How do I gift Telegram Premium to a friend?

Can I buy Premium for someone else with crypto?

Yes: Fragment and crypto sellers sell Premium as a gift to a username. Fragment’s terms say a paid subscription can be applied to your own account or given away at your discretion. Its gift page has a username field and offers 12, 6 and 3 months. A buyer who holds USDT can use Fragment directly at its list price, plus the network fee, by connecting a TON wallet.

At Aurelstar the only Telegram detail is the username. An order is sent straight to the customer’s username. Aurelstar never asks for a Telegram password, login code or session. If your friend cannot find theirs, send them How do I find my Telegram username?. The payment path itself is under How do I buy Telegram Premium with crypto?, and the order path under How does buying Telegram Stars with crypto work at Aurelstar?.

How does a Premium gift work in the Telegram app?

Telegram’s FAQ puts the Gift Premium button on a user’s profile, with 3, 6 and 12 months at discounted rates. The FAQ words this for people who already subscribed. Third-party guides disagree on whether the gifter needs Premium, and Telegram’s API documentation does not make it a condition. A crypto gift needs nothing from the gifter’s Telegram account.

Telegram’s API documentation adds that gifts are sold with discounts by duration. A Premium gift is a non-recurring subscription: it does not renew when its term ends.

What does my friend have to do?

Nothing is documented as a step for the recipient. Telegram’s API documentation describes no accept step: the recipient of a gift gets a service message. It does not say whether a recipient’s gift settings can stop a purchase. That service message carries the price and the duration. Users can restrict the gift types they receive, so a friend who has done that is the case to check first. Gift codes are the exception, as the section below explains.

Can I pay for a Premium gift with Stars, and how many?

Stars can pay for a Premium gift, and no official page publishes how many it takes. Section 6.3 of the Stars terms lists gift subscriptions to Premium among what Stars buy. Telegram’s API returns the Stars options at run time. Aurelstar found no Stars price for a Premium gift on any official page it read on 4 November 2026, so this page gives no figure and no estimate.

How do Premium gift codes and links work?

A gift code is a shareable link with a unique code, and it comes from a channel giveaway. Under section 7.8 of the Premium terms, each giveaway winner gets such a link, and activating it is a step for the recipient. Giveaways can be bought in store apps, in direct and web versions and on Fragment, and prices can differ between them. They are nonrefundable, and links that were not distributed go to the channel’s admins.

An Aurelstar order is not a code. It goes straight to the username typed at checkout.

What happens if my friend already has Premium?

Telegram’s documents do not say. The API pages describe gifting to a user who does not have Premium. What a gift does on an active subscription is not covered in anything Aurelstar read on 4 November 2026. Aurelstar claims no outcome here, so ask your friend before you pay.

What does a Premium gift cost in the App Store?

Aurelstar found a one-off 3-month Premium item in 13 of the 30 App Store storefronts it read on 4 November 2026, from $14.10 to $19.86 in US dollar terms. Fragment’s 3-month gift cost $11.99 that day, and Aurelstar’s cost $12.59, which is Fragment’s price plus 5%, read on 4 November 2026. Telegram’s FAQ says gifted subscriptions use a global rate so they work between countries, yet these store items differ by storefront.

We do not claim to be the cheapest: some crypto sellers charged less on 4 November 2026. For 1,000 Stars, where our price is $15.75, split.tg showed $15.30, Gramix from $15.30 and GMPAPA $15.45. On 3 months of Premium, 3 sellers charged less: Gramix, GMPAPA and Shiba Bank. Store plans and their prices are under How much does Telegram Premium cost in 2026?.