What a Telegram bot costs in Uzbekistan: a budget breakdown
Market prices vary wildly: the same bot as described costs two million or twenty. Here is what separates those offers.
Three levels of complexity
Level one, an information bot: menu, texts, contacts, a request form sent to a chat. 2M – 5M UZS, up to a week.
Level two, an operational bot: catalogue or booking, database, admin panel, notifications, basic analytics. 7M – 18M UZS, two to four weeks.
Level three, payments and integrations: payment provider, CRM, inventory system, user accounts and roles. From 20M UZS, six to eight weeks.
Monthly running costs
Server and database: 200,000 – 800,000 UZS a month for a typical bot, plus a domain and SSL if there is a Mini App or admin panel.
Support: 500,000 – 2,000,000 UZS monthly for monitoring, updates and small fixes. Without it, the first payment provider API change stops payments and you hear about it from customers.
Why cheap bots cost more
A 500,000 UZS bot usually means a no-code builder without a database: requests arrive as messages, no history is kept, and migrating to a real architecture means starting over.
The other version is a freelancer with no documentation and no code handover. Six months later nobody has the source and the bot is rebuilt at full price.
Cutting budget without damage
Launch version one with the single flow that makes money and add branches after observing real behaviour — typically half the planned features turn out unnecessary.
Skip the admin panel at launch if content changes quarterly; it pays off only with regular edits.