⚡ Captchas in Germany

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).

Germany is a Central European country with a population of around 84 million people.

According to our research, captcha services are used on 6% of websites from Germany.

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is reCAPTCHA, which dominates the market with a substantial 66.1% share.
It is followed by hCaptcha with 27.1% and Cloudflare Turnstile with 9.2%.

reCAPTCHA 66.1%
hCaptcha 27.1%
Cloudflare Turnstile 9.2%
Friendly Captcha 4.9%
Altcha 0.8%
AWS WAF Captcha 0.2%
MTCaptcha 0.1%
GeeTest 0.01%
Human Presence 0.007%

🚀 Highlights

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

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

✨ Best Captcha Services

Below is a more detailed list of 9 captcha services used on sites from Germany, 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	66.1%
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	27.1%
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$$$	9.2%
4	Friendly Captcha Woerthsee, Germany A European captcha service that protects websites from bots and automated abuse while prioritizing user privacy, security, and accessibility. Free€9+/month	4.9%
5	Altcha Brno, Czech Republic An open-source, privacy-first, self-hosted captcha alternative that uses a proof-of-work mechanism to protect websites, APIs and online services from spam and unwanted content. FreeOpen source€24+/month	0.8%
6	AWS WAF Captcha Seattle, Washington, United States A feature of the AWS WAF web application firewall that helps protect web applications by requiring requests that match specific criteria to solve a captcha puzzle or silent challenge before proceeding. $$$	0.2%
7	MTCaptcha Mountain View, California, United States A GDPR and WCAG compliant enterprise captcha service. Free tier$29+/month	0.1%
8	GeeTest Wuhan, China A Chinese provider of CAPTCHA and bot management solutions. $$$	0.01%
9	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	0.007%

👉 See Also

🌎 Captchas in other countries

Data is based on the analysis of 225,778 websites from Germany.
Statistics were last calculated on March 30, 2026.
For details, see our methodology and disclaimer.