⚡ Captcha Services in New Zealand

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.

New Zealand is an Oceanian country with a population of over 5.1 million people.

According to our research, captcha services are used on 19.5% of websites from New Zealand.

Statistics based on 14K+ analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is reCAPTCHA, which dominates the market with a substantial 72.8% share.
It is followed by hCaptcha with 26.5% and Cloudflare Turnstile with 5.6%.

reCAPTCHA 72.8%
hCaptcha 26.5%
Cloudflare Turnstile 5.6%
GeeTest 0.03%
AWS WAF Captcha 0.03%
MTCaptcha 0.03%
Friendly Captcha 0.03%
Yidun Captcha 0.03%

🚀 Highlights

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

4. GeeTest ^(-4)
5. AWS WAF Captcha ^(-2)
6. MTCaptcha ^(-4)
8. Yidun Captcha ^(-3)

✨ Best Captcha Services

Below is a more detailed list of 8 captcha services used on sites from New Zealand, 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	72.8%
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	26.5%
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$$$	5.6%
4	GeeTest Wuhan, China A Chinese bot management and CAPTCHA platform that uses behavioral analysis, machine learning, and device fingerprinting to distinguish human users from automated traffic. $$$	0.03%
5	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. $$$	0.03%
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	0.03%
7	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%
8	Yidun Captcha Hangzhou, China A captcha service provided by the Chinese company NetEase.	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 14,649 websites from New Zealand.
We currently track the presence of 13 captcha services across the web.
Of these, 8 were detected on websites from New Zealand.
Statistics were last calculated on June 20, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.