Telegram Stars: the payout math

What a bot developer actually keeps per Star, and where the money goes before it reaches a wallet.

rates verified · Sep 2026 · editable below

Your product

Price per unit (Stars)

Units sold

Share of buyers paying in-app on mobile (iOS / Android): 70%

The rest buy Stars on desktop or via Fragment with TON. The 30% app-store cut only exists on the mobile path.

Buyer price in-app ($/Star)

Buyer price via Fragment ($/Star)

Creator payout rate ($/Star, Telegram's withdraw rate)

$133 to you, before cash-out costs

you keep 72%gone to stores / spread 28%

Stars sold

10,000

Buyers paid (blended)

$183.50

Net per unit

$1.33

After cash-out (~3%)

$129.01

Same unit, mobile buyer paid

$2.00

Same unit, Fragment buyer paid

$1.45

I want to net this much per unit (USD)

Price at, in Stars

Rounded to a clean number

Stars are integers. Price too low and the 1,000-Star withdrawal floor turns into a long wait.

The 30% is buyer-side. Telegram passes 100% of the Stars a buyer sends you. Apple/Google take their cut when the buyer buys Stars, not out of your Stars. Quote the payout rate, not the app-store rate, when you plan revenue.
1,000-Star floor. You cannot withdraw below 1,000 Stars (~$13). Small, irregular income can sit for weeks.
21-day hold, per payment. Stars become withdrawable 21 days after each receipt. A growing balance still has a rolling slice locked.
Payout is TON, not cash. Withdrawal runs through Fragment and pays out in TON/GRAM. You then sell on an exchange. Budget ~3% in spread and fees.
Only earned Stars withdraw. Stars you bought cannot be cashed out. Don't buy Stars to test the withdrawal flow.
Reinvesting into Telegram Ads zeroes the app-store cut. If you were going to buy ads anyway, spending earned Stars on promotion is the cheapest path.

Telegram's developer terms set the withdraw rate; third-party guides converge on ~$0.0133/Star, a 1,000-Star minimum and a 21-day hold.
· core.telegram.org · Stars payments
· grambase.ai · Stars guide 2026
· tribute.top · creator payouts
· adminhub.tools · withdrawal limits

Numbers move. Every field above is editable so you can plug in the rate you actually see in your own bot's My Stars tab.

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