What are Telegram gifts?
Telegram gifts are small animated items you buy with Telegram Stars and send to someone. Most stay simple keepsakes. Some get upgraded into unique collectibles with their own number and traits, and those trade for real money. As of November 2026, Sales Tracker has recorded 14.8M sales of collectible gifts worth 246.2M TON since January 2025.
Regular gifts
Telegram added gifts in 2024. You open a chat or a profile, pick a gift from the catalog, pay for it in Telegram Stars and send it, with an optional message. You can also hide your name as the sender.
The person who receives it has two choices. They can keep it on their profile, where visitors see it in the gifts tab. Or they can convert it into Stars, which destroys the gift. Conversion only works for a limited time after the gift arrives, and it usually returns less than the sender paid.
Some gifts are limited. Telegram issues a fixed number of them, the catalog shows how many are left, and once they sell out nobody can buy a new one. Limited supply is the first reason some gifts later became valuable.
Upgraded gifts are collectibles
A regular gift can be upgraded for a fee in Stars. The upgrade turns it into a unique collectible. It gets a serial number (for example Plush Pepe #1337) and three traits chosen at random:
- Model: the artwork of the gift itself. A gift can have well over a hundred models. Desk Calendar has 157 and Resistance Dog has 127.
- Backdrop: the background color behind the model.
- Symbol: a small pattern repeated across the backdrop.
Each trait shows a rarity percentage: how many gifts in that collection share it. A model held by 0.5% of a collection is far scarcer than one held by 2%. The guide on upgrading Telegram gifts explains the process step by step, and Telegram gift rarity covers what makes one gift rarer than another.
As of November 2026 Sales Tracker indexes 12.07M upgraded gifts across 125 collections, with 7,940 models between them. You can browse every one in the Finder.
Where gifts live
Gifts sit on your Telegram profile. Regular and upgraded gifts both appear in the gifts tab, and your privacy settings decide who sees them. An upgraded gift can also be worn as an emoji status next to your name, and Telegram then styles your profile with the gift's backdrop and symbol.
Every collectible has a public page at a link like t.me/nft/PlushPepe-1337. That page shows the model, backdrop, symbol, the owner (unless hidden) and how many of that gift exist.
Since January 2025 an upgraded gift can also be moved to the TON blockchain as an NFT. It then lives in a TON wallet and can be listed on outside marketplaces. Telegram requires the account's two step verification password for this export. A gift held in a wallet can still be shown on a Telegram profile.
To see what the gifts on a profile are worth, open your portfolio in Sales Tracker. You can also look up any public @username and see the gifts that profile shows.
Why some gifts are worth thousands of TON
A collectible's price comes from the same things that move any collectible market: how many exist, how rare its traits are and how many people want that collection. The spread is wide. Over the 30 days to November 2026, the median gift sale across all markets was 5.79 TON, while the median Plush Pepe sale was 6,666 TON.
| Gift | Sales, last 30 days | Median sale |
|---|---|---|
| Plush Pepe | 192 | 6,666 TON |
| Heart Locket | 303 | 1,234.9 TON |
| Resistance Dog | 20,791 | 589 TON |
| Durov's Cap | 1,686 | 413.1 TON |
| Myth Mask | 99,911 | 11.9 TON |
| Chill Flame | 137,326 | 4 TON |
Figures as of November 2026, from completed sales across Portals, MRKT, Tonnel, Getgems, Fragment, Market App and Telegram's own market.
Single gifts can go much higher. The largest sale Sales Tracker has recorded is Plush Pepe #2 with the Hothead model, sold for 158,814 TON in January 2026. The most expensive Telegram gifts guide lists the rest of the records.
How gifts are bought and sold
Upgraded gifts trade in two ways. Inside Telegram, an owner can put a gift up for resale with a price in Stars or TON, and buyers can make offers. Outside Telegram, gifts trade on marketplaces, most of them Telegram Mini Apps that settle in TON: Portals, MRKT, Tonnel, Market App, plus Getgems and Fragment.
The same gift can cost a different amount on each marketplace at the same moment, so buyers usually compare before paying. How to buy and sell Telegram gifts walks through each venue, and Compare marketplaces shows where each gift is cheapest right now.
Trading is busy. As of November 2026, 1.95M gift sales worth 43.1M TON closed in the last 30 days alone. October 2026 was the biggest month so far, with 1.72M sales and 38.4M TON in volume.
Following the market with Sales Tracker
Sales Tracker is a free tracker for Telegram gifts. It records sales from every major marketplace and shows prices for every gift and model, in Telegram and on the web. Places to start:
- Sales: every sale as it happens, filterable by gift, model, backdrop, symbol and marketplace.
- Finder: search any gift by name, model, backdrop, symbol or number.
- Heat map: the whole market at a glance, sized by market cap or volume.
- Deal Finder: listings priced under what similar gifts sell for.
- Alerts: a message from @SalesBot when a gift drops under your price.
To get going, open the Mini App in Telegram or start @SalesBot. To understand prices before you buy, read how to tell what a Telegram gift is worth.
Open Sales Tracker in Telegram
Questions
Are Telegram gifts NFTs?
Regular gifts are not. Upgraded gifts are unique collectibles, and their owners can move them to the TON blockchain as NFTs. Many trade on marketplaces in TON.
Can you sell Telegram gifts for money?
Upgraded gifts can be sold, either through Telegram's own resale feature or on marketplaces such as Portals, MRKT, Tonnel, Getgems, Fragment and Market App. Regular gifts can only be converted back into Stars, within a limited time.
How much is a Telegram gift worth?
It depends on the collection and its traits. As of November 2026, the median sale across all gifts over 30 days was 5.79 TON, while rare Plush Pepes sell for thousands. Check a gift's recent sales on Sales before you price it.
What does upgrading a Telegram gift do?
It turns a regular gift into a unique collectible with a serial number, a model, a backdrop and a symbol. Upgraded gifts can be transferred, resold, worn as an emoji status and moved to TON.
Where can I see my Telegram gifts?
On your Telegram profile, in the gifts tab. To see what they are worth, open your portfolio in Sales Tracker.