Which AI tools do people use to build Telegram, Discord and WhatsApp bots?

Across the 19 sourced use cases in this guide, the most used tools are Claude Code, Telegram Bot API, n8n, Telegram, WhatsApp.

How much does it cost to get started?

2 of the 19 use cases can start on a free plan. The most common paid starting price is $17/mo (5 use cases). Prices come from each tool's official pricing page.

How long does setup take?

3 of the 19 use cases list a setup time of an hour or less. Each card shows the setup time the builder reported.

Are these real examples?

Yes. Every use case links to its public source (an X post, a Hacker News thread or a GitHub repo) with the author and date, so you can check it yourself.

How to build Telegram, Discord and WhatsApp bots with AI

Chat bots people built so they can talk to their agents from the apps they already use. 19 matching use cases below, each with a public source.

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Get started in 3 steps

Pick the chat app you already open every day; Telegram bots are the quickest to create and test.
Lock the bot to your own user ID so it only answers you, and keep API keys out of the chat itself.
Start with one command (a summary, an alert or a search) and add more once it runs reliably.

Vibe coding & appsX · @borisfounder

Build your own AI assistant on Telegram as a first project

A hobbyist built a personal AI assistant on Telegram as his first Claude Code project.

Free to start2-4 hoursIntermediate

Claude Code Claude Telegram Bot API

Dev & opsX · @0xCodila

Turn a spare Android TV box into an always-on host for your AI agent

A builder had Claude Code inspect the Android TV box from his TV provider from a prompt and one photo, install a Linux shell built for its chip, add a wake lock and battery whitelist so Android cannot kill the agent, and wire the agent to his own Telegram bot with no open ports.

$17/mo2-3 hoursAdvanced

Claude Code Claude Opus 5.5Telegram

Personal & lifeHacker News · szert

Have an AI answer your phone and waste scammers' time

Fed up with scam calls, a developer diverted his mobile to a Telnyx number where an OpenAI live voice agent answers. A classifier labels each call as spam, scam or genuine and steers the bot: scammers get strung along, sales calls get a polite no, and real callers get a message taken. He can steer the bot from Telegram mid-call.

See pricing pageA few daysAdvanced

OpenAITelnyxTelegram

Personal & lifeHacker News · zoozla

Let Claude search your personal WhatsApp chats from a server in your own Cloudflare account

A developer wanted Claude on his phone to read his WhatsApp messages without WhatsApp Business or a server running all day, so he built a small MCP server that runs on Cloudflare Workers. You link it once like WhatsApp Web; it syncs when asked and once a day into a SQLite Durable Object in your account. It can read and search chats but cannot send anything, and it pulls contact names from Google so search works by name.

$17/mo30 minutesIntermediate

Claude Code Cloudflare WhatsApp

Automation & businessX · @rawaldelhi

Put Claude Code, Codex and a local model in one group chat you control from your phone

RAPR AI puts Claude Code, Codex and Ollama in one group chat on your own machine, controlled from your browser, Telegram or WhatsApp.

$17/mo30 minutesIntermediate

Claude Code OpenAI Codex Ollama

Personal & lifeX · @andy1and

Run a family office and kids' logistics through one Grok Bot

He talks to one agent that spins up specialists running around the clock on their own computers. It reads all his email and WhatsApp groups, surfaces only the decisions he needs to make, and keeps the family calendar.

$30/moOngoingIntermediate

Grok Bot WhatsApp Gmail

Personal & lifeX · @asadjibranahmed

Save cafés you see on TikTok to a searchable map with a Telegram bot

Tired of saving TikToks of great cafés and never finding them again, a developer built a Telegram bot: send it a link and an AI agent researches the place and adds it to a searchable list and map. It is a custom agent written in Elixir.

See pricing pageA few weekendsAdvanced

TelegramElixir

MoneyX · @h100envy

Scan Solana memecoins for rugs with an open-source safety swarm

CrawlHive is an open-source memecoin safety tool for Solana: it scores each token on 7 checks (market, holders, bundles, clones, dev, Telegram, X) for a 0 to 100 verdict, reads contract bytecode for 134 dangerous functions, and lets you write your own crawlers in plain language that send signals to Telegram. It also works over MCP and with Grok Bot.

$30/mo1 weekAdvanced

Grok BotTelegram

Dev & opsX · @ferrousCE

Triage GitHub issues automatically with n8n and Groq

An AI triage workflow built with n8n, Groq and Postgres classifies GitHub issues, routes high-priority bugs to Discord and retries on failure.

See pricing2 hoursIntermediate

n8n Groq Postgres

Automation & businessX · @Imkiranveer

Catch suspicious sales at a small store with a nightly AI alert

An AI agent built in n8n checks a liquor store's sales for suspicious transactions and sends the owner a Telegram alert every night.

See pricing2 hoursIntermediate

n8n Telegram Bot API

MoneyX · @OwlBagoly

Log every Stripe sale to a sheet and get a phone ping

Tired of refreshing the Stripe dashboard, a builder made an n8n workflow: each paid order is duplicate-checked, added as a row in Google Sheets and sent to Telegram. Tested with USD, EUR, HUF, JPY and KWD.

See pricing30 minutesBeginner

n8n Stripe Google Sheets

Marketing & growthX · @adu_ayomid44238

Turn one idea into posts for four platforms with n8n and Groq

One idea goes in and drafts for LinkedIn, X, TikTok and Reddit come out, plus a content calendar and Telegram reminders. Built with n8n and Groq for almost nothing.

See pricing2 hoursIntermediate

n8n Groq Telegram Bot API

Automation & businessX · @pvergadia

Give your AI agent its own email address and send it tasks from WhatsApp

The author runs Hermes Agent so tasks kick off from WhatsApp, then started experimenting with a MessageBird MCP integration to do the same directly from Claude chat.

Free tier1-2 hoursIntermediate

Hermes Agent WhatsApp Claude

Dev & opsHacker News · herval

Chat with Claude Code and OpenClaw from the Mac menu bar

Built Littleguys, a WhatsApp-style Mac menu bar app for Claude Code, Codex and OpenClaw agents.

$17/mo1 weekIntermediate

Claude Code OpenAI Codex OpenClaw

Dev & opsX · @aaassa120

Put coding agents in Discord-style team rooms

Shared Alook, an open-source Discord-style workspace where Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and other agents join team rooms.

$17/mo1-2 hoursIntermediate

Claude Code OpenAI Codex Cursor

Research & learningHacker News · sonjaqql

Build a searchable archive of newly released documents

Built a searchable archive of declassified UAP files, news and analysis to read the recent releases at home.

See pricingweekendIntermediate

OpenClaw Discord Developer Platform Remotion

Personal & lifeX · @Frank_AI_Lab

Replace most of your phone's apps with one Grok Bot

He checked the roughly 160 apps he had collected and found he still opens only the phone, two banking apps, WhatsApp, email, three delivery apps, the wallet, his own memory-training app and Grok Bot, which handles nearly everything else.

$30/moWeeksBeginner

Grok Bot

Marketing & growthX · @hs5402395

Get a landing page audit from a chat message

Send a URL on Telegram; the agent screenshots the live page, analyzes copy, CTAs, structure and trust signals and returns a scored PDF.

See pricing1 dayIntermediate

Telegram Bot API

Creators & videoX · @mdaman010

Turn two words into a finished explainer video on Telegram

Built a Telegram bot that writes a script, voiceover, images and captions from a short topic prompt for about three cents.

See pricing page1 weekAdvanced

Common questions

Which AI tools do people use to build Telegram, Discord and WhatsApp bots?: Across the 19 sourced use cases in this guide, the most used tools are Claude Code, Telegram Bot API, n8n, Telegram, WhatsApp.
How much does it cost to get started?: 2 of the 19 use cases can start on a free plan. The most common paid starting price is $17/mo (5 use cases). Prices come from each tool's official pricing page.
How long does setup take?: 3 of the 19 use cases list a setup time of an hour or less. Each card shows the setup time the builder reported.
Are these real examples?: Yes. Every use case links to its public source (an X post, a Hacker News thread or a GitHub repo) with the author and date, so you can check it yourself.

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