⚡ Captchas in India

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).

India is a South Asian country with a population of over 1.4 billion people.

According to our research, captcha services are used on 14.6% of websites from India.

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is reCAPTCHA, which dominates the market with a substantial 66.9% share.
It is followed by hCaptcha with 33.1% and Cloudflare Turnstile with 7.1%.

reCAPTCHA 66.9%
hCaptcha 33.1%
Cloudflare Turnstile 7.1%
AWS WAF Captcha 0.06%
Friendly Captcha 0.03%
GeeTest 0.01%

🚀 Highlights

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

4. AWS WAF Captcha ^(-3)
6. GeeTest ^(-2)

✨ Best Captcha Services

Below is a more detailed list of 6 captcha services used on sites from India, 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	66.9%
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	33.1%
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$$$	7.1%
4	AWS WAF Captcha Seattle, Washington, United States A feature of the AWS WAF web application firewall that helps protect web applications by requiring requests that match specific criteria to solve a captcha puzzle or silent challenge before proceeding. $$$	0.06%
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	0.03%
6	GeeTest Wuhan, China A Chinese provider of CAPTCHA and bot management solutions. $$$	0.01%

👉 See Also

🌎 Captchas in other countries

Data is based on the analysis of 67,667 websites from India.
Statistics were last calculated on March 30, 2026.
For details, see our methodology and disclaimer.