LaunchPass and Scalegram both put a gate in front of a group chat, but the gate opens for different reasons. LaunchPass, per its own home page, lets a creator "charge for access to Discord, Telegram & Slack": a member pays a subscription and the payment itself opens the channel. Scalegram is the Telegram CRM for IBs and forex affiliates, where nobody pays you anything: a lead opens an account with your broker or buys a prop firm challenge, and the group is the reward once that deposit shows up in the broker's own records. If members pay you directly, LaunchPass is built for that. If entry depends on what a broker confirms, Scalegram is the tool.
What LaunchPass sells
LaunchPass is a membership billing layer that sits in front of Discord, Telegram and Slack. Its home page lists all three platforms by name: role-based access on Discord, groups and channels on Telegram, and paid access to "up to 50 private channels" on Slack. Billing runs "daily, weekly, monthly, yearly or one-time," and a creator can offer "one-week, two-week and one month free trials" before the card charges.
On the Telegram-specific page, LaunchPass describes the same mechanism in Telegram terms: "charge for access to groups & channels on Telegram," "connect new and existing Telegram communities," and "customize your invite page." The Telegram page puts setup at "less than 5 minutes": connect Telegram, attach Stripe, publish the invite page.
Two plans run the billing. Basic is free, with no transaction fee, unlimited free members and a customizable invite page. Premium is $29 a month plus a 3.5% transaction fee, with a 14-day free trial, and adds one-time and recurring billing, multi-tier access, free trials and coupons, an activity dashboard, automated subscriber plan management, auto kick or role removal on cancellation, affiliate integration and 24/7 live chat support, all per the home page. Stripe itself adds "2.9% + 30 cents" on top of LaunchPass's own fee, the page notes, since Stripe is the processor underneath.
What Scalegram does instead
Scalegram takes no payment from members; in the IB model there is none to take. The money moves between the client and the broker, and the work is proving that it moved.
It starts with the conversation. One AI bot on your own Telegram answers every message in the language it arrived in, using the product knowledge, saved replies, pictures, PDFs and cloned voice you gave it, on your own Grok, OpenAI or DeepSeek key. An AI condition reads the chat and decides whether this person is ready, still deciding, or not a buyer. The guide to an AI bot that answers Telegram leads covers that part end to end.
When someone is ready, the bot sends your broker link, walks them through signing up and asks for the email or account number. Under Integrations you paste your broker's IB portal or prop firm CRM address and an API key once, and mid-conversation the bot looks that email up live: whether the account exists, whether a payment completed, how much, which plan, whether KYC passed. Every call is a GET; Scalegram has no code path that writes into the broker's system. How to verify a broker deposit automatically walks through the exchange.
Once the records say yes, the bot approves the join request, writes UID, email, broker and deposit onto the client card, and moves the stage to Deposited. A queued follow-up chases whoever went quiet. If the click came from an ad, the deposit is reported server side to Meta, TikTok and Snapchat with the click id carried on the tracked link.
Scalegram vs LaunchPass side by side
| LaunchPass | Scalegram | |
|---|---|---|
| What opens the door | A card charge to you through Stripe, per the home page | A deposit or purchase confirmed in the broker's or prop firm's own records |
| Who collects money | You, minus LaunchPass's fee and Stripe's processing fee | Nobody through Scalegram; the client pays the broker directly |
| Fee model | Free Basic plan, or $29 a month plus 3.5% on Premium, plus Stripe's 2.9% + 30 cents, per the home page | Flat monthly price with no cut of anything the client deposits |
| Platforms billed | Discord, Telegram and Slack, per the home page | Telegram only |
| Answering leads | An invite page and a checkout form for plans and trials | One AI bot replies in the lead's language, qualifies, sends the link and follows up |
| Verifying money moved | Stripe confirms the charge at checkout | The bot checks the broker's IB portal or prop firm CRM over a read-only API |
| Client records | Dashboard of subscribers, plans and activity, per the home page | Client cards from your own Telegram account with stages, tags and notes; no message is stored |
| Ad attribution | Not described on the home or Telegram pages | UTMs plus fbclid, gclid, ttclid and sccid, joins and deposits reported server side to Meta, TikTok and Snapchat |
| Pricing model | Free tier, or a flat fee plus a percentage of what members pay | Flat: Lite $99 a month, full plan $999 a month |
Where LaunchPass is the better fit
You charge for the channel itself: a paid Discord server, a Telegram group with premium content, a Slack workspace members pay to join. LaunchPass's own pages cover that job directly, with recurring billing, free trials, coupons, multi-tier access and automatic removal on cancellation, all wired to Stripe. It also spans three platforms at once, which matters if a community lives across Discord and Telegram together.
Scalegram has none of that. It runs no payment gateway, sets no subscriber price, takes no cut of anything, because no member money ever passes through it. If the channel's fee is the product, LaunchPass is the right purchase and Scalegram is not an alternative to it.
Where Scalegram is the better LaunchPass alternative
You are an IB, a forex affiliate or a prop firm affiliate, and your group costs the member nothing directly. The rule for entry is a funded account or a purchased challenge under your referral link, not a subscription fee. No Stripe charge tells LaunchPass that a deposit landed at a third-party broker, because LaunchPass was never built to look there.
The verification step is the whole job
On LaunchPass, proof arrives on its own because Stripe confirms the charge at checkout. On a broker deposit, no gateway tells anyone anything. Someone opens the IB portal, searches the email, reads the status and goes back to the chat, in several languages, on a busy day. Scalegram does that lookup inside the conversation and answers from the broker's own records. With an affiliate-scoped key it can also list who under your referral has bought and who has not. The Telegram CRM for IBs guide covers the daily routine.
The lead is answered before the door matters
A membership checkout shows plans and takes a card. An IB lead asks which broker and what happens after they sign up. Scalegram's bot holds that conversation in your words, hands hard cases to you and mutes itself, and stops for a single yes or no tap in your Telegram wherever you placed an Ask Me block.
Telegram's side of the door is the same for both
Both products approve entry through the same mechanism on Telegram. The Telegram Bot API sends a chat_join_request update when a user asks to join, and approveChatJoinRequest needs a bot that is an administrator with the can_invite_users right. The difference sits before that call: a cleared Stripe charge in one product, a confirmed broker record in the other.
Pricing, as read today
LaunchPass's Basic plan is free with no transaction fee. Premium is $29 a month plus 3.5% on every charge, with Stripe adding "2.9% + 30 cents" underneath, per the home page. A creator running $30 monthly subscriptions on Premium gives up roughly $2 of every charge to LaunchPass and Stripe combined before a payout lands.
Scalegram has two flat plans. Lite is $99 a month with one of each item and a 10,000-client limit. The full plan is $999 a month with everything unlimited. Every feature is on both plans; only the counts change, and card payment runs through Whop as merchant of record. The pricing section lists each line. LaunchPass's fee scales with what members pay each month; Scalegram's price is flat because no member payment ever runs through it.
Which one to pick
Pick LaunchPass if members pay you directly for a Discord, Telegram or Slack membership and you want that billing, the free trials and the cancellation logic handled for a monthly fee plus a percentage. Pick Scalegram if entry is earned by a deposit with your broker or a purchase at your prop firm: it answers in the lead's language, checks the deposit against the broker's own records read-only, stores no messages, and reports deposits to Meta, TikTok and Snapchat server side. The best Telegram CRM list for 2026 places Scalegram against the other tools in the category. Scalegram sends no signals, gives no trading advice and promises no results.
Sources
- LaunchPass home page, LaunchPass, checked 28 September 2026
- LaunchPass for Telegram, LaunchPass, checked 28 September 2026
- Telegram Bot API, Telegram, checked 28 September 2026
A membership tool collects money from your members and pays you a share back. An IB's group should open when the broker's own records say the account is funded. Those are two different jobs, and each product does one of them.
— The Scalegram Team
Key takeaways
- LaunchPass sells paid membership access to Discord, Telegram and Slack, free on its Basic plan or $29 a month plus 3.5% on Premium, with Stripe's own fee on top.
- Scalegram collects no money from members. Its AI bot answers the lead, checks the deposit against the broker's or prop firm's records over a read-only API, then approves the join request and files the client.
- LaunchPass's fee scales with what members pay; Scalegram is a flat $99 or $999 a month regardless of what a client deposits with the broker.
- If members pay you directly, use LaunchPass. If access depends on a broker deposit, Scalegram replaces the manual portal check.
Frequently asked questions
Is Scalegram a LaunchPass alternative?
Only for one case: a group whose entry condition is a deposit with your broker or a purchase at your prop firm, not a payment to you. Scalegram verifies that in the broker's own records and approves the join request. It runs no payment gateway and takes no cut, so for a paid Discord, Telegram or Slack membership, LaunchPass remains the right tool.
Can LaunchPass verify a broker deposit?
Its pages, read on 28 September 2026, describe subscription and one-time billing settled through Stripe, not a lookup in a broker's IB portal. A broker deposit is not something the platform can see.
Does Scalegram take a cut of what a client deposits?
No. Scalegram never touches client money. The client pays the broker directly; Scalegram only checks the broker's records and opens the group once the deposit is confirmed there.
Can I use LaunchPass and Scalegram together?
Yes. They serve separate purposes. LaunchPass can sell a paid Discord or Slack membership while Scalegram answers broker leads on Telegram, verifies deposits and opens the free client group tied to your referral.
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.