A Telegram gift is not a separate product with its own rules. It is a small animated present that you pay for with Stars, the in-app currency Telegram uses for digital goods: extra reactions, gifts, paid posts in channels, and bot services. When you buy a gift package from a top-up service, what you get is the star balance that pays for that present. The animation, the message in the chat, and the item that stays on the recipient's profile all come from Telegram itself.
That distinction matters when you compare prices. Two sellers can quote the same 13-star gift at very different rupiah amounts, yet the thing delivered is identical: stars credited to your account, then spent on the gift inside the app. You are not buying a look-alike animation. You are buying the balance behind it, so the only variable worth arguing about is how much that balance costs you.
Gifts also differ from a plain transfer of stars. A gift is a fixed item with a price tag; a transfer moves balance from one wallet to another. If your goal is to hand someone spending power rather than a specific present, a transfer is the cleaner route. If your goal is to make a moment visible in a chat, a gift is the right tool, and the price list below is what that moment costs.
Prices below are what warungstar charges, in rupiah, with the payment fee already included. The dollar column is a rough conversion at around Rp 17,771 per dollar, so treat it as an indication rather than a quote.
| Package | Price (IDR) | Approx. USD | Typical use |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13⭐ gift | Rp 4,320 | about $0.24 | quick thank-you in a DM |
| 21⭐ gift | Rp 7,200 | about $0.41 | birthdays, small celebrations |
| 50⭐ | Rp 14,400 | about $0.81 | regular gifting |
| 100⭐ | Rp 28,800 | about $1.62 | supporting a creator |
| 500⭐ | Rp 144,000 | about $8.10 | channel milestones |
| 1,000⭐ | Rp 288,000 | about $16.20 | giveaways, big occasions |
The two gift packs are fixed sizes because those are the entry presents Telegram offers for the smaller animations. Everything above them is a custom amount: you choose any figure between 50 and 1,000 stars and pay Rp 288 per star. So 50 stars costs Rp 14,400, 100 stars Rp 28,800, 500 stars Rp 144,000, and 1,000 stars Rp 288,000. You can split one order across several recipients too; the price depends on the total, not on how many chats you send gifts into.
Both sizes sit in impulse territory. Rp 4,320 and Rp 7,200 are below what most people spend on a coffee, so the decision takes seconds and the recipient still gets something that animates, carries a message, and stays visible on their profile. In a chat culture built on stickers and emoji, that is a meaningful step up without a meaningful budget.
The 21-star pack is the more comfortable choice when the occasion is real: a birthday, a graduation, a friend's channel hitting its first thousand subscribers. The extra Rp 2,880 over the 13-star pack buys a slightly larger animation and reads as a deliberate gesture rather than a reflex. If you are unsure which one to send, ask what the relationship is worth in the moment, not what the difference in price suggests.
If you send one small gift every few months, buy the 13 or 21-star pack and stop there. The effective rate inside those packs is higher per star, but the absolute amount is small and you avoid holding a balance you may never spend.
If you gift weekly, run giveaways, or support several channels, the math flips. At Rp 288 per star, a custom top-up of 500 stars costs Rp 144,000 — and those stars work for gifts, premium reactions, and paid channel posts. Leftover balance does not expire, so nothing is wasted if you send fewer gifts than planned. The break-even point is roughly two small gift packs a month: below that, buy packs; above it, top up a balance and send from it.
Buying stars inside the Telegram app runs through Apple's or Google's in-app billing. Both stores take a commission on every purchase and that commission is already inside the number you see, which is why the same pack shows different prices on iOS, on Android, and on Telegram Desktop. Regional pricing adds another layer: the store converts from dollars at its own rate and rounds the result up.
A top-up service works outside that chain. The stars still land in your Telegram account and behave exactly like stars bought in the app, but the payment settles in rupiah through QRIS, so there is no card, no app-store commission, and no currency conversion on your side. That is the entire explanation for the gap between the two columns people compare. It is not a promo code and it does not expire at midnight.
Nothing in that flow needs a credit card, a VPN, or a foreign app-store account. If your payment clears but the stars have not arrived after ten minutes, send /orders to pull up the order, then /redeliver to ask for another delivery attempt, and attach your payment screenshot when the bot asks for proof.
Open the chat where the gift should land, tap the gift icon beside the message field, and choose a design from the picker. The price of each design is shown in stars, so you can see immediately whether your balance covers it. Confirm, and the gift posts into the conversation with your message attached.
For a channel, the flow is the same, but the gift appears in the channel's feed and counts toward the creator's star balance. That is the version to use when you want to support a creator you follow, and it is also the version that shows up publicly, so keep the message short and readable. If you are gifting as a brand, a plain sentence beats an emoji wall.
Stars received as gifts land in the recipient's star balance, not in a separate gift wallet. From there they work like any other stars: sending gifts onward, buying premium reactions, and paying for content in channels that charge per post. A creator who receives enough of them can convert the balance to Toncoin through Fragment, under Telegram's own rules and fees — that route belongs to the creator, not to the person who sent the gift.
One practical consequence: you cannot claw stars back from a recipient, and a recipient cannot return them to you as rupiah. Plan the gift as a one-way transfer of value. If you need something reversible, send a message instead.
The rupiah column moves with the exchange rate, so a gift that cost Rp 4,320 this week can quote slightly differently next month. Two habits keep the number stable in practice. First, check /prices before a large order rather than trusting a screenshot. Second, buy the balance in one go for the quarter instead of topping up every week — the rounding on small orders adds up, and holding stars costs nothing.
If you gift for work — community management, creator support, giveaway prizes — keep the receipts. /riwayat lists your past orders, which is enough to reconcile a monthly budget without saving chat screenshots. And if a payment ever fails halfway, /refund and /contact exist for exactly those cases; use them before assuming the money is gone.
Rp 4,320 at warungstar, paid by QRIS, with the payment fee included. That is roughly $0.24 at a rate of about Rp 17,771 per dollar.
Rp 7,200, or about $0.41. It is the second fixed gift size, and the one to choose for birthdays and small celebrations.
Yes. Custom amounts run from 50 to 1,000 stars at Rp 288 per star, so 50 stars is Rp 14,400 and 1,000 stars is Rp 288,000.
Yes. The rupiah figure follows the USDT rate, so check /prices in @warungstarbot before a large order instead of relying on an older screenshot.
Not directly. The stars sit in their balance and are spent inside Telegram. A channel creator can convert an accumulated balance to Toncoin through Fragment, subject to Telegram's rules and fees.
It stays with that account. Gifts cannot be recalled or reversed once delivered, which is why the username is confirmed before payment.
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