⚡ Captcha Services in Nigeria

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.

Nigeria is a West African country with a population of over 226 million people.

According to our research, captcha services are used on 12.8% of websites from Nigeria.

Statistics based on 3K+ analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is reCAPTCHA with an impressive share of 58.6%, followed by hCaptcha with 41.8% and Cloudflare Turnstile with 36.2%.

reCAPTCHA 58.6%
hCaptcha 41.8%
Cloudflare Turnstile 36.2%
Altcha 0.6%
GeeTest 0.2%
MTCaptcha 0.2%

🚀 Highlights

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

4. Altcha ^(-2)
5. GeeTest ^(-3)
6. MTCaptcha ^(-4)

✨ Best Captcha Services

Below is a more detailed list of 6 captcha services used on sites from Nigeria, 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	58.6%
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	41.8%
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$$$	36.2%
4	Altcha Brno, Czech Republic An open-source, privacy-first, self-hosted captcha alternative that uses a proof-of-work mechanism to protect websites, APIs, and online services from spam and unwanted content. FreeOpen source€99+/month	0.6%
5	GeeTest Wuhan, China A Chinese bot management and CAPTCHA platform that uses behavioral analysis, machine learning, and device fingerprinting to distinguish human users from automated traffic. $$$	0.2%
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	0.2%

👉 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 3,659 websites from Nigeria.
We currently track the presence of 14 captcha services across the web.
Of these, 6 were detected on websites from Nigeria.
Statistics were last calculated on September 18, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.