⚡ Captchas in Australia

A CAPTCHA (an acronym for Completely Automated Public Turing test To tell Computers and Humans Apart) is a security technology used to verify whether a user is a human or a bot (computer program).

Australia is an Oceanian country with a population of over 27 million people.

According to our research, captcha services are used on 21.6% of websites from Australia.

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

The following chart shows the top captcha services in Australia in 2026, based on market share.

The most popular is reCAPTCHA, which dominates the market with an overwhelming 78.7% share.
It is followed by hCaptcha with 20.9% and Cloudflare Turnstile with 4.2%.

reCAPTCHA 78.7%
hCaptcha 20.9%
Cloudflare Turnstile 4.2%
AWS WAF Captcha 0.1%
Altcha 0.08%
Friendly Captcha 0.04%
Human Presence 0.02%
GeeTest 0.006%
MTCaptcha 0.006%
Yidun Captcha 0.006%

🚀 Highlights

Here is a list of the top services that are more popular in Australia than worldwide.
Differences between global and country rankings are shown in parentheses.

4. AWS WAF Captcha ^(-3)
5. Altcha ^(-1)
7. Human Presence ^(-5)
9. MTCaptcha ^(-1)
10. Yidun Captcha ^(-1)

✨ Best Captcha Services

Below is a more detailed list of 10 captcha services used on sites from Australia, ranked by their market share.

Rank	Name	Market share
1	reCAPTCHA Mountain View, California, United States A Google service that protects websites from spam, fraud, and automated abuse by distinguishing human users from bots. Free tier$8+/month	78.7%
2	hCaptcha San Francisco, California, United States A security service for detecting and preventing human and automated abuse on websites and applications, often used as a drop-in alternative to reCAPTCHA. Free$99+/month	20.9%
3	Cloudflare Turnstile San Francisco, California, United States A user-friendly CAPTCHA alternative that verifies human visitors without requiring them to solve interactive puzzles or identify objects. Free$$$	4.2%
4	AWS WAF Captcha Seattle, Washington, United States A feature of the AWS WAF web application firewall that helps protect web applications by requiring requests that match specific criteria to solve a captcha puzzle or silent challenge before proceeding. $$$	0.1%
5	Altcha Brno, Czech Republic An open-source, privacy-first, self-hosted captcha alternative that uses a proof-of-work mechanism to protect websites, APIs and online services from spam and unwanted content. FreeOpen source€24+/month	0.08%
6	Friendly Captcha Woerthsee, Germany A European captcha service that protects websites from bots and automated abuse while prioritizing user privacy, security, and accessibility. Free€9+/month	0.04%
7	Human Presence Greenville, South Carolina, United States Web security software that identified human website visitors through human behavior analysis and proprietary machine learning algorithms. Free$3.99+/month	0.02%
8	GeeTest Wuhan, China A Chinese provider of CAPTCHA and bot management solutions. $$$	0.006%
9	MTCaptcha Mountain View, California, United States A GDPR and WCAG compliant enterprise captcha service. Free tier$29+/month	0.006%
10	Yidun Captcha Hangzhou, China A captcha service provided by the Chinese company NetEase.	0.006%

👉 See Also

🌎 Captchas in other countries

Data is based on the analysis of 73,682 websites from Australia.
Statistics were last calculated on March 21, 2026.
For details, see our methodology and disclaimer.