Telegram Can Host Your Bot. Should You Give Up Your VPS?

In July 2026, Telegram began inviting some of its contest participants into a private Serverless test. The pitch is straightforward: put your bot's code and database on Telegram's infrastructure. On October 6, Mini App hosting joined the package, so the interface can live there too.

I got access, and I already had two VPSs, one in Finland and one in Germany. That gave me a practical question: would I still want either server for a small Telegram app?

AI assisted with the prototype, benchmark tooling, editing and English adaptation. The measurements come from the test environments described below; the code and raw results are available for inspection.

What “serverless” actually changes

Your code still runs on a server. The difference is who looks after it. With a VPS, I prepare the runtime, start the application and arrange for it to recover if the process stops. With Telegram Serverless,...

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