Check if a Telegram channel's subscribers are real
Telegram subscribers can be bought for a few dollars per thousand. The view counter under each post on a public channel cannot be faked nearly as cheaply, so the gap between the two is what gives an inflated channel away. Paste a channel username below and this page will show its views per subscriber and where that ranks against tracked channels of the same size. It is free, needs no account, and works on any public channel.
A username, an @handle, or a t.me link all work.
Views per subscriber, benchmarked by channel size
Views per subscriber falls steeply as a channel grows, so a single threshold would be wrong at almost every size. These are the measured percentiles from our own crawl of public t.me pages.
| Channel size | Bottom 10% | Typical (median) | Top 10% | Channels measured |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1K-5K subscribers | 5.2% | 31.3% | 171% | 6,764 sampled |
| 5K-20K subscribers | 2.7% | 17.2% | 96.1% | 2,765 sampled |
| 20K-100K subscribers | 1.6% | 9.1% | 54.6% | 1,099 sampled |
| 100K-500K subscribers | 0.77% | 6.4% | 40.4% | 8,171 |
| 500K+ subscribers | 0.35% | 3.5% | 29.8% | 1,195 |
What this check cannot see
Everything here comes from the public t.me preview page, which means the limits are the same ones anyone else faces. Private and invite-only channels publish no view counts, so they cannot be checked by this tool or any other - and they are exactly the channels most often put up for sale. Groups and supergroups have no per-post view counter at all. And a channel we have not managed to read recently will say so rather than show a stale number. Where we cannot measure something, this page says so instead of guessing.