Pricing and features verified against each product's own documentation.
Telegram is where crypto communities actually talk — and where most analytics tools go quiet. The public web has a hundred listening tools; Telegram groups have a handful, and they do very different jobs under the same "analytics" label.
The clearest way to sort them is by the question they answer. How much is happening? — that's stats (TGStat, Combot). What did I miss? — that's digests (Junction Bot). What's the market talking about? — that's aggregate signals (Santiment). And how does our own community feel? — that's sentiment, and it's a shorter list than you'd hope. Here's the field.
The short version
For understanding how your own community feels inside your Telegram groups, Vibewatch is the tool built for the job — a bot you invite that scores every message for sentiment and relevance and writes your team a weekly report. For raw group statistics, TGStat and Combot are the established options. For catching up on message volume, Junction Bot's digests are clever and start around €5/mo.
1. Vibewatch — sentiment inside your groups
Vibewatch is community intelligence for web3 teams. Invite the bot to your Telegram groups and it reads what's actually being said — every message scored 1–10 for sentiment and 1–10 for relevance, calibrated to your project, with a correction loop: when you fix a wrong score, Vibewatch learns how your community talks. Telegram is covered alongside Discord, X, Bluesky, forums, YouTube comments, and the web3-native platforms, all in one consistent view.
The output is a weekly narrative report — what your community discussed, what's trending up or down, which members stood out, with citations to the actual messages — delivered to Slack, email, or Notion, with token and market context included so a vibe shift is never read in a vacuum. From $19/mo, month-to-month, 7-day trial.
Caveat, as always: Vibewatch is read-only intelligence. It won't moderate your group or welcome new members — it tells you what's happening in there.
2. TGStat — the Telegram stats directory
TGStat is the long-standing Telegram statistics service: channel and group metrics, growth curves, reach, citation tracking across the Telegram ecosystem. It's priced in rubles (roughly $47/mo entry at mid-2026 rates) and it's thoroughly quantitative — subscriber counts, view counts, forward graphs. If you need to benchmark channels or track reach across Telegram at scale, it's the reference tool. It never reads what messages mean.
3. Combot — moderation plus activity analytics
Combot is the established group-management bot: moderation, anti-spam, triggers, and activity analytics for your own groups. Worth knowing about the pricing: Pro is $8.33/mo for non-commercial use only; any company using it commercially is in Business territory at $83.33/mo. It's good at keeping a large group orderly and telling you who's active. Sentiment isn't part of the product — its analytics count, they don't read.
4. Junction Bot — AI digests of noisy groups
Junction Bot takes a different angle: it's a Telegram-native AI digest bot that reads the channels and chats you point it at and delivers scheduled summaries, organized by topic — "what mattered while you were away." Free tier, paid plans around €5–12.60/mo. For an individual keeping up with twenty groups, it's useful. It summarizes; it doesn't score sentiment, track trends over time, or report to a team.
5. Santiment — market-wide Telegram signals
Santiment ingests hundreds of public crypto Telegram chats as one input to its market-wide social metrics — trend detection for traders and analysts, from $49/mo. Two structural limits for community teams: it reads public chats in aggregate (there's no bot you can invite to your own groups), and its output is market metrics, not an account of your community. Right tool if you're asking "what's crypto talking about?"; wrong tool for "what's our group feeling?" Full comparison: Vibewatch vs Santiment.
Worth a footnote
- Mentionlytics covers Telegram, but only public, manually-added channels — monitoring a competitor's announcement channel, say — not your own groups from the inside.
- Sprinklr connects brand-owned Telegram groups via bot token at enterprise pricing, feeding engagement dashboards — with no community-sentiment reporting documented around those messages.
- The rest of the listening market covers Telegram thinly at best — Brand24 tracks some public channels, while Mention, Awario, and Octolens don't ingest it at all.
Comparison at a glance
| Tool | Price | What it does with Telegram |
|---|---|---|
| Vibewatch | $19/mo | In-group bot; per-message sentiment + relevance, correction learning, weekly narrative reports |
| TGStat | ~$47/mo (RUB-priced) | Ecosystem-wide channel/group statistics; quantitative only |
| Combot | $8.33/mo non-commercial; $83.33/mo commercial | Moderation + activity analytics for your groups; no sentiment |
| Junction Bot | Free; €5–12.60/mo | AI topic digests of channels/chats; summaries, not scoring |
| Santiment | $49/mo | Public chats in aggregate, feeding market-wide metrics; no bot for your groups |
| Mentionlytics | $69/mo ($49 annual) | Public, manually-added channels only |
How to choose
Match the tool to the question. If you need order and activity stats in a big group, Combot. If you need ecosystem-wide reach numbers, TGStat. If you personally need to catch up on volume, Junction Bot. If you're an analyst reading the whole market, Santiment.
And if you're the team running the project — if the question is "how does our community actually feel this week, and what should we do about it?" — that requires reading your own groups from the inside and scoring what's said. That's Vibewatch, and at $19/mo it costs less than the Combot Business tier it complements.
Start a free 7-day trial — invite the bot to your groups and your first weekly report lands within the week. No credit card required.