Telegram post character counter
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Paste your text — the counter shows how many characters it takes, how many are left before Telegram’s limit and how many parts a long post needs. There is a separate caption mode for photos and videos: the limit there is four times smaller.
How to use it
- step 1
Choose what you post
A regular message — up to 4,096 characters; a caption for a photo, video or file — up to 1,024.
- step 2
Paste the text
Counting is instant and conservative: emoji and some rare symbols count as two.
- step 3
Shorten or split
If the text doesn’t fit, the counter splits it into parts by paragraphs — copy each separately.
How it’s calculated
Where the limits come from
From the Telegram Bot API docs: message text is 1–4,096 characters, a media caption up to 1,024 characters after entity parsing. Bots and auto-posting services work by these limits.
Formatting doesn’t count
Bold, italic, links and spoilers aren’t counted — only visible text. A URL hidden under a word doesn’t count either.
Why emoji count as two
Inside Telegram, text is marked up in UTF-16 units, and most emoji take two of them. We count the same way, conservatively: if the counter says it fits, it will pass even when a plain character counter shows less.
Long text
If a post doesn’t fit into 4,096 characters, publish it in parts or as an article: TGStudio has articles on a separate page linked from the post.
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FAQ
How many characters can a Telegram post have?
Up to 4,096 in a regular message and up to 1,024 in a photo, video or document caption — per the Bot API docs used by bots and publishing services.
Why do Telegram and my editor show different counts?
We count most emoji and some rare symbols as two, the way Telegram stores them — conservatively. So the number may be higher than in a plain character counter.
What if a caption is longer than 1,024?
Post the photo separately and the text as the next message, or shorten the caption. Caption mode shows how many characters are extra.
Do links and formatting count toward the limit?
No: only visible text counts. A hidden URL under a word doesn’t.