⚡ Captcha Services in South Africa

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.

South Africa is an African country with a population of over 60 million people.

According to our research, captcha services are used on 21.1% of websites from South Africa.

Statistics based on 19K+ analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is reCAPTCHA, which dominates the market with a substantial 70.7% share.
It is followed by hCaptcha with 31.3% and Cloudflare Turnstile with 17.2%.

reCAPTCHA 70.7%
hCaptcha 31.3%
Cloudflare Turnstile 17.2%
Friendly Captcha 0.1%
Altcha 0.1%
MTCaptcha 0.02%

🚀 Highlights

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

4. Friendly Captcha ^(-1)
5. Altcha ^(-1)
6. MTCaptcha ^(-4)

✨ Best Captcha Services

Below is a more detailed list of 6 captcha services used on sites from South Africa, 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	70.7%
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	31.3%
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$$$	17.2%
4	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	0.1%
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€99+/month	0.1%
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	0.02%

👉 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 19,927 websites from South Africa.
We currently track the presence of 14 captcha services across the web.
Of these, 6 were detected on websites from South Africa.
Statistics were last calculated on September 18, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.