Telegram founder Pavel Durov just said that the company is now going to be launching Telegram Premium sometime later this month. Currently, there are unlockable features on the Telegram beta version in May but these features will soon be available only for paying users out there. Although Pavel did not share any benefits that will come with the plan, he did say that we will give paying users a lot more extra features, speed, and resources as well as access to the latest offerings from the company.

They went on to explain that a lot of people have always been asking for the service to raise the limits on their chats, media, and file uploads. However, they did say that doing so would lead to massive traffic and server costs beyond what they can afford, and that is why the company did conclude that the only way they could give these new features to their most demanding fans was to raise limits with a paid version.

The free version will also get more features and free users will be able to enjoy more premium options with the new features, including being able to view larger than usual documents, media and stickers stand by paying members. Premium subscribers might get the capability to upload files up to 4GB in size, and the users might also enjoy up to twice a nonpaying users limits when it comes to the number of channels they can join among a lot of other things. The subscription price might be $5, reportedly.

Durov said, “While our experiments with privacy-focused ads in public one-to-many channels have been more successful than we expected, I believe that Telegram should be funded primarily by its users, not advertisers. This way our users will always remain our main priority.”