Telegram Bot Development: $155 Average, $5 Floor

role rate from the socialgood index, 2026-09-13.

3,652 products 806 gigs priced across 13 roles 800 chart rows, 13 categories 245 listings with multiples 150 categories ranked 11 pages rendered from the index 20 posts published by machine

role-rate · 2026-09-13 · 5 numbers checked against the index

Telegram bot development gigs average $155 to start. That's the marketplace-wide asking price across the category right now.

The floor is $5 — and notably, that's also what the top-rated seller in the category charges. pratyush39, the highest performer in the role with 249 reviews (the most of anyone tracked here), quotes work starting from $5, not from a premium tier. Topping the review count hasn't moved this seller off the floor price.

Supply is deep: 52 gigs are currently listed under this role, drawing from a pool of 29,000+ sellers competing for that work. Of that pool, only 3 carry vetted status — a thin slice set against the total supply available to buyers shopping this category.

The spread between the $5 floor and the $155 average is the room in this market: some sellers are pricing to win volume at the bottom, others are pricing the $155 average further up the range, and the person with the most reviews on record is still sitting at the bottom of that range rather than the top.

No single tool displacing this role shows up in the data — the pressure here reads as pricing and volume, not tooling.

For a freelancer deciding whether to list this week, the numbers say: the entry price is low, the field is crowded (29,000+ deep), and even the most-reviewed seller (249 reviews) hasn't used that standing to charge more than the floor.