TG Gifts25 canonical questions, answered
How much is a Plush Pepe?
Plush Pepes have no buy-now floor on Fragment right now: the collection is listed only as timed sales, and the cheapest timed sale is 7,000 GRAM. Portals lists the same collection at 6,500 GRAM, 7.1% lower (checked 2026-11-02 23:25 UTC). A specific Pepe is priced by its model and backdrop, not by the collection figure.
Proof: /c/plushpepe
How are Telegram gift prices calculated?
In this order: the cheapest listing of the same model right now; if none is listed, the median of that model's recent sales; otherwise the collection floor. If the cheapest listing is more than 1.5 times the median of at least three recent sales, the estimate follows the sales instead, because an asking price is not a price.
Proof: /how-we-value
What is the TGGI index?
The TG Gifts Index is one daily number for the gift market: the liquidity-weighted change of Fragment floors across collections that trade often enough. Base 100 on 2026-10-18; the official close on 2026-11-02 was 108.86 with 98 constituents, +0.18% on the day and +2.23% over seven days. It is chain-linked and published free as JSON and CSV.
Proof: /index
Why is Portals cheaper than Fragment?
They are different order books. A seller on Portals sets a price without seeing Fragment's, the venue holds gifts in its own inventory until withdrawal, and the two have different fees and buyers, so prices drift apart. A live check on 2026-10-28 found other markets listing the same collections a median 13% lower than Fragment, with 37 of 101 collections more than 15% lower. It is a listing gap, not an error.
Proof: /how-we-value · /floors
How do I sell a Telegram gift?
Only an upgraded gift can be sold, so upgrade it in Telegram first. Then list it on Fragment at a price you choose, or on another venue; Fragment takes a 5% commission on resale. Price against the floor of your model, not the collection, and expect a wait: these are thin markets. We never hold your item or your funds.
Proof: /how-we-value · /craft
Are Telegram gifts a good investment?
We do not answer that with a yes, because no one can promise a resale price or a time to sell. These are thin, illiquid markets: money can be locked in an item for days or weeks. In our own public record, 17 of 35 hunts sold, and none of the 5 confirmed gift snipes sold above the alert price: three at it, two below.
Proof: /track-record
What is a floor price?
The floor is the cheapest buy-now listing of a collection on Fragment, with auctions excluded. It is an asking price, not a sale price, and a single cheap listing can move it for a day: Resistance Dogs showed a 72,000 GRAM floor on 2026-10-20 and 1,500 GRAM on 2026-10-25, with zero recent sales at close.
Which Telegram gift collection is the most expensive?
By buy-now floor, Algorithm Cups at 3,450 GRAM on 2026-11-02. Collections listed only as timed sales are counted separately: Plush Pepes from 7,000 GRAM, Durov's Caps from 464 GRAM, Precious Peaches from 295 GRAM. The cheapest collection with listings that day was Xmas Stockings at 5 GRAM. Mixing timed sales into the floor ranking would compare a timer with a price.
Proof: /floors
How accurate are your valuations?
For usernames we publish a median error of 28.2% (95% interval 21.8–42.8%), measured on 170 sales the model never saw, labelled preliminary; 37.1% of estimates land within ±20%. That replaced an earlier 5.2% figure measured on the data the model was tuned on. For gifts the live record is a counter, 9 settled of 30, so no percentage is published yet.
How often are gift prices updated?
New Fragment listings are read about every 15 seconds. Each collection's floor is re-read in rotation, roughly every 15 minutes, so a given collection may be a few minutes old. Daily files are written once per UTC day, using the first reading after 00:00 UTC. The index is published from 01:00 UTC and frozen at 01:05 UTC.
Proof: /api · /index#method
What does rarity 10‰ mean?
Ten per mille means about 1% of the collection carries that model: 10 in every thousand. It is a fact about supply, not a price: a rare model with no buyers can be worth less than a common one that trades daily. That is why rarity alone never sets an estimate here; the model's own floor and sales do.
Proof: /c/plushpepe/cozy-galaxy
What is an upgraded gift?
An upgrade turns a plain gift into a unique collectible with a randomly assigned model, backdrop and symbol. Only upgraded gifts are tradable on-chain, so only they have a market price. The upgrade is paid in Stars inside Telegram, and its cost is not in our data: read it in the app, then compare it with the floor of the model you might get.
Proof: /craft
What fees do I pay when I sell a gift?
Fragment charges a 5% commission when a gift is resold, and every profit figure on this site already subtracts it. Network fees and Fragment's one-time conversion fee are not included. Other venues set their own: Portals states a 5% marketplace commission in its app, with loyalty discounts. A 5% gap between price and estimate is zero after the fee.
Proof: /how-we-value
What is Fragment?
Fragment is Telegram's official marketplace for usernames, phone numbers and collectible gifts. It is the only price source behind every number on this site, which keeps one consistent definition of a floor and creates one known blind spot: other markets can list the same gift cheaper. We are not affiliated with Fragment, Telegram or TON Foundation.
Proof: /guide/what-is-fragment
What is the difference between GRAM and TON?
GRAM is the current name of the coin of the TON network; TON is the network and the former ticker. Every price here is quoted in GRAM, and no USD conversion is applied to floors or to the index, because a conversion would add a second moving number to a price question. If you see dollars elsewhere, that is someone's exchange rate at some other minute.
Proof: /index#method
How much is a Telegram username worth?
It depends on the class of the name, not its length alone. We take the recency-weighted median of real Fragment sales of the same class over twelve months, with a half-life of 60 days and at least 8 sales after cleaning; recent sales count more. If there is not enough comparable evidence, the page says so instead of inventing a number.
Proof: /usernames · /how-we-value
What is a brandable username?
A short, pronounceable handle a company could use as a brand, not a dictionary word and not a random mix. Brandables are capped by the cheapest similar name listed right now, because a buyer can take that alternative instead. Dictionary words, four-letter handles and exact crypto brands are not capped: a cheap different word says little about them.
Proof: /how-we-value
Why don't you include auctions in the floor?
Because a bid is not a price until it settles. A 1 GRAM opening bid on a valuable gift would otherwise print as a market crash, and a floor built that way would measure starting prices, not what sellers ask. Auctions are tracked separately: username-auction hunts publish the minimum bid at alert time, never a profit.
Proof: /index#method · /how-we-value
Can I check your past alerts?
Yes. Every hunt is logged automatically, and after 24 hours its name and a direct Fragment link are shown at /track-record, with the outcome read from Fragment. Today that is 35 hunts: 17 sold, 9 still listed, 9 unknown. The same data is machine-readable at /track-record.json, so you do not have to trust the page.
Proof: /track-record
Can I use your data on my site?
Yes, under CC BY 4.0. Daily index, floors, models and the track record are free, no key, CORS enabled; the only condition is the attribution “Data: TG Gifts (tggifts.com)” with a link near the data. Near-real-time floors, snipes and valuations are the paid API, 50 GRAM for 30 days. For a citation, the dataset has a DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.23897620.
Why does your index have only 16 days of history?
Because the scanner went live on 2026-10-17 and 2026-10-18 is the first full day; there is no earlier history to recover. The series has 16 official closes, from 100.00 on 2026-10-18 to 108.86 on 2026-11-02, with no missing day inside that range. The 30-day change stays empty until 30 days exist: we do not extrapolate it.
How do I know a below-floor alert is real?
An item becomes a snipe only if it has a fixed price, costs at most 90% of the floor it undercuts, leaves at least 5 GRAM after Fragment's 5% fee, and belongs to a collection that actually trades: 15 or more recent sales, or 3 if the collection is younger than 72 hours, labelled low liquidity. Every item is re-checked live before delivery, and can still be bought within seconds.
Proof: /how-we-value
Do you sell placement in the index or in the alerts?
No. A collection enters the index by rule: a floor on both days and at least 15 recent sales. Its weight comes from recent sales, capped at 10%. A hunt is published because it passed the rules, not because someone paid. Revenue comes from VIP and API plans; Telegram, Fragment and TON Foundation pay us nothing.
Proof: /index#method · /about
What happens if you publish a wrong number?
A published daily index value never changes. If we find an error, a dated note is added on /index and to corrections[] in index.json: the date, what was wrong, which values, the old and the new number, and why. The index has no corrections yet. We did publish one correction of a claim: the 5.2% username accuracy figure was in-sample and became 28.2% out-of-sample.
Proof: /how-we-value · /index
How much does VIP cost, and what is free?
Free: live floors, the index, the open data, the public track record, 3 valuations a day and your first snipe. VIP in GRAM: 3 days 5, 7 days 10, 30 days 35, 90 days 85, a year 300. API 50 per 30 days, Business API 150. No auto-renewal, and a 7-day guarantee on your first paid VIP.
Proof: /plans
How our method compares
/compare · /how-we-value