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Telegram Rate Limits

Telegram Rate Limits is the rate-limit profile for Telegram on the APIs.io network — every limit transcribed verbatim from the provider’s own documentation on 2026-11-05.

It captures 5 rate-limit definitions, including Messages to a single chat — In a single chat, avoid sending more than one message per second. We may allow short bursts that go over this limit, but eventually you’ll begin receiving 429 errors.; Messages to a group — In a group, bots are not be able to send more than 20 messages per minute.; Bulk notification broadcast — For bulk notifications, bots are not able to broadcast more than about 30 messages per second.

Tagged areas include Bots, Chat, Messaging, Notification, and Payments.

5 Limits
Transcribed from the provider's documentation on 2026-11-05 — core.telegram.org/bots/faq.md.
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Limits

Messages to a single chat per-chat
In a single chat, avoid sending more than one message per second. We may allow short bursts that go over this limit, but eventually you'll begin receiving 429 errors.
· per second
1
Messages to a group per-group
In a group, bots are not be able to send more than 20 messages per minute.
· per minute
20
Bulk notification broadcast per-bot
For bulk notifications, bots are not able to broadcast more than about 30 messages per second
· per second
'about 30' -- approximate in the docs, so no numeric limit is recorded
Paid broadcasts per-botPaid broadcasts
allows a bot to broadcast up to **1000 messages per second**
· per second
1000
Each message broadcasted over the free amount of 30 per second incurs a cost of **0.1 Stars per message**
File upload size per-request
Bots can currently send files of any type of up to 50 MB in size
10 MB max size for photos, 50 MB for other files (api.md, Sending files)

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