If you are searching for a Kommo Telegram alternative because you sell inside Telegram as an IB or forex affiliate, the two products start from different places. Scalegram is the Telegram CRM for IBs and forex affiliates: one AI bot on your own Telegram answers every lead in the language it arrived in, checks the deposit against the broker's own records over a read-only API, opens the paid group and files the client. Kommo is a general sales CRM with a shared chat inbox, and Telegram is one of the channels it connects.
The difference shows up in three places: who does the answering, what is checked before someone gets in, and how the bill grows.
What Kommo says it sells
The Kommo home page describes an "All-in-one AI CRM to automate WhatsApp, TikTok, and Instagram conversations, appointments, and workflows". Telegram appears in the row of channels on that page, next to WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook and TikTok. The product menu lists a CRM pipeline, a chat inbox, Salesbot, Kommo AI, broadcasting and booking.
The Kommo Telegram integration page says the connection "enables you to manage conversations, create leads from incoming chats, and use automation to provide round-the-clock service". It lists lead creation ("Automatically generate new leads whenever someone messages you on Telegram"), replying to Telegram messages inside the lead card, chat history ("Keep all conversations saved and accessible within your CRM") and Salesbot to "answer FAQs, collect customer data, and send invoices". Setup is three steps: create a bot in Telegram, copy the bot's API token, paste it in Kommo.
That is a clean, honest description of a support and sales inbox. A team that already runs Kommo for WhatsApp or Instagram can add Telegram to the same pipeline in a few minutes, and that is a real advantage. Scalegram does not try to be a general CRM for every channel.
What Kommo costs
Kommo prices per user. The Kommo pricing page lists Base at $25 per user a month, Advanced at $35 and Pro at $45, plus a custom Enterprise plan. It says monthly payment "is not currently available" and the minimum subscription period is 6 months, so Base is billed at $150 per user for six months. Each plan carries a lead limit per user (2,500 on Base, 5,000 on Advanced, 10,000 on Pro) and a monthly allowance of AI credits per user (750, 1,250 and 2,250). The Telegram accounts row reads "Unlimited" on every plan.
The same page puts broadcasting, no-code bots and "Up to 3 AI agents" on Advanced, and "Up to 50 AI agents" on Pro. So the automation that answers leads sits one or two plans up, and every seat you add is charged again. At the Pro price of $45 per user a month on the pricing page, ten people on the team come to $450 a month before anything else.
Scalegram is priced by counts, not by people. Lite is $99 a month with one bot, one Telegram account, one tracked link, one seat and 10,000 clients. Scalegram is $999 a month with unlimited bots, accounts, links, seats and clients. Every feature is on both plans, and the pricing section lists the counts. For a solo IB or a channel owner with one helper, per-seat pricing is small either way. For an agency with a dozen people reading the same leads, a flat price behaves differently.
What Scalegram is built to do
Scalegram starts from one sale. A lead arrives from an ad or a post, signs up with the broker, deposits, and the owner has to know that before opening the paid group. The whole product hangs off that sequence.
- The bot answers every message in the language it arrived in, from the product knowledge, saved replies, pictures, PDFs and cloned voice you gave it.
- An AI condition reads the conversation and decides whether the person is ready to buy, still deciding or not a buyer, and each gets a different branch.
- The ready branch sends your broker link and asks for the email or account number when it needs one.
- The bot looks that email up in the broker's IB portal or the prop firm CRM over a read-only API: whether the account exists, whether a payment completed, which plan, whether KYC passed. Every call is a GET.
- When the records say yes, it approves the join request for the paid group, writes UID, email, broker, deposit and a dated note onto the client card, and moves the stage forward.
- Anyone who goes quiet gets a follow-up that cancels itself the moment they reply.
The flow is laid out in the AI bot for Telegram leads guide, and the deposit check has its own page: how to verify a broker deposit automatically.
Side by side
| Question | Kommo, from its own pages | Scalegram |
|---|---|---|
| Main job | General sales CRM with a multi-channel chat inbox | Autopilot sale for IBs and affiliates, with a Telegram CRM behind it |
| How Telegram connects | A Telegram bot: create it, paste its API token | Your personal Telegram account (phone and code), read-only, with the AI bot running on it |
| Who answers the lead | Your team in the inbox, plus Salesbot and AI agents on the plans that list them | The AI bot, in the lead's language, at any hour |
| Chat history | "Saved and accessible within your CRM" | No message is ever stored |
| Broker deposit check | Not described on the pages read | Looked up live in the broker's records, read-only |
| Ad tracking | UTM tracking, a Meta conversion API and a TikTok events API, per its pricing page | Tracked links for Telegram channel joins, reported server side to Meta, TikTok and Snapchat |
| Pricing basis | Per user, 6 month minimum, from $25 per user a month | By counts: $99 or $999 a month, monthly |
Where the difference shows up
Who verifies "I already deposited"
In an inbox product that message lands on an agent, who opens the broker portal and checks. In Scalegram the bot asks for the email, looks it up at the broker and answers from the record. The lead who is telling the truth gets into the group at 3 am, and the one who is not gets a plain answer. Kommo's Telegram page describes collecting customer data and sending invoices with Salesbot, which is a different job from confirming a deposit at a broker.
Conversations kept or not kept
Kommo keeps the chat: its Telegram page promises all conversations "saved and accessible within your CRM", and for a support team that is the feature. For an IB the same archive is a liability to hold, full of screenshots, account numbers and emails. Scalegram was built the other way. There is no message table in the product, and the bot reads an earlier chat only when the per-bot Earlier Conversations switch is on, for that one reply. The reasoning is in why a Telegram CRM should not store messages.
Bot connection against account connection
Kommo's setup steps for Telegram create a bot and paste its token into Kommo. Scalegram connects your own Telegram account, imports every contact and everyone who ever wrote to you as client cards, and the conversation stays where your leads already are. The connection is read-only: no bulk sending, no drip campaigns, and the one write it can make is saving an address-book contact when you click it.
From ad click to deposit
Most IB leads are bought with ads, and the ad platform stops at the click. Kommo covers part of this: its pricing page lists UTM tracking, a Meta conversion API and a TikTok events API that send conversion events such as leads and purchases from Kommo. Its UTM line names Click-to-WhatsApp ads, Instagram ads, web forms and website chat buttons, and Telegram channel joins are not in that list. Scalegram is built around that gap: every link gets a tracked address with UTM parameters, fbclid, gclid, ttclid and sccid are read, and each join is reported server side to Meta, TikTok and Snapchat, so the deposit is tied to the ad that bought it. For that problem see the best Telegram tracker list.
Who should pick which
Pick Kommo if your company already sells over WhatsApp, Instagram and TikTok, wants one pipeline and one inbox for a sales team, and treats Telegram as one more channel. Its own pages describe that job, and its pricing page offers a 14 day free trial.
Pick Scalegram if you are an IB, forex affiliate, prop firm affiliate or channel owner and the sale ends with a checked deposit and an opened door. It runs on your own Grok, OpenAI or DeepSeek key, and it does not send signals, give trading advice or promise results. How it works shows the flow, and the Telegram CRM for IBs guide covers the setup. For the wider field, read the best Telegram CRM 2026 list.
Sources
- Kommo home page, Kommo, checked 26 September 2026
- Telegram integration, Kommo, checked 26 September 2026
- Pricing, Kommo, checked 26 September 2026
A CRM inbox gives your team every channel in one place. A Telegram CRM for IBs answers the lead, checks the broker and opens the door.
— The Scalegram Team
Key takeaways
- Kommo is a multi-channel sales CRM priced per user with a 6 month minimum; Telegram is one channel it connects through a bot token.
- Scalegram is an AI autopilot for the IB and affiliate sale, priced by counts at $99 or $999 a month.
- Scalegram checks the email against the broker's records over a read-only API before it opens the paid group, and stores no messages.
- Choose Kommo for a team selling across many messengers, and Scalegram for IB and affiliate sales inside Telegram.
Frequently asked questions
What is the best Kommo alternative for Telegram sales as an IB?
For an IB, forex affiliate or channel owner whose sale ends with a deposit, Scalegram: it answers in the lead's language, checks the deposit against the broker's records read-only and opens the paid group. For a sales team that works WhatsApp, Instagram and Telegram in one inbox, Kommo is built for that.
Does Kommo support Telegram?
Yes. Kommo's own Telegram integration page describes a built-in connection where you create a bot in Telegram, copy its API token and paste it into Kommo.
What does Kommo cost?
Its pricing page lists Base at $25, Advanced at $35 and Pro at $45 per user a month, with a 6 month minimum subscription. Scalegram's Lite plan is $99 a month and the full Scalegram plan is $999 a month.
Does Scalegram store my chats?
No. There is no message table in the product. The bot can read an earlier chat for a single reply when the Earlier Conversations switch is on, and it is never written down.
Put one bot on your own Telegram
Scalegram answers every lead in the language it arrived in, checks the deposit against the broker's own records, opens the paid group and files the client. Lite starts at $99 a month.