⚡ Captcha Services in France

CAPTCHA, which stands 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 by presenting challenges that are easy to solve for people but difficult for automated systems.

France is a Western European country with a population of around 69 million people.

According to our research, captcha services are used on 17.5% of websites from France.

Statistics based on 124K+ analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is reCAPTCHA, which dominates the market with a substantial 68.7% share.
It is followed by hCaptcha with 29% and Cloudflare Turnstile with 16.3%.

reCAPTCHA 68.7%
hCaptcha 29%
Cloudflare Turnstile 16.3%
Altcha 0.5%
Friendly Captcha 0.4%
MTCaptcha 0.06%
AWS WAF Captcha 0.05%
Cap 0.02%
GeeTest 0.005%
Tencent Captcha 0.005%

🚀 Highlights

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

4. Altcha ^(-2)
6. MTCaptcha ^(-4)
8. Cap ^(-4)

✨ Best Captcha Services

Below is a more detailed list of 10 captcha services used on sites from France, 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	68.7%
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	29%
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$$$	16.3%
4	Altcha Brno, Czech Republic An open-source, privacy-first, self-hosted captcha alternative that uses a proof-of-work mechanism to protect websites, APIs, and online services from spam and unwanted content. FreeOpen source€99+/month	0.5%
5	Friendly Captcha Woerthsee, Germany A European captcha service that protects websites from bots and automated abuse while prioritizing user privacy, security, and accessibility. Free€9+/month	0.4%
6	MTCaptcha Mountain View, California, United States An enterprise captcha service that provides bot detection and human verification with a focus on GDPR compliance and accessibility. Free$29+/month	0.06%
7	AWS WAF Captcha Seattle, Washington, United States A feature of the AWS WAF web application firewall that helps protect web applications by requiring requests that match specific criteria to solve a captcha puzzle or silent challenge before proceeding. $$$	0.05%
8	Cap Lisbon, Portugal An open-source, self-hosted reCAPTCHA alternative that verifies visitors without visual puzzles, tracking, or third-party services. FreeOpen source	0.02%
9	GeeTest Wuhan, China A Chinese bot management and CAPTCHA platform that uses behavioral analysis, machine learning, and device fingerprinting to distinguish human users from automated traffic. $$$	0.005%
10	Tencent Captcha Shenzhen, China Provides web and app developers with comprehensive human verification services through slider CAPTCHAs. Free tier$0.005+	0.005%

👉 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 124,576 websites from France.
We currently track the presence of 14 captcha services across the web.
Of these, 10 were detected on websites from France.
Statistics were last calculated on September 27, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.