🆚 Instagram vs. Telegram

📈 Instagram is much more popular than Telegram.
🌎 Instagram is more popular in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom.
🌍 Telegram is more popular in Russia, Thailand, and Uzbekistan.

Statistics based on 3.6M+ analyzed websites. About this data

Instagram

Type

Social media platform

Instant messaging app

About

Instagram is a photo and video sharing social media platform owned by Meta Platforms.

It allows users to post photos and short videos with built-in filters and effects, share disappearing Stories and Reels, send direct messages, and use hashtags and geotags for content discovery.

Telegram is a cloud-based messaging app for mobile and desktop platforms focused on security, speed, and privacy.

It provides voice and video calls, unlimited cloud storage for regular chats and media across devices, end-to-end encryption for Secret Chats, supports groups and channels with up to 200,000 members, and allows bots and mini-apps to extend functionality.

Headquarters

Menlo Park, California, United States

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Website

instagram.com #5

telegram.org #21

Pricing

Free ✔️

Free version ✔️

Telegram Premium Varies by country, $2.49-$4.99/month

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Instagram social media platform is 14 times more popular than Telegram.

Total websites

Market share

Social Media

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Instagram is more popular in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom, while Telegram is more popular in Russia, Thailand, and Uzbekistan.

United States

Germany

United Kingdom

Japan

Spain

Italy

France

Brazil

India

Russia

Awards

🥇 Most popular in Brazil in the Social Media category.
🥇 Most popular in Indonesia in the Social Media category.
🥇 Most popular in Iran in the Social Media category.
🥇 Most popular in Korea in the Social Media category.
🥇 Most popular in Chile in the Social Media category.

🥇 Most popular in Russia in the Instant Messaging category.
🥇 Most popular in Ukraine in the Instant Messaging category.
🥇 Most popular in Iran in the Instant Messaging category.
🥇 Most popular in Belarus in the Instant Messaging category.
🥇 Most popular in Uzbekistan in the Instant Messaging category.

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Instagram is more popular than Telegram in all market segments.

Business

Online Shopping

Marketing/Merchandising

Education/Reference

Blogs/Wiki

Travel

Entertainment

Internet Services

Health

Sports

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name

Rank

#13

#16

#17

#23

p**nhub.com

#26

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Name

Rank

#108

#204

#259

#277

#329