⚡ Captchas in the United States

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).

The United States of America (USA) is a North American country with a population of over 341 million people.

According to our research, captcha services are used on 13.2% of websites from the United States.

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is reCAPTCHA, which dominates the market with an overwhelming 82.2% share.
It is followed by hCaptcha with 17.5% and Cloudflare Turnstile with 8.1%.

reCAPTCHA 82.2%
hCaptcha 17.5%
Cloudflare Turnstile 8.1%
AWS WAF Captcha 0.1%
Altcha 0.05%
GeeTest 0.03%
Friendly Captcha 0.02%
MTCaptcha 0.02%
Yidun Captcha 0.009%
Human Presence 0.008%
Tencent Captcha 0.007%
Yandex SmartCaptcha 0.003%

🚀 Highlights

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

4. AWS WAF Captcha ^(-3)
5. Altcha ^(-1)
6. GeeTest ^(-2)
8. MTCaptcha ^(-2)
9. Yidun Captcha ^(-2)
10. Human Presence ^(-2)

✨ Best Captcha Services

Below is a more detailed list of 12 captcha services used on sites from the United States, 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	82.2%
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	17.5%
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$$$	8.1%
4	AWS WAF Captcha Seattle, Washington, United States A feature of the AWS WAF web application firewall that helps protect web applications by requiring requests that match specific criteria to solve a captcha puzzle or silent challenge before proceeding. $$$	0.1%
5	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€24+/month	0.05%
6	GeeTest Wuhan, China A Chinese provider of CAPTCHA and bot management solutions. $$$	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	0.02%
8	MTCaptcha Mountain View, California, United States A GDPR and WCAG compliant enterprise captcha service. Free tier$29+/month	0.02%
9	Yidun Captcha Hangzhou, China A captcha service provided by the Chinese company NetEase.	0.009%
10	Human Presence Greenville, South Carolina, United States Web security software that identified human website visitors through human behavior analysis and proprietary machine learning algorithms. Free$3.99+/month	0.008%
11	Tencent Captcha Shenzhen, China Provides web and app developers with comprehensive human verification services through slider CAPTCHAs. Free tier$0.005+	0.007%
12	Yandex SmartCaptcha Moscow, Russia A captcha service from the Russian company Yandex. Free tier$0.80	0.003%

👉 See Also

🌎 Captchas in other countries

Data is based on the analysis of 560,647 websites from the United States.
Statistics were last calculated on March 30, 2026.
For details, see our methodology and disclaimer.