{"rid":"debrid/telegram-premium","card":{"rid":"debrid/telegram-premium","eid":"telegram","topic":"debrid","slug":"telegram-premium","provider":"Telegram Premium","url":"https://telegram.org/faq_premium","domain":"telegram.org","category":"account subscription (upload tier)","tier":"premium","verdict":"paid-only","vorder":3,"grp":"paid","confidence":"documented","binding":"per-object-cap","identity_kind":"card","identity_basis":"stated","needs_card":1,"needs_phone":1,"needs_id":0,"needs_institution":0,"country":null,"crypto":null,"interfaces":"rest","egress_metered":0,"per_object_bytes":null,"retention_days":null,"verified_at":"2026-10-23T01:52:23.000Z","verified_basis":"live","checked_on":"2026-10-24","stale_on":"2026-11-23","n_evidence":4,"usd_month":null,"usd_per_tb_month":null,"summary":"Not free. Premium's feature list carries '4 GB File Uploads' and 'Faster Download Speed'; the free account stays at 2 GB per file.","duplicate_of":null,"n_unknown":0},"record":{"topic":"debrid","slug":"telegram-premium","provider":"Telegram Premium","url":"https://telegram.org/faq_premium","category":"account subscription (upload tier)","tier":"premium","free_tier":{"stated":"Not free. Premium's feature list carries '4 GB File Uploads' and 'Faster Download Speed'; the free account stays at 2 GB per file.","unit":"none","metered_on":"none","source_url":"https://telegram.org/faq_premium","read_on":"2026-10-23","notes":"the free tier of the same product is recorded at dossier/storage/telegram-mtproto-user-account-unlimited-channels-as-the.json"},"per_object_cap":{"stated":"4 GB per file, against 2 GB on a free account.","bytes":null,"source_url":"https://telegram.org/faq_premium","notes":"no byte-exact boundary is published; the FAQ says '4 GB'"},"retention":{"stated":"Cloud chat media is kept until deleted. Telegram's FAQ: 'you can keep all your media in the cloud without deleting things'.","days":null,"source_url":"https://telegram.org/faq","notes":"no retention window is stated for cloud chats; secret chats are excluded from the cloud entirely"},"egress":{"terms":"'Subscribing lifts any media download speed limits from your account on Telegram's side.' Non-subscribers can still fetch a Premium user's 2 GB+ file: 'any user can download large 2+ GB files uploaded by premium users.'","metered":false,"free_allowance":"no byte allowance; the throttle is speed, not volume","price_per_tb":null,"source_url":"https://telegram.org/faq_premium"},"interface":["rest"],"interface_detail":"Purchased and managed through the client or @PremiumBot; the upload ceiling applies to the account, not to an API.","tooling":"Any MTProto client or TDLib-based tool inherits the account's tier; Bot API bots do not, because a bot has no Premium tier of its own.","chaining":"Turns 2 GB objects into 4 GB objects for a TDLib or MTProto client, halving the object count of a 1 TiB month; it does not lift any bot's 20 MB/50 MB limit.","limits":[{"kind":"per-object-cap","value":"4 GB per file (2 GB free)","source":"https://telegram.org/faq_premium"},{"kind":"per-ip-shaping","value":"media download speed limits are lifted only for subscribers","source":"https://telegram.org/faq_premium"}],"binding":"per-object-cap","binding_note":"1 TiB/month at 4 GB is 256 objects; the object ceiling is still the first wall, and flood control is unreachable at that count.","identity_cost":{"kind":"card","detail":"A paid subscription. The FAQ says the first payment's currency and price follow 'the country code of the phone number of your Telegram account', so the price is country-specific and was not read as a number.","country":null},"reliability_note":"A free account downloading large media is speed-limited on Telegram's side; a Premium lapse returns the account to 2 GB objects and the speed limit immediately.","confidence":"documented","confidence_note":"Features and the speed sentence are on the Premium FAQ read today. The price is deliberately not stated because the page states no figure.","evidence":[{"url":"https://telegram.org/faq_premium","date":"2026-10-23","proved":"feature list lines '[4 GB File Uploads](https://t.me/premium/5)' and '[Faster Download Speed](https://t.me/premium/7)'"},{"url":"https://telegram.org/faq_premium","date":"2026-10-23","proved":"'Subscribing lifts any media download speed limits from your account on Telegram's side.'"},{"url":"https://telegram.org/faq_premium","date":"2026-10-23","proved":"'This also applies to files: any user can download large 2+ GB files uploaded by premium users.'"},{"url":"https://telegram.org/faq","date":"2026-10-23","proved":"'Send and receive files of any type, up to 2 GB in size each (or 4 GB with Premium)'"}],"verdict":"paid-only","price_per_tb_month":null,"notes":"The price is a live gap: the FAQ defers it to the phone number's country, and @PremiumBot is the only quoter. Abandon the record if the 4 GB figure moves; re-check t.me/premium/5 at the same time.","verified_at":"2026-10-23T01:52:23.000Z"},"claims":[{"path":"$.free_tier.stated","kind":"free-quota","num":4,"unit":"GB","per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"ok"},{"path":"$.limits[0].value","kind":"limit:per-object-cap","num":4,"unit":"GB","per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"ok"},{"path":"$.limits[1].value","kind":"limit:per-ip-shaping","num":null,"unit":null,"per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"unparsed"}],"unknown":[],"history":[],"drift":[]}