AI Telegram Bot
Your Personal AI Agent on Telegram

Creating a Telegram AI bot involves three core steps. First, you create a bot via @BotFather in Telegram to get your unique bot token — this takes about two minutes and gives you the API credentials. Second, you set up a server (VPS or cloud instance) with an AI model like Claude, GPT, or Gemini connected to the Telegram Bot API via long polling or webhooks. Third, you configure the bot's capabilities: web search providers like Brave or Tavily, code execution sandboxing, file handling for PDFs and images, and persistent memory storage using SQLite or PostgreSQL. While the BotFather step is simple, building a production-grade AI bot with security hardening, error recovery, and real capabilities requires significant expertise. We handle the entire process professionally — you can learn more about our full approach on our how it works page.

BotFather (@BotFather) is Telegram's official meta-bot for creating and managing other bots. You start a conversation with BotFather, use the /newbot command, choose a display name and username (must end in "bot"), and receive a unique HTTP API token. This token is the key that lets your server send and receive messages through your bot. Beyond initial creation, BotFather controls your bot's profile picture, description text, about section, command menu (the list users see when they type /), inline mode settings, group privacy mode, and domain linking for web apps. We configure every BotFather setting optimally during setup: command menus organized by function, compelling description text for discoverability, proper inline mode configuration for cross-chat usage, and privacy mode settings tailored to your use case. The difference between a basic bot and a professional one starts right here — at the BotFather configuration level.

Your Telegram bot can use Claude (Anthropic — Opus 4, Sonnet 4, Haiku), GPT-4o and GPT-5 (OpenAI), Gemini 2.5 Pro and Flash (Google), Grok (xAI), DeepSeek V3 and R1, and local models via Ollama for zero-cost privacy. We configure intelligent hybrid routing where simple questions like weather lookups or translations go to faster, cheaper models like Gemini Flash, while complex coding tasks, long-form research, and nuanced analysis route to more capable models like Claude Opus or GPT-5. This approach optimizes both cost and quality automatically — most clients see 40-60% cost savings versus using a single premium model for everything. You can explore how our 267 specialized agents leverage different models for different tasks.

The Telegram Bot API is completely free — Telegram charges nothing for bot usage. Your ongoing costs come from two sources: server hosting and AI model API usage. For hosting, a VPS from Hetzner starts at $4/month (2 vCPUs, 4GB RAM — sufficient for most bots), DigitalOcean from $6/month, or you can use Oracle Cloud's free tier with 4 ARM CPUs and 24GB RAM at zero cost. AI model costs depend entirely on usage volume. Light personal use with Claude Sonnet typically costs $5-15/month in API fees. Moderate business automation with web search, code execution, and document analysis runs $30-80/month. Heavy multi-agent workflows with daily content pipelines, security scans, and development tasks cost $100-150/month. You can significantly reduce costs by routing simple queries to cheaper models (Gemini Flash at $0.075 per million tokens) and reserving expensive models for complex tasks. Check our pricing page for more details.

Yes. Your AI bot can be added to any Telegram group. We configure privacy mode settings so the bot only responds when mentioned (@yourbot) or when replying to its messages — it does not read every message in the group. For support channels, we can set it to respond to all messages. Group-specific system prompts and behavior rules are fully configurable. You can also explore our WhatsApp AI bot for similar group capabilities on WhatsApp.

Privacy mode controls what messages your bot can see in group chats. When enabled (default), the bot only receives messages that mention it or reply to it — it cannot read general group conversation. When disabled, the bot sees all messages. We recommend keeping privacy mode on for most use cases and only disabling it for dedicated support groups where the bot needs to respond to everything.

Inline mode lets you use your AI bot in any Telegram chat — not just conversations with the bot itself. You type @yourbot followed by a query in any chat, and the bot shows AI-generated results as suggestions you can send. Great for quick translations, lookups, content generation, or sharing AI answers with friends and colleagues without leaving the current conversation.

Yes. Your AI Telegram bot runs on your own server with full shell access. Send a coding task and it writes, executes, and returns the output — Python scripts, shell commands, Node.js code, database queries, and more. With our full agent setup, it can also write production code, run tests, create pull requests, and deploy applications autonomously. See how our Claude Code integration enables autonomous development workflows.

Yes. Your bot can generate images using DALL-E (OpenAI), Gemini Imagen (Google), or Stable Diffusion. Describe what you need in a Telegram message and the bot creates and sends the image directly to your chat. With the full agent setup, it can also create design assets, social media graphics, blog hero images, and brand materials.

Yes. Send any file to your Telegram bot — PDFs, Word documents, spreadsheets, images, code files, CSVs — and it analyzes the content, extracts key information, answers questions about the document, and generates summaries. It handles files up to Telegram's 50MB limit and can process multiple documents in sequence.

Your bot runs on your own dedicated server — not shared infrastructure. Conversations are processed on your machine and only sent to AI model providers (Anthropic, OpenAI) via their APIs when generating responses. With BYOK (Bring Your Own Key), you have direct relationships with providers. We configure SSH key-only authentication, firewalls, fail2ban, and encryption. For maximum privacy, use local models via Ollama — zero data leaves your server. Read more about our cybersecurity practices.

ChatGPT is a web app you visit. Our Telegram bot is a full AI agent running on your server 24/7. Key differences: (1) It executes code on your server, not in a sandbox. (2) It browses the real web with no restrictions. (3) It manages files on your machine. (4) It has persistent memory across all sessions. (5) It connects to your tools via MCP servers. (6) With the full setup, it orchestrates 267 specialized agents for complex multi-step tasks. ChatGPT is a conversation tool — this is an AI operating system.

Yes. We can deploy separate bots for different use cases — a personal assistant bot, a team development bot, a customer support bot, and a content creation bot — each with their own system prompts, capabilities, and AI model configurations. They can share the same server infrastructure or run independently.

Your bot needs a server running 24/7. We recommend Hetzner (from $4/month — best value), DigitalOcean (from $6/month), AWS Lightsail (from $5/month), or Oracle Cloud (free tier with 4 ARM CPUs and 24GB RAM). We can also deploy on your own hardware — Mac Mini, Linux PC, or any machine with SSH access. We handle all server setup, security hardening, and daemon configuration so your bot restarts automatically.

We configure your Telegram bot as a system service that automatically restarts on crash or reboot. For critical deployments, we set up health monitoring and alerting so you know immediately if something goes wrong. Telegram queues messages when your bot is offline and delivers them when it comes back — so you never lose messages.

Yes. Through MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers, your bot connects to GitHub, Gmail, Google Calendar, Stripe, databases, CRMs, and hundreds of other services. With Composio integration, it can also control browsers, fill forms, and interact with web applications. We configure the integrations most relevant to your workflow during setup. See our automation page for the full list of supported integrations.

A simple AI Telegram bot takes under 1 hour from start to finish, including BotFather configuration, AI model setup, web search, and testing. The full agent system with 267 agents takes 2-4 hours depending on integrations and custom workflows. Both include complete verification — nothing is handed off until everything works in your Telegram chat.

You can wire up a basic Telegram bot to an AI API in a few hours. But building a production-grade agent with persistent memory, web browsing, code execution, file handling, security hardening, group chat configuration, inline mode, error recovery, and multi-model routing takes days of trial and error. We have deployed AI Telegram bots for dozens of users and our setup is battle-tested across real production environments with 267 agents and 190+ skills. You skip the entire learning curve.