Adsgram Alternatives: Monetize a Telegram Mini App

What are the best Adsgram alternatives for a Telegram Mini App?

The main Adsgram alternatives for a Telegram Mini App are other ad networks built for Mini Apps (Monetag, TADS and RichAds), Telegram’s own tools (Stars payments for digital goods, Stars affiliate programs, and ad revenue sharing in your bot), outside affiliate programs, and an offerwall that lets users earn your in-app currency by completing offers. Ad networks pay you per view or per click, Stars pay you when users buy, and an offerwall pays you per completed offer. Most Mini Apps that earn steadily combine one ad network with Stars and, if they have a currency, an offerwall.

This page compares the options. Every rule and payout term below was checked on October 22, 2026, on each provider’s own site or docs, and all of them can change, so confirm before you sign up.

What Adsgram is and how it pays

Adsgram’s documentation calls it “an advertising and monetization network for the Telegram ecosystem”, with separate publisher programs for Mini Apps, channels and bots. For a Mini App, the Adsgram publisher docs list three formats:

• Reward: a full-screen ad the user chooses to watch, after which your app gives a bonus.
• Interstitial: a full-screen block the user can close or tap through.
• Task: a native format where the user completes a task, such as subscribing to a channel or opening another Mini App, for a reward.

Reward and Interstitial pay per 1,000 impressions (CPM), and Task pays per click (CPC). Rates depend on the user’s country. Earnings land in an internal wallet in USDT (Tether), which replaced TON as the payout currency on September 23, 2024. Withdrawal rules are specific: between the 1st and the 5th of each month you can request any amount from 10 USDT, after the 5th the minimum is 150 USDT, and requests are processed in 1 to 3 business days.

You add a script, call Adsgram.init with a block ID, and call show() from a tap, which returns a promise. For larger apps, Adsgram also offers an optional server-side reward URL that receives the user’s Telegram ID when a reward is earned, which is safer than trusting the client.

Adsgram moderation rules worth knowing

The Adsgram moderation page rejects apps where every click leads to an ad, where users must watch ads to perform any action, or where users are forced to click rather than view. Basic functions must work without ads, the app must say clearly when an ad earns a bonus, and rewards must not be “unrealistic and excessively high”. Apps that promise payouts need public proof, such as a pinned message, leaderboard or payout channel. These rules are a good baseline whichever network you pick.

Other Telegram Mini App ad networks

A Mini App is a web page that Telegram opens inside its apps, so any network that serves ads through JavaScript can technically run there. The three below have Mini App products that we could verify on their own sites. We left out networks we could not confirm were active. If you are new to the model, What is an ad network? explains how they buy and sell inventory.

Monetag

Monetag publishes an SDK specifically for Telegram Mini Apps. Its Rewarded Interstitial documentation describes a full-screen ad users choose to watch for a reward, and the SDK also offers a Rewarded Popup (a tap opens the advertiser’s page in a new tab) and an In-App Interstitial shown at moments you choose. You add a script tag with your zone ID or install the npm package, then call a show function that returns a promise. Two details matter: the promise also resolves on an early close, so the docs say to reward only when reward_event_type is valued, and zones can send reward postbacks to your backend. Monetag pays on a CPM basis that varies by country, device and placement, and its guidelines ask you to tell users what the reward is and avoid misleading placements.

TADS

TADS describes itself as “an ad network in Telegram, specifically designed for mini apps”. Its publisher page lists in-app banners, fullscreen and rewarded ads, paid on CPM or CPC, with an SDK it says takes about 30 minutes to set up. Its main format is a text and image block with a product description and logo. TADS does not publish payout terms on its public pages, so ask its team before you integrate.

RichAds

RichAds, an ad network running since 2018, sells native placements in Mini Apps. Its guide to monetizing Mini Apps (updated September 2026) describes ads that look similar to in-page push ads and appear over your app content, paid per click. Setup is a JavaScript snippet in your page’s head, with your Mini App registered as a traffic source in the dashboard. The guide says payouts go out twice a month, with a $10 minimum for e-wallets and $500 for bank transfers.

Telegram’s own ways to earn

Stars for digital goods

If you sell anything digital inside your Mini App (extra lives, boosts, premium features, coins), you must use Telegram Stars. Section 6.2 of the Bot Platform Developer Terms says digital goods must be sold “exclusively through the exchange of Telegram Stars”, and Telegram’s payments for digital goods guide says that otherwise Telegram cannot show your bot or Mini App to mobile users, and that crypto is not accepted for digital goods. Under section 6.2.4, developers receive the equivalent of 0.013 USD in rewards per Star, and Stars may take up to 21 days to become available. How to monetize a Telegram bot walks through the Stars checkout, and Telegram Stars vs offerwall compares Stars with earned currency.

Telegram ad revenue sharing

Telegram’s revenue page says channel and bot owners can receive 50% of the revenue from ads displayed in their channels and bots. Its sponsored messages documentation says bot ads are displayed above the chat. That means the ad sits in your bot’s chat, not inside your Mini App’s web page, so it adds a little revenue from people who open the bot but does not replace an in-app ad network. Never reward users for viewing or tapping these ads: Telegram’s Content Creator Rewards terms (section 5.1) treat activity solicited through monetary purchase or explicit requests to interact with sponsored messages as invalid.

Affiliate programs inside and outside Telegram

Telegram runs its own affiliate programs. A Mini App developer can open a program so others promote the app for a commission on Star purchases, and any Telegram user can join programs and share referral links, with commissions paid as Stars. Telegram warns that sending referral links to strangers or posting them in public groups can lead to temporary limits. For a Mini App, the two sides work differently: you can join other programs to recommend apps your users would want, or open your own so channels promote you.

Outside affiliate programs (a VPN, a game, a course) can also link from your Mini App, with one Telegram-specific limit. Section 7.4 of the developer terms bars Mini Apps from promoting cryptoassets not based on TON, so most exchange and wallet affiliate offers are off the table. Disclose every paid link; Affiliate disclosure rules covers how, and Affiliate marketing on Telegram covers channel promotion.

An offerwall for your in-app currency

An offerwall lists tasks from advertisers, such as installing a game and reaching a level, signing up for a service, or answering a survey. You earn when the advertiser confirms the result, and you credit part of it to the user in your Mini App’s own coins. It is a different trade from a rewarded ad: fewer users complete an offer, but each completion is worth far more than a single view. Offerwall vs rewarded video compares the two in detail.

In a Mini App the wall opens as a web page, usually in the browser with Telegram’s openLink, through a link your server signs for the user. Rewards reach your server through a signed postback, never through the client. Add an offerwall to a Telegram Mini App has the code, and Best offerwall for Telegram Mini Apps is the checklist for choosing a provider. Telegram’s terms do not name offerwalls, so keep within the rules that do apply: no non-TON crypto offers, no misleading earning claims, and Stars for anything you sell.

Telegram Mini App monetization options compared

How to choose for your Mini App

• Tap and clicker games with a soft currency: rewarded ads for small, frequent boosts, plus an offerwall for users who want a big chunk of coins at once. Sell premium items for Stars.
• Utility Mini Apps (AI tools, converters, trackers): Stars subscriptions for a premium tier, an interstitial at natural breaks at most, and an offerwall only if you have credits users want.
• Content and community Mini Apps: Telegram ad revenue in the bot, Stars for paid content, and carefully chosen affiliate links with disclosure.
• Apps with a mostly young audience: skip offerwalls with a minimum age above your users’ age, and keep ads to formats your network allows for that audience.

Keep one exchange rate across every source

If users earn the same coins from ads, offers and Stars purchases, price them from one rate, or users will learn which path is a bargain and your economy drifts.

Shareable Mini Apps attract fake accounts, and every source above pays less or claws back when traffic is invalid. Stop multi-accounting and VPN abuse covers the checks.

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