Telegram Serverless Tested Against Two VPSs: What the Benchmarks Show

In July 2026, Telegram started inviting some contest participants to a private test of its Serverless platform, which runs bot code and databases on Telegram's infrastructure. On October 6, Mini App hosting was added, allowing the web interface to run there as well. The author, who already rented VPSs in Finland and Germany, built a small prototype to see whether those servers were still needed for a modest Telegram app. Telegram Serverless removes the work of preparing runtimes and keeping processes alive, though server-side code is limited to JavaScript with Telegram's SDK and certain Node APIs are unavailable. An initial test of basic database operations found both VPSs performed better, but the author expanded the benchmarks to include CPU work, JSON processing, batch inserts, concurrent SQL and outbound HTTP requests.
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