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In 2026, a Telegram username is worth anywhere from a few Gram (prev. Toncoin) to 1.5 million Gram: a regular name made of a word and an ending sells on Fragment for about 10 Gram, around $15, while short dictionary names go for hundreds of thousands of Gram (October 2026).
Key Takeaways
- Spelling matters more than length: @alex sold for 21,110 Gram and @alex01 for 19 Gram, so two digits at the end cut the price more than a thousand times.
- Resales are hidden on Fragment: @boss was resold for 500,000 USDT in April 2026, but its Fragment page still shows only the 2022 auction price of 40,000 Gram.
- The usual result is about $15: the median sale of “coffee + ending” names in 2025-2026 is 10 Gram, while the average for the same deals is more than four times higher.
What Is a Telegram Username
A Telegram username is a public name in the @name format in Telegram, the messenger Pavel Durov launched in 2013 and that more than a billion people use today. The name gives you a t.me/username link and lets people find your account in search without your phone number.
Only a collectible Telegram username has a price. It is a name in the form of an NFT that belongs to a crypto wallet and is sold for Gram on Fragment (the official Telegram platform for selling names). A regular name of 5 to 32 characters is free to take in the settings, and it has no market price until the owner puts it up for auction.
What Is the Most Expensive Telegram Username
The most expensive Telegram username is @danbao: it sold on Fragment for 1,583,948 Gram in February 2026, about $2.4 million at the October 2026 rate. Next on the list of sold names are:
- @news: 994,000 Gram, November 2022.
- @auto: 900,000 Gram, November 2022.
- @bank: 850,000 Gram, November 2022.
- @avia: 800,000 Gram, November 2022.
Eight of the ten most expensive deals took place in November 2022, during the first wave of auctions. Big resales also happen outside Fragment: in April 2026, @boss was resold on Getgems (an NFT marketplace on the TON network) for 500,000 USDT, although it was bought for 40,000 Gram in 2022. The deal is recorded on the TON blockchain, so anyone can check it.
The deal history of the @boss username on Getgems and Fragment
What Makes a Telegram Username Valuable
A Telegram username becomes valuable because of its length, a dictionary word, a brand, demand and spelling. Each of these factors shows up in real deals:
- Length: Names of 4 characters exist only as collectibles, and all ten of the most expensive Telegram usernames are shorter than seven letters.
- Dictionary Word: @chat and @king work as ready-made signs, and buyers paid 700,000 and 675,000 Gram for them.
- Brand: @polymarket, a 10-letter name, sold for 105 Gram in 2023 and for 354,900 Gram in August 2026, when a well-known company already stood behind the name.
- Demand: Four wallets competed for @news, and from November 11 to 16, 2022, the bid grew from 9,850 Gram to the final price, a 100-fold rise.
- Spelling: Digits and underscores lower the price more than any other factor: @coffeeway sold for 500 Gram, while @coffee_way sold for 147 Gram in the same days.
- Brand With an Add-On: @jpmorgan cost 168,000 Gram, while @jpmorgan_ru and @linkedin_tg sold for 2 Gram each in January 2026.
How to Check a Telegram Username Price
You check the price of a Telegram username by looking at past sales on Fragment: in the list of names, choose the Sold filter and the Price high to low sorting, then type the root of your name into the search bar. The sales history is visible without logging in, but signing up on Fragment, which you need to bid, buy or sell names, requires full identity verification (KYC) with documents.
The page of each Telegram username has two blocks:
- Ownership History: All deals with the price, the date and the buyer’s wallet address.
- Bid History: All auction bids, which show how many buyers competed for the name.
The list of sold usernames and the ownership history of a name. Source: fragment.com
A Transferred line in Ownership History means that the name moved to another wallet outside Fragment, and such a line has no price. The price of such a resale can be found in the name’s history on Getgems.
Important: The Available status and the Minimum Bid field show the starting price of an unsold name, not a deal. For example, @coffee has never been sold, and its minimum bid on Fragment is 90,000 Gram, about $136,000 (October 2026).
How to Estimate Your Username Price in Four Steps
Estimating a Telegram username from past deals takes about 15 minutes and comes down to four steps:
- Find Similar Names: Type the root of your name into the Fragment search and turn on the Sold filter.
- Pick the Deals: Keep names of the same type and length sold in the last year and a half, and count names with digits and underscores only if your name has them too.
- Take the Median: Sort the prices from low to high and take the one in the middle, not the average, because one expensive deal pulls the average up.
- Adjust for Length and Spelling: The shorter and cleaner your name is compared to the sample, the higher the estimate, and the other way around.
For example, half of the “coffee + ending” names sold in 2025-2026 went for 10 Gram or less (a calculation based on Fragment data). The average is 44 Gram, pulled up by a few sales at 100-150 Gram. The result of an estimate is a range, not an exact sum.
If similar names sell for less than 6.3 Gram, putting your name up for sale makes no sense: Fragment fees will take almost the whole amount, and nothing will be left for you.
Why Most Usernames Sell Only Once
Four names from the Fragment top 10 - @news, @auto, @bank and @game - were bought in November 2022, and none of them has been sold on the platform again since then. People buy a collectible Telegram username to use it, so expensive names rarely come back to the market.
Even when a name changes owners, the price often stays hidden. @devil sold on Fragment for 555,555 Gram in October 2025, then moved to a new wallet at least five more times, and every one of those lines in the history says Transferred with no amount. That is why a past deal is a guide, not a guarantee.
Telegram Username Prices in 2026
In 2026, the price of a Telegram username depends more on the type of name than on the date of the deal. The table below shows prices of sold usernames for six types of names, from 2 to 1,000,000 Gram, in Gram and in dollars at the October 2026 rate (Fragment data).
| Type of Name | Example Deals | Price in Gram | Price in Dollars |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dictionary word of 4-6 letters | @news - 994,000, @bank - 850,000, @game - 500,000 | 100,000-1,000,000 | $151,000-$1.5 million |
| Company brand | @meta - 404,000, @nike - 330,000, @gucci - 73,000 | 70,000-410,000 | $106,000-$620,000 |
| Popular first name | @igor - 50,000, @john - 27,000, @alex - 21,110 | 20,000-50,000 | $30,000-$76,000 |
| Word with an ending | @coffeeway - 500, @coffeestore - 100, @coffeeplus - 10 | 10-500 | $15-$760 |
| Name with digits or underscores | @alex_x - 98, @alex01 - 19, @coffee_shop - 11 | 10-100 | $15-$151 |
| Long or random combination | @coffeegigachad - 7, @axaxf - 2 | 2-10 | $3-$15 |
Prices on Fragment are set in Gram, so the dollar value of a name changes together with the rate of the coin.
What to Do If Someone Wants to Buy Your Username
If someone wants to buy your Telegram username, make the deal only through Fragment or Getgems. The platform hands the name to the buyer only after the payment, and a private chat gives you no such protection. A typical scam is to message you privately, offer a price above the market and ask you to send the name first. A collectible username cannot be taken back from someone else’s wallet.
You can find out how much people are ready to pay for your name without selling it:
- Make an Offer on Fragment: A buyer of a regular name with the Taken status sends the owner an anonymous offer for a small non-refundable fee in Gram, and the named amount is not binding. You can buy Gram for the fee with a credit card.
- Offers on Getgems: The page of a collectible Telegram username has an Offers tab with the current offers from buyers.
Important: Do not put a regular name up for auction on Fragment just to check its price: the first bid starts a seven-day auction, and after that you can no longer take the name off sale.
How to Put a Telegram Username Up for Sale
Once your estimate is ready, a regular name is turned into an NFT and put up for auction or sold at a fixed price: the steps and fees are covered in the guide How to Sell a Telegram Username as an NFT →.
