Cloudflare Turnstile
Cloudflare, San Francisco, California, United StatesCloudflare Turnstile is a user-friendly CAPTCHA alternative that verifies human visitors without requiring them to solve interactive puzzles or identify objects.
It works by running invisible background tests such as proof-of-work calculations and checks for browser quirks to analyze the visitor's environment and behavior, supports Private Access Tokens (PATs) to validate devices without tracking, and offers a free API.
According to our data, Cloudflare Turnstile is the third most popular captcha service on the web.
It has 9.8% of the captcha market share and is detected on 1.3% of all websites.
- 🏠 Website
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💸 Pricing
Cloudflare Turnstile is available in both free and paid versions.
📊 Rankings and Market Share
- Captchas
- Rank: 3
- Market share: 9.8%
- Spam Protection
- Rank: 4
- Market share: 7.3%
🏆 Cloudflare Turnstile Awards
- 🥈 Second most popular in Japan in the Captchas category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Japan in the Spam Protection category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Turkey in the Captchas category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Hungary in the Captchas category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Ukraine in the Captchas category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Slovakia in the Captchas category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Iran in the Captchas category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in the United States in the Captchas category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in the United Kingdom in the Captchas category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Germany in the Captchas category.
⚡ Sites Using Cloudflare Turnstile
We have data on 46,664 websites that use the Cloudflare Turnstile captcha service. Here is a list of some of the top ranked ones.
The highest rated site using Cloudflare Turnstile is cloudflare.com.
| # | Website | Rank | Country | Language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cloudflare.com |
#20 | United States | English |
| 2 |  flickr.com |
#32 | United States | English |
| 3 |  discord.com |
#46 | United States | English |
| 4 | #166 | English | ||
| 5 |  notion.com |
#186 | United States | American English |
| 6 | #224 | United States | English | |
| 7 | #231 | United Kingdom | American English | |
| 8 | #237 | English | ||
| 9 |  trendyol.com |
#301 | United States | Turkish |
| 10 | #397 | American English | ||
| 11 | #454 | |||
| 12 | #560 | Netherlands | English | |
| 13 | #646 | English | ||
| 14 | #747 | English | ||
| 15 | #777 | Netherlands | English | |
| 16 | #837 | English | ||
| 17 | #841 | United States | English | |
| 18 | #848 | India | English | |
| 19 | #854 | English | ||
| 20 |  hostinger.com |
#1,095 | American English |
📈 Usage Statistics
Most of the sites that use Cloudflare Turnstile:
- are located in the United States
- have content in English
- use the .com domain extension
- fall into the Business category.
Most of the sites using Cloudflare Turnstile are from the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany.
- United States 26.9%
- United Kingdom 8.7%
- Germany 5.6%
- France 5.1%
- Spain 3.8%
- Italy 3.5%
- Canada 3.3%
- Australia 3%
- India 2.9%
- Other 37.2%
Most Cloudflare Turnstile users speak English, Spanish, or French.
- English 63.6%
- Spanish 6.3%
- French 4.8%
- German 4.6%
- Italian 2.8%
- Portuguese 2.4%
- Japanese 2.3%
- Dutch 1.8%
- Polish 1.4%
- Other 10%
The Cloudflare Turnstile captcha service is especially popular on .com and .org top-level domains.
- .com 46.6%
- .org 9.4%
- .de 3%
- .co.uk 2.7%
- .net 2.4%
- .it 1.9%
- .fr 1.8%
- .nl 1.4%
- .ca 1.4%
- Other 29.4%
The primary market segments for websites utilizing Cloudflare Turnstile include business, marketing and merchandising, and blogs and wiki.
- Business 18.1%
- Marketing/Merchandising 11.2%
- Blogs/Wiki 8.3%
- Online Shopping 7.4%
- Education/Reference 6.3%
- Internet Services 5.1%
- Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO 4.2%
- Health 3.8%
- Entertainment 3.8%
- Other 31.8%
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💬 Frequently Asked Questions
What is the company behind Cloudflare Turnstile?
Cloudflare Turnstile is owned by Cloudflare, Inc., headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States.
Does Cloudflare Turnstile offer a free plan?
Yes, there is a free version with limited functionality.
Which country uses Cloudflare Turnstile the most?
The majority of Cloudflare Turnstile users are from the United States.
Who uses Cloudflare Turnstile?
According to our data, Cloudflare Turnstile is used on thousands of sites, including such established ones as flickr.com, discord.com, and wiley.com.
Is Cloudflare Turnstile used on government websites?
Overall, we found Cloudflare Turnstile on 52 government sites in the United States.
Do academic institutions use Cloudflare Turnstile?
Yes. Overall, we know of 92 academic websites in the United States that use Cloudflare Turnstile.
How does Cloudflare Turnstile stack up against the competition?
What are the alternatives to Cloudflare Turnstile?
Alternatives and possible competitors to Cloudflare Turnstile may include 
reCAPTCHA, 
hCaptcha, and 
Yandex SmartCaptcha.
👉 See Also
- ✨ Related technologies
- 💼 All technologies from Cloudflare
🗃️ About This Data
- We evaluate the popularity of technologies based on the number of websites where we detect their usage.
- Technologies without a detectable web footprint, and those we do not track, are not reflected in the calculated market share.
- This report is based on the analysis of 3,629,123 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.