🆚 Akismet vs. reCAPTCHA
- 📈 reCAPTCHA is much more popular than Akismet.
- 🌍 reCAPTCHA is more popular in all countries.
Statistics based on 3.3M+ analyzed websites. About this data
Akismet
reCAPTCHAType
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.
reCAPTCHA is a Google service that protects websites from spam, fraud, and automated abuse by distinguishing human users from bots.
It offers several versions, including v2 with an "I'm not a robot" checkbox and an invisible badge and v3 with background risk scoring.
Headquarters
San Francisco, California, United States
Mountain View, California, United States
cloud.google.comPricing
Free version ✔️Personal use only
$14.95/month
Free tier ✔️Up to 10K assessments per month
From 10K to 100K assessments$8/month
> 100K assessments per month$1/1K
Categories
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The reCAPTCHA service is 15 times more popular than Akismet.
Total websites
Market share
Spam Protection
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
reCAPTCHA is more popular than Akismet in all countries.
United States
United Kingdom
Spain
Australia
Japan
Italy
France
Netherlands
Germany
Canada
Awards
- 🥉 Third most popular in Vietnam in the Spam Protection category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Iran in the Spam Protection category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Belarus in the Spam Protection category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in the United States in the Spam Protection category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in Australia in the Spam Protection category.
- 🥇 Most popular in the United States in the Spam Protection category.
- 🥇 Most popular in the United States in the Captchas category.
- 🥇 Most popular in the United Kingdom in the Spam Protection category.
- 🥇 Most popular in the United Kingdom in the Captchas category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Spain in the Spam Protection category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
reCAPTCHA is more popular than Akismet in all market segments.
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
Online Shopping
Internet Services
Education/Reference
Health
Travel
Blogs/Wiki
Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO
Entertainment
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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Google company profile🗃️ 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 3,375,483 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.