🆚 Akismet vs. Yandex SmartCaptcha
- 📈 Akismet is much more popular than Yandex SmartCaptcha.
- 🌎 Akismet is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia.
- 🌍 Yandex SmartCaptcha is more popular in Russia and Belize.
Statistics based on 3.5M+ analyzed websites. About this data
Akismet
Yandex SmartCaptchaType
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.
Yandex SmartCaptcha is a captcha service from the Russian company Yandex.
Headquarters
San Francisco, California, United States
Moscow, Russia
Pricing
Free version ✔️Personal use only
$14.95/month
Free tier ✔️Up to 250.000 requests per month
Price per 1,000 requests$0.80
Categories
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The Akismet spam protection software is 17 times more popular than Yandex SmartCaptcha.
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 Yandex SmartCaptcha is more popular in Russia and Belize.
United States
Russia
United Kingdom
Australia
Spain
Netherlands
Canada
France
Italy
Brazil
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.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Russia in the Captchas category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Russia in the Spam Protection category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Akismet is more popular than Yandex SmartCaptcha in all market segments.
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
Internet Services
Blogs/Wiki
Health
Education/Reference
Online Shopping
Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO
Travel
Real Estate
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
Compare alternatives
Technologies with similar characteristics.
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Cloudflare Turnstile
Friendly Captcha
Altcha🗃️ 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 3,511,995 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.