Buy Telegram Premium by @username

What Telegram Premium actually gives you

Telegram Premium is the messenger's paid tier. It launched in June 2022, and the feature set has grown steadily since — the 2026 version looks little like the original. Everything below switches on by itself the moment the subscription lands on your account; there is nothing to install and no code to redeem.

What the subscription unlocks:

• uploads of up to 4 GB per file or video, with no throttling on the way back down;
• 1000 channel subscriptions and up to 20 chat folders, double the free ceiling;
• automatic speech-to-text transcription of voice and video messages;
• no ads in large public channels;
• sticker packs, reactions and emoji that free accounts cannot use;
• animated profile photos, custom chat wallpapers and wider theming controls;
• business tools — greeting messages, opening hours, quick replies and basic analytics;
• the Premium badge next to your name, visible to everyone you talk to.

One detail people often miss: Premium upgrades your side of a conversation. The stickers, reactions and emoji you send stay visible to the people you send them to, whether or not they pay for anything.

The gap between free and paid is felt most by heavy users. A free account tops out at 2 GB per file, 500 channels, 10 folders and 5 pinned chats per folder. Premium roughly doubles all of it. If you archive large documents, juggle work and personal chats, or follow dozens of channels, those ceilings are usually what pushes the upgrade.

Telegram spent its early years as a free, ad-free product, and the team framed Premium as a way to fund infrastructure as the user base crossed the hundreds of millions — keeping ads in large channels and paid features unobtrusive rather than turning the app into an ad platform.

How to buy Telegram Premium on Ashop

The whole flow takes a couple of minutes and needs no VPN, no foreign card and no region switch.

1. Open Telegram settings and check that you have a public username — the handle that starts with @. If the field is empty, pick one and save it. Delivery is addressed by username, so without a public @ the gift has nowhere to go.
2. On the Telegram page in the Ashop catalog, choose the subscription length: 3, 6 or 12 months. Gift activation only lands on an account that does not already have Premium running.
3. Type your @username into the order field in full, including the @. Read it back character by character — the order is delivered to exactly the handle you enter, and the recipient normally cannot be changed once payment clears.
4. Add an email address for the receipt and pick a payment method: bank card, SBP through any participating banking app, or crypto (USDT, BTC, ETH).
5. Confirm the payment and watch Telegram, not your inbox. Premium arrives through the messenger's native gift flow — an animated system message from Telegram itself.

Buying it for someone else works exactly the same way: enter their @username instead of yours at step 3, and they get the animated gift notification in-app.

Repeat orders are quicker — Ashop remembers your email, so you only pick the term, check the handle and pay.

Payment methods

• Bank cards, including MIR, Visa and Mastercard. The payment runs through the bank's own secure form, so your card details never reach Ashop, and 3-D Secure behaves as usual.
• SBP (the Russian Fast Payment System). Pay by QR code or payment link from any participating banking app — Sber, T-Bank, Alfa-Bank, VTB, Raiffeisen, Gazprombank and others. Handy when a card is declined.
• Crypto — USDT, BTC, ETH. The most portable option if you are outside the card and SBP rails. The rate is locked when the invoice is created and the transfer clears on normal network confirmations.

QIWI, third-party wallets and foreign payment aggregators are not used. The final amount is shown before you confirm, and the receipt is emailed as soon as the payment goes through.

Security: what a legitimate seller never asks for

Premium delivery is built on Telegram's own gift mechanism. That mechanism needs exactly one thing — a public @username. Nothing else about your account is required, and nothing else should ever be requested.

You will never be asked for:

• your Telegram account password;
• a login code, whether from SMS or from Telegram's official service chat;
• two-factor authentication or cloud-password details;
• access to an active session, or an export of your chats;
• screenshots of conversations or contacts.

If a seller asks for a login code or a password, that is an account takeover attempt, not a checkout step. Ashop asks for a username and an email address, and that is the whole list. Your 2FA, hidden contacts and private chats are untouched by the purchase.

Worth doing before you buy: turn on two-step verification and set a cloud password in Telegram's privacy settings. And copy your username straight out of Telegram settings rather than typing it — a single wrong character sends the subscription to a stranger with a similar handle.

The gift itself arrives from Telegram's official service account, shows up as a system notification, and activates on its own. The recipient does not have to accept anything.

Three scams circulate around Premium purchases and are worth recognising on sight. The first asks you to "pay through your own account" and hand over the code from Telegram's service chat — that code is the login, and sharing it hands over the account. The second offers to "log in and set Premium up for you" in exchange for your password and cloud password, which can cost you every chat you have. The third is a lookalike site styled after an official service, with a login-code form dressed up as the Telegram Login Widget, harvesting sessions.

The rule that covers all three: no legitimate way of buying Premium involves a password, a login code or session access. Telegram deliberately designed gifting so a public handle is enough. Anything beyond that is a reason to close the tab.

Who Premium pays off for

The subscription earns its keep fastest for three groups.

People who move large files — designers, editors, developers, teachers shipping lecture recordings. The jump from 2 GB to 4 GB per file removes the routine of splitting archives before sending them.

People who read a lot. A thousand channel subscriptions across twenty folders is the difference between a sorted set of tabs and one undifferentiated feed of work, news and personal chatter.

People who get long voice messages and cannot always listen to them. Automatic transcription turns a four-minute voice note into something you can skim in a meeting or on a train.

Beyond that, Premium is simply quieter: no ads in the big public channels, no download throttling, and a set of stickers and reactions the free tier cannot touch. The subscription can be bought for your own account or as a gift — the mechanics are identical, only the handle in the order changes.

Why buy Telegram Premium from Ashop

Ashop is a practical route to Premium wherever App Store, Google Play and Telegram's built-in purchase button do not work — which now covers Russia, much of the CIS, and anyone whose card simply gets declined at checkout.

What you get:

• several ways to pay — bank card, SBP or crypto — with no foreign card and no VPN required;
• delivery by @username, with no password and no login code ever leaving your hands;
• fulfilment through Telegram's own gift system, rather than a region swap or a shared account;
• the subscription arriving as an in-app system notification, so there is no code to copy anywhere;
• support reachable on Telegram if a payment or an activation goes sideways;
• three subscription lengths — 3, 6 or 12 months — to match how far ahead you want to commit;
• an emailed receipt and full order history in your account for later reference.

It is a working alternative to app-store billing you cannot use: you pay through a rail that works for you, and the Premium features arrive in full through Telegram's official gifting flow.

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

The answers below come from Telegram's official documentation and from our own order handling. If yours is not covered, message support — we answer on Telegram around the clock.