🆚 Akismet vs. Friendly Captcha

📈 Akismet is much more popular than Friendly Captcha.
🌎 Akismet is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia.
🌍 Friendly Captcha is more popular in Germany, Austria, and Liechtenstein.

Statistics based on 3.8M+ analyzed websites. About this data

Akismet

Friendly Captcha

Type

Spam protection software

Captcha service

About

Akismet is a comment spam filtering service originally developed for WordPress that can also be integrated with other CMS and forums.

Friendly Captcha is a European captcha service that protects websites from bots and automated abuse while prioritizing user privacy, security, and accessibility.

It uses a proof-of-work approach that runs in the background without image challenges or tracking cookies, complies with GDPR by avoiding personal data collection, works without user interaction in most cases, and supports WCAG accessibility requirements.

Headquarters

San Francisco, California, United States

Woerthsee, Germany

Website

akismet.com #119,026

friendlycaptcha.com #56,350

Pricing

Free version ✔️ Personal use only

$14.95/month

Free version ✔️ Non-commercial use, 1K requests/month

Starter (1 domain, 1K requests) €9/month

Growth (5 domains, 5K requests) €39/month

Advanced (50 domains, 50K requests) €200/month

Enterprise Custom

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Akismet spam protection software is 13 times more popular than Friendly Captcha.

Total websites

Market share

Spam Protection

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Akismet is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia, while Friendly Captcha is more popular in Germany, Austria, and Liechtenstein.

United States

United Kingdom

Germany

Australia

Spain

Netherlands

Canada

France

Italy

Brazil

Awards

🥉 Third most popular in Iran in the Spam Protection category.
⭐ 4th most popular in Vietnam in the Spam Protection category.
⭐ 5th most popular in the United States in the Spam Protection category.
⭐ 5th most popular in Australia in the Spam Protection category.
⭐ 5th most popular in Spain in the Spam Protection category.

⭐ 4th most popular in Germany in the Captchas category.
⭐ 4th most popular in Austria in the Captchas category.
⭐ 4th most popular in Sweden in the Captchas category.
⭐ 5th most popular in Germany in the Spam Protection category.
⭐ 5th most popular in Austria in the Spam Protection category.

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Akismet is more popular than Friendly Captcha in all market segments.

Business

Marketing/Merchandising

Internet Services

Health

Blogs/Wiki

Education/Reference

Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO

Online Shopping

Real Estate

Travel

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name

Rank

#1,093

#1,888

#5,839

#6,016

#6,161

Name

Rank

xvideos.com

#59

xnxx.com

#99

xvideos.es

#629

xnxx.es

#639

xnxx-arabic.com

#709