Where can I host a Telegram bot for free?

Does a free Telegram bot really stay online 24/7?

Yes. A polling bot asks Telegram for updates over an outgoing connection, so it needs no web address and nothing puts it to sleep. If it crashes, it starts again on its own.

Do I need a credit card or to renew anything?

No to both. A verified email is all it takes. There is no button to press every few days, no ads to watch and no expiry date. Only a bot with no network traffic for 7 days is stopped, and you can start it again any time.

• No credit card
• No renewals
• No ads
• No sleep timer

How do I deploy my bot?

Get a token from BotFather, pick the starter template, your own GitHub repository or code you upload in the panel, and send /start. Every push to the branch redeploys the bot.

1. 1

   Get a token from BotFather

   Message @BotFather in Telegram, send /newbot and copy the token it gives you.

2. 2

   Pick the template or your code

   In the panel, open Apps, choose Host something and pick the Telegram bot. Use the template, a public or private GitHub repository, or upload your code.

3. 3

   Send /start

   We install and start the bot. The live console shows it log in, and every push redeploys it.

TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN=123456789:AAF-token-from-botfather

That is the only variable a polling bot needs. The starter bot on GitHub deploys as it is.

Can it use webhooks instead of polling?

Yes, on a paid plan from $2 a month, where the bot's web address stays awake. Set TELEGRAM_MODE to webhook and WEBHOOK_URL to the address, and the template registers the webhook at /telegram when it starts. Set WEBHOOK_SECRET as well, and the bot refuses updates that do not carry it.

TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN=123456789:AAF-token-from-botfather
TELEGRAM_MODE=webhook
WEBHOOK_URL=https://helper-bot.fadehost.app
WEBHOOK_SECRET=a-long-random-string

Telegram delivers webhooks only to ports 443, 80, 88 and 8443 over HTTPS with a valid certificate, and the bot's https://name.fadehost.app address meets that as it is. Polling stays the right choice for most bots.

Which libraries work?

Anything that talks to the Bot API, installed from your requirements.txt or package.json. On Python that is aiogram, python-telegram-bot, pyTelegramBotAPI, Telethon and Pyrogram; on Node.js grammY, Telegraf and node-telegram-bot-api. Bun, Deno, Go, Java, PHP and Ruby run too.

• aiogram Python
• python-telegram-bot Python
• pyTelegramBotAPI Python
• Telethon and Pyrogram Python
• grammY Node.js
• Telegraf Node.js
• Any Python bot Python
• Any Node.js bot Node.js

What comes with every bot?

The whole panel, on the free plan too: the live console, the crash doctor, deploy history with rollback, environment variables, scheduled commands, the usage chart and the file manager.

• Push to deploy

  Every push to the branch reinstalls and restarts the bot.

• Private repositories

  Picked through the FadeHost GitHub App, nothing to paste.

• Live console

  Everything the bot prints, as it prints it, with search.

• Crash doctor

  The cause of a crash loop and the fix, in plain words.

• Deploy history and rollback

  Pin the bot to any earlier commit in one click.

• Environment variables

  The token and the rest, masked, in a table in the panel.

• Scheduled commands

  Up to ten cron jobs inside the bot's container.

• Usage chart

  CPU and memory over the last 24 hours.

• Files and SFTP

  See and change what the bot keeps under /data.

• A web address

  https://name.fadehost.app for a webhook or a dashboard.

• Daily backups

  Of /data, kept 7 days, $1 a month per bot.

• MySQL on paid plans

  Included from $2 a month, one click to create.

• Four regions on paid plans

  France, Montreal, Oregon or Singapore.

• Locked down

  Non-root, hard memory and CPU limits, restarted if it falls over.

How is it different from other free hosts?

More disk for your bot, and nothing to do to keep it running.

Checked on each host's own page on November 1, 2026.

What does it cost when the bot outgrows free?

From $2 a month, on the same bill as your game servers and other apps. Starter carries one bot with 1 GB and a full vCPU, a web address that stays awake and no traffic limit. Yearly is ten months for twelve.

Bots sit on the same subscription as your game servers and other apps. See every plan

What happens when something breaks?

The bot starts again on its own, and the crash doctor names the cause in plain words, such as a token Telegram rejected or a missing package. A push that breaks the bot rolls back in one click from its deploy history.

More questions

What a bot may and may not do is in the terms.

Read on

• Free bot hosting, explainedWhat the free plan includes, what sleeps and what does not, and the one stop a free bot can meet.
• 24/7, and what that takesWhat stops a bot in practice, and the three ways that keep one answering.
• Telegram Mini App hostingThe bot and the page it opens, on one https address with the certificate handled.
• Discord bot hostingThe same runtime set up for Discord, with ready-made bots.
• WhatsApp bot hostingA bot on Meta's official Cloud API, with a template that checks the webhook signature.
• App hostingWeb apps, APIs, workers and static sites from a repository, on the same runtime.
• App hosting documentationCreate an app, the PORT variable, build modes, rollback, schedules, backups and the limits per plan.
• The starter bot on GitHubThe grammY template: index.js, the handlers in src/commands.js and the environment it reads.