 0-100 intent score, a one-line reason for that score, the group it came from, and the message itself, so you can judge a lead before you ever write to them.

After that it stops being a search box. Qualified leads move onto a CRM pipeline board, a unified inbox holds the conversation, campaigns handle follow-up, saved searches re-run so fresh signal keeps arriving, and you can point the crawler at your own group sources instead of accepting someone else's list. CSV export is there whenever you want the leads somewhere else.

You can start on the free plan — 50 ranked leads a month, no card — and the paid tiers are on the pricing page. You sign in free with email or Google; no Telegram account needed to search.

The ceiling is the same for TGStat, Telemetr, Leadgram and everything else on the list, because Telegram sets it, not the vendor.

Private groups stay private. If a room needs an invite, no third-party service can read it from the outside — only its members can. Anything advertising visibility into closed chats you have not joined is either wrong or asking you to hand over your own account and carry the ban risk.

Telegram does not hand out contacts. It does not share phone numbers or emails. You only see contacts a person chose to post publicly, so no tool can sell you a verified email list pulled out of chats. What you get is a public handle plus enough context to write a message worth answering.

Deleted and edited messages disappear. Every index is a snapshot; a person can remove the message that got them ranked, and a channel can hide its history.

Coverage is never complete. Catalog or conversation, every index samples public Telegram rather than containing it. That is exactly why Leadgram lets you add your own group sources instead of pretending its list is exhaustive.

A tool that is upfront about these limits is one you can put in front of a legal team. One that promises to get around them is not.