3 categories · RankedTelegram
Telegram is a messaging platform · telegram.org ↗
Why models recommend it
“Quick setup without coding: Telegram bot API or Discord webhooks”MiniMax M2.5 · Budget-constrained question · alternative
What gives them pause
“Telegram: Avoid for sensitive conversations unless using Secret Chats; ordinary Telegram chats are not end-to-end encrypted by default.”Perplexity Sonar · Negative question · warning
“Messaging apps and practices to avoid are explicitly discussed in security round-ups, with Telegram commonly cited for the reasons above.”Muse Glimmer 30B · Negative question · warning
“Telegram has been associated with online grooming, illegal content sharing, and privacy concerns”Mistral Small · Negative question · warning
“it has been targeted by spyware kits (e.g., "uCreator") that steal 2FA codes and clone accounts”GLM 4.7 FlashX · Negative question · warning
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as Telegram, over the 25 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 20 | 0 | View → | |
| 13 | 0 | View → | |
| 11 | 2 | View → | |
| 10 | 6 | View → | |
| 9 | 0 | View → | |
| 8 | 2 | View → | |
| 7 | 0 | View → | |
| 5 | 2 | View → | |
| 5 | 0 | View → | |
| 5 | 0 | View → |
What the models named instead of Telegram →
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on Telegram's own site, not checked by Gane.
- Founded
- 2013
How this is measured
Fourteen AI models from 12 labs are asked the same buying questions six ways, for three company sizes. Standings refresh every edition.
Gane sells AI visibility software. No company can pay to change a result.
Read the method →Sources returned with these answers
Fourteen of the fourteen models returned a source list in this edition: five return the pages they cited and nine the search results they consulted. These counts come from 24 of the 25 answers that named Telegram and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
Thirty-eight of the forty-two domain citations in answers naming Telegram came from a third party's page. Four were to the publisher's own pages (the Gane Index), which the models cite like any other source; they are not counted as a third party.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
By model
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Warning | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
What it publishes
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 19 | 2 | 2026-08-25 | ||
| Case study | 1 | undated | |||
| Conference or event | 1 | undated | |||
| Template or tool | 1 | 0 | 2025-07-01 | ||
| News or press | 1 | undated |
Most recent
- 2026-08-25Welcome messages buttons TG 13 blog
- 2026-07-14Communities editor invisible messages blog
- 2026-06-11Watch apps and more blog
- 2026-05-07Ai bot revolution 11 new features blog
- 2026-03-31Ai editor mighty polls and more blog
- 2026-03-01Member tags disable sharing and more blog
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page telegram.org exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. An event counts as online when its address or title says so (webinar, on demand, virtual or online summit); a conference, summit, trade show, expo or roadshow that does not say so is counted as a conference or event, which on a vendor's site is mostly in person. Read September 29, 2026.