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Telegram

26Judge labels
0First choices
23Negative labels
12 / 14Models named it
2Categories
October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10-05.2, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
0% in In-app messaging for mid-market buyers
Rank 105 of 105 in the mid-market standingcriticized challenger
0 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 91% of its 11 labels there were negative.
What the models named instead of Telegram →
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
In in-app messaging · each standing computed within its segment · bars are 0 to 100 · the accent bar is the product's own best reading

Standing by category

Every category where a model named Telegram for a mid-market B2B company. Share is first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts; rank is within every product named in that category.
CategoryFunctionShareRankNegative rateLabelsQuadrantSince September 2026
In-app messaging and customer communicationsCustomer0%105 of 10591%11criticized challenger=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
Community platformsCustomer0%56 of 750%1under 10 labels · led by Bettermode at 29%=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.

Movement

Since September 2026, Telegram held within the floor in all two categories: no change cleared 11 points.

Best category · In-app messaging · by segment

Small business=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
0%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 11 pointsRank 106 → 97 of 107
Mid-market=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
0%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 11 pointsRank 108 → 96 of 96
Enterprise=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
0%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 11 pointsRank 92 → 96 of 97

All categories · Mid-market

CategorySeptember 2026NowChangeReadingRank
In-app messaging0%0%=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.Within noiseRank 108 → 105 of 105
Community0%0%=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.Within noiseRank 57 → 56 of 75

Shares here are read over the models both editions asked, so they can differ by a point or two from the standing above, which counts every model in this edition.

The floor is 11 points of share, measured: how far the models move a leader on their own when the same questions are asked twice with nothing changed. A larger change is movement; a smaller one is noise, and both are shown. Movement is read over the twelve models both editions asked; GPT-6 Luna, Muse Glimmer 30B joined this edition and are in the standing but not yet in the comparison. How the floor is measured · The editions

By model

How each model treated Telegram across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.
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ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionNegativeLabels
Claude Haiku 4.500011
GPT-5.4 mini00000
Gemini 3.5 Flash00011
Perplexity Sonar00101
Grok 4.2000011
Mistral Small00000
DeepSeek V4 Flash00112
Llama 4 Maverick00000
Qwen 3.7 Flash00011
Kimi K200011
GLM 4.7 FlashX00011
MiniMax M2.500011
GPT-6 Luna00011
Muse Glimmer 30B00011

By framing

Which of the six questions produced the naming. By model says how often; this says asked what. The first-choice count on the right carries the marks of the models that produced it.
FramingLabels by classFirst choices
Direct0 labelsNone
Paraphrase0 labelsNone
Comparative1 labelNone
Budget-constrained1 labelNone
Scale-constrained0 labelsNone
Negative24 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative26 labels in all, every segment counted; 0 of the 0 first choices count toward share, since the comparative and negative framings do not. The bar is one segment per label class, to scale within the framing.

What the models said for it

Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.

No positive label carried a quote.

And against it

Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.

“For sensitive communication, avoid using: Telegram (possible connections to Russia, with allegations of collaboration with the FSB)” Claude Haiku 4.5 · In-app messaging · negative prompt · hard negative
“Never use standard consumer-grade applications as a proxy for a dedicated, secure in-app messaging platform.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · In-app messaging · negative prompt · hard negative
“Default chats are NOT end-to-end encrypted; only "Secret Chats" offer E2EE” Qwen 3.7 Flash · In-app messaging · negative prompt · hard negative
“it has privacy drawbacks: end-to-end encryption is not enabled by default” MiniMax M2.5 · In-app messaging · negative prompt · hard negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Telegram, over the 26 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Telegram was named but was not.
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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
WhatsApp20 of 260Not among the top eight
Signal18 of 267Not among the top eight
Slack11 of 262Not among the top eight
Facebook Messenger10 of 260Not among the top eight
Wire9 of 262Not among the top eight
Discord9 of 260Not among the top eight
Microsoft Teams8 of 262Not among the top eight
Sendbird7 of 260Not among the top eight
Intercom6 of 260Not among the top eight
Stream Chat6 of 260Not among the top eight
A head-to-head page exists where both products are among a category's top eight. The other rows are the same fact without a page behind them, so they link to the product instead.

What carried it into the answer

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named Telegram. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 25 of the 26 answers that named Telegram and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

mcafee.com9
rocket.chat9
wire.com9
cometchat.com8
sendbird.com8
guideflow.com6
userpilot.com6
kaspersky.com5
surfshark.com5
techradar.com5

Seventy of the seventy domain citations in answers naming Telegram came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

telegram.org is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Telegram takes 0% of first choices and Intercom takes 21%.
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In search

Google, US estimates
Position for “in-app messaging platform”
–
not in the top ten
Position for “best in-app messaging platform”
–
not in the top ten
Searches for its name, Google
1,000,000 a month (“telegram”)
AI search demand for its name, est.
45,083 a month
Organic visits to its site
about 1,601,421 a month
Searches its site ranks for
10,660 · 4,307 in the top three
Sites linking to it
133,796
Paid Google search
No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none
Ads on GoogleDetailLess
1 ads · 1 text · 0 shown in the last 30 days

First shown December 2025, as ARTYOM ISAYCHEV, verified. Ads started 2025-10 to 2026-09: 1 in the year.

On Google's pages: 1

In answers

This edition
Share of first choices
0%
rank 105 of 105 in in-app messaging
Segment leader
21%
Intercom
First choices
0 across its categories
Named in
26 answers
Its own site cited
in 25 of the answers that named it

Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read September 28, 2026; AI search demand is its modeled, directional estimate, not a count of queries to any assistant. The answers are this edition's. Two measurements side by side: neither is read as the cause of the other.

What it publishes

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Addresses on telegram.org
33
subdomains included
Content
23
counted in the table below
Documentation
0
Product · Integration
0 · 0
KindPagesLast 90 days2025-10 to 2026-09LatestCategories named
Blog1922026-08-25
Case study1undated
Conference or event1undated
Template or tool102025-07-01
News or press1undated
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.

Follow Telegram

An email the morning each edition publishes: where this product moved, where it held, and by how much against the noise floor. One address, confirmed by a click; a stop link in every email.

Already following? Everything you follow, with a stop for each.

The company

Q15616276 is the company behind Telegram.
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On record

Wikidata
Founded
2013

Fetched September 14, 2026. These describe the company, not the product's standing, and a claimed page can dispute any of them. · Wikidata · Crunchbase

In its own words

Stated by the vendor, not checked
Positioning
a new era of messaging
Not stated on the pages read
Who it is for, price, starting price, free plan or trial, integrations, certifications, hosting, customers

What Telegram's own pages state, read September 28, 2026: telegram.org. A claimed page can correct any of them.

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Claiming is free and changes nothing in the data. A claimed page shows a verified contact who is told when each edition publishes and when Telegram's standing changes by more than the noise floor; the right to propose corrections to the vendor table, meaning names the judge wrote that should or should not read as Telegram, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.

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A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Telegram by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:

  • where Telegram is named, by buyer and by framing, and which cells hold its first choices;
  • the claims the models make when they name it, ranked, with the strongest and the weakest quoted;
  • its vocabulary against the segment leader's, and the pages the models cited;
  • who was chosen in the answers that did not name Telegram, and every reason the record gives;
  • a battlecard for each top rival: the head-to-head split, why they win, and the reservation quoted against them;
  • one page of published figures cleared to show a buyer.
The subscriber app

A verification link goes to your work email; an address at telegram.org is approved on the spot, any other is reviewed by hand. Your email is never published. Claiming gives no say over labels, shares, verdicts or which quotes appear.