How much does Telegram chat monitoring cost and what drives the price

Pricing structure

XMBoost sells three paid plans, Silver, Gold and Platinum, plus a free trial ahead of them. The only thing that changes between the three paid tiers is how many Telegram chats the platform watches around the clock: 300 for Silver, 600 for Gold, 1,000 for Platinum. Features are identical across all three, so choosing a plan is really choosing a monitoring radius, not a feature set.

Current monthly rates for each tier live on the pricing page and change from time to time, so this article focuses on what the plan actually buys you and how to pick the right one, rather than repeating numbers that go stale.

You're paying for coverage, not for a lead

There's no cap on how many leads a subscription can deliver. The plan only sets scale: how many chats get read. How many of those chats turn into an actual commercial request depends on your niche, the mix of sources the platform assembles, and your own project settings, mainly the minimum delivery score and the AI instruction describing your ideal client.

That has a practical upside and a practical catch. In a busy niche, the number of leads you get for the same monthly bill keeps climbing as the platform tunes itself to better sources, so cost per lead falls on its own. In a narrow niche, you're paying to have someone watch, not for a guaranteed find, which is exactly why a narrow niche is worth testing during the free trial rather than after signing up for a paid tier.

What changes between tiers, and what doesn't

Every plan, including the trial, ships with the same mechanics: AI onboarding that builds your buyer profile and keyword set, automatic chat sourcing, two-stage AI filtering, a 1-100 relevance score on every lead, delivery straight into a working Telegram chat, filter and threshold controls, analytics, the ability to change a project's direction, and search freezing. None of that is held back for the higher tiers.

What does change is scale, and the math behind the scale favors going up. Each step up buys proportionally more chats for the added monthly cost than the step before it: moving from Silver to Gold adds more monitoring capacity per added dollar than staying flat would, and moving from Gold to Platinum adds even more. In other words, the price curve gets flatter as coverage grows, so a wider plan tends to be more efficient per monitored chat, not less.

Which tier fits your business

• Silver is built for one narrow direction, a single service or a single segment you want to test.
• Gold is the default for most B2B service businesses running one clear offer.
• Platinum is for large or crowded niches where competition for the same buyers is intense and being early matters.

The right choice isn't about company size. It's about the ratio between what you'd pay for a plan, what an average closed deal is worth to you, and how often people in your line of work actually post a relevant request on Telegram in the first place. A high-value deal justifies wide coverage even if requests are rare. A low-value deal needs a steady stream of them to make sense.

If you only need the extra reach temporarily, there's Boost x10, an add-on for 7, 15 or 30 days that multiplies the chat count of your current plan by ten: Silver's 300 becomes 3,000, Gold's 600 becomes 6,000, Platinum's 1,000 becomes 10,000. It suits a busy season, a new service launch, a one-off campaign, or testing a niche before committing to a bigger plan for good.

Working out payback

The formula is straightforward: deals needed to break even equal the plan's monthly cost divided by your gross profit on one closed deal, profit meaning what's left once you've covered the cost of doing the work, not raw revenue. Run that math with your own numbers and your current rate, and for most service businesses with a meaningful profit margin per deal, the lower two tiers pay for themselves with a single closed deal; the widest tier tends to need two.

One number this formula can't supply in advance is your own conversion rate from lead to closed deal. That depends on how fast your team responds and how the conversation is handled from there, and it stays your hypothesis to test, not something XMBoost controls on your behalf. Neither the number of leads nor the number of deals that follow from them is something we promise.

One more data point worth factoring in: across projects running the AI agent qualification module, roughly one in five warm leads turns out to be genuinely qualified. That figure applies specifically to setups with the qualification module switched on, which isn't included in any plan and is priced separately, on request.

What actually drives lead volume

There's no honest single answer to "how many leads a month," and that's not us hedging, it's what the data shows. A ten-day measurement across our production base in July 2026, covering five live projects, produced this many delivered leads per monitored chat, per month, by direction:

The gap between the busiest and quietest direction runs about twentyfold. A single volume number for the whole platform would be meaningless by definition. Any estimate for your own niche is a read on our measurements, not a promise of what you'll see.

Scaling those numbers up to a bigger plan isn't linear, either. The measurement above sits at around 200 active chats; beyond that point we apply a saturation factor of roughly 0.6, since the strongest chats get picked into a project first and simple multiplication overstates what a wider plan will actually deliver. The honest way to read any projection is a range of give or take 40%, not a fixed point.

The five directions above are the only ones we've measured closely enough to quote. For a niche outside that list, the right number comes from running a two-week test project of your own, not from borrowing a neighboring category's figure.

Other things that affect what you pay

• Annual billing. Paying for a full year instead of month to month gets you a 20% discount off the standard monthly rate.
• Search freezing. Pause monitoring for 12 hours or more, up to 7 days total in a month; unused paid days roll over to the end of the billing period.
• One active project per subscription. You can change the direction inside a project for free, as many times as you like. Running two directions side by side means a second subscription.
• Qualification module. The AI sales agent add-on that pre-qualifies warm leads isn't bundled with any plan. It's sold separately, priced on request.

Testing your own niche before you commit

The free trial runs 5 days, covers 150 chats, and includes one project at no cost. That's technically half of Silver's scale, smaller reach, identical mechanics. In those five days you describe the business during onboarding, get a set of chats the platform has sourced for you, connect delivery into a working Telegram chat, watch the first leads arrive, judge how relevant they actually are, and get a real feel for payback using your own deal size, not a projection.

The usual path is to pick a plan and attach a card without an immediate charge; billing only starts once the trial ends. A manual activation without a card is available as an exception, on request.

It's worth running the comparison against doing this by hand during that same window. Nobody reads hundreds of chats around the clock without missing things: requests posted outside working hours get lost, a dedicated person watching manually doesn't scale past one or two niches, and a plain keyword search on top of it all drags in far more noise than signal. Five days already surface real leads in your own niche and let you judge how relevant they are, before you've spent a cent.