⚡ Captchas in Germany

Captchas (from an acronym for "Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart") are security technologies used to verify whether a user is a human or a bot by presenting challenges that are easy to solve for people but difficult for automated systems.

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

According to our research, captcha services are used on 6.3% of websites from Germany.

Statistics based on 239K+ analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ 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 64.7% share.
It is followed by hCaptcha with 28.3% and Cloudflare Turnstile with 11%.

reCAPTCHA 64.7%
hCaptcha 28.3%
Cloudflare Turnstile 11%
Friendly Captcha 5%
Altcha 0.8%
AWS WAF Captcha 0.2%
MTCaptcha 0.1%
GeeTest 0.02%
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	64.7%
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	28.3%
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$$$	11%
4	Friendly Captcha Woerthsee, Germany A European captcha service that protects websites from bots and automated abuse while prioritizing user privacy, security, and accessibility. Free€9+/month	5%
5	Altcha Brno, Czech Republic An open-source, privacy-first, self-hosted captcha alternative that uses a proof-of-work mechanism to protect websites, APIs, and online services from spam and unwanted content. FreeOpen source€99+/month	0.8%
6	AWS WAF Captcha Seattle, Washington, United States A feature of the AWS WAF web application firewall that helps protect web applications by requiring requests that match specific criteria to solve a captcha puzzle or silent challenge before proceeding. $$$	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. $$$	0.02%
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

🗃️ 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 239,457 websites from Germany.
We currently track the presence of 13 captcha services across the web.
Of these, 9 were detected on websites from Germany.
Statistics were last calculated on May 14, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.