How Much Does Telegram Lead Generation Actually Cost?

Nobody quotes the full number. Tools advertise $25/month while the real monthly bill hides in proxies, accounts, and manager hours. Here is the honest math.

The components

Accounts: dedicated SIMs or virtual numbers, a few dollars each, replaced periodically after bans. Proxies: one per account, $2-4 monthly each - shared proxies are false economy, one ban cascades. Tooling: parser, warm-up, CRM seats. Manager time: the biggest line, priced at your hourly rate against hours spent triaging, replying, and following up.

A five-account setup typically lands around $100-200/month all-in before labor. Fifty accounts scale roughly linearly on infra, sublinearly on labor if scoring and auto-replies work.

Our full breakdown with current numbers: https://www.24go.site/blog/skolko-stoit-lidogeneratsiya-v-telegram?locale=en - and the 2026 cost tables: https://www.24go.site/blog/telegram-lead-generation-cost-breakdown-2026?locale=en

The only metric that matters

Cost per closed deal. Not per lead, not per reply. Add one month of full costs, divide by deals closed from that cohort. If the number exceeds your margin, fix conversion before spending more - usually the leak is slow HOT response or no follow-up, not volume.

Honest limits

Early months look terrible on this metric because pipeline hasn't matured - B2B deals close in weeks. Judge month one on cost per qualified reply, month three on cost per deal. Teams that panic at month-one unit economics kill working setups.

And the cheapest channel is retention: a replied lead costs 5-10x less than a new one. Follow-up sequences are the highest-ROI line item most teams never budget.

What is your true cost per deal right now - all-in, with labor?