⚡ Captcha Services in Ireland

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.

Ireland is a Western European country with a population of over 5.1 million people.

According to our research, captcha services are used on 21.7% of websites from Ireland.

Statistics based on 16K+ analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is reCAPTCHA with a substantial share of 64.5%, followed by hCaptcha with 34% and Cloudflare Turnstile with 15.3%.

reCAPTCHA 64.5%
hCaptcha 34%
Cloudflare Turnstile 15.3%
AWS WAF Captcha 0.4%
Friendly Captcha 0.1%
Altcha 0.08%
GeeTest 0.06%
Tencent Captcha 0.03%

🚀 Highlights

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

4. AWS WAF Captcha ^(-3)
7. GeeTest ^(-1)
8. Tencent Captcha ^(-1)

✨ Best Captcha Services

Below is a more detailed list of 8 captcha services used on sites from Ireland, 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	64.5%
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	34%
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$$$	15.3%
4	AWS WAF Captcha Seattle, Washington, United States A feature of the AWS Web Application Firewall that helps protect web applications by requiring requests that match specific criteria to solve a captcha puzzle or silent challenge before proceeding. $$$	0.4%
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	0.1%
6	Altcha Brno, Czechia 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	0.08%
7	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. $$$	0.06%
8	Tencent Captcha Shenzhen, China Provides web and app developers with comprehensive human verification services through slider CAPTCHAs. Free tier$0.005+	0.03%

👉 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 16,430 websites from Ireland.
We currently track the presence of 14 captcha services across the web.
Of these, 8 were detected on websites from Ireland.
Statistics were last calculated on November 12, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.