⚡ Captchas in the Philippines

Captchas (from an acronym for "Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart") are security technologies 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.

The Philippines is a Southeast Asian country with a population of over 118 million people.

According to our research, captcha services are used on 14.5% of websites from the Philippines.

Statistics based on 5K+ analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is reCAPTCHA with a substantial share of 63.2%, followed by hCaptcha with 37.5% and Cloudflare Turnstile with 7.7%.

reCAPTCHA 63.2%
hCaptcha 37.5%
Cloudflare Turnstile 7.7%
GeeTest 0.2%
Tencent Captcha 0.2%
AWS WAF Captcha 0.1%
MTCaptcha 0.1%

🚀 Highlights

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

4. GeeTest ^(-4)
5. Tencent Captcha ^(-4)
6. AWS WAF Captcha ^(-1)
7. MTCaptcha ^(-3)

✨ Best Captcha Services

Below is a more detailed list of 7 captcha services used on sites from the Philippines, 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	63.2%
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	37.5%
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$$$	7.7%
4	GeeTest Wuhan, China A Chinese provider of CAPTCHA and bot management solutions. $$$	0.2%
5	Tencent Captcha Shenzhen, China Provides web and app developers with comprehensive human verification services through slider CAPTCHAs. Free tier$0.005+	0.2%
6	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. $$$	0.1%
7	MTCaptcha Mountain View, California, United States A GDPR and WCAG compliant enterprise captcha service. Free tier$29+/month	0.1%

👉 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 5,607 websites from the Philippines.
We currently track the presence of 13 captcha services across the web.
Of these, 7 were detected on websites from the Philippines.
Statistics were last calculated on May 14, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.