🆚 Altcha vs. GeeTest
- 📈 Altcha is four times more popular than GeeTest.
- 🌎 Altcha is more popular in Germany, the United States, and the Netherlands.
- 🌍 GeeTest is more popular in China, Israel, and Japan.
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About
Altcha is 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.
It performs client-side computational challenges based on hashing and memory-hard algorithms such as Argon2 and Scrypt, adds headers and signatures for verification, operates without cookies, fingerprinting, or external requests, and supports more than 50 languages to meet accessibility and privacy requirements.
GeeTest is a Chinese bot management and CAPTCHA platform that uses behavioral analysis, machine learning, and device fingerprinting to distinguish human users from automated traffic.
It features adaptive challenge mechanisms that adjust verification methods based on risk levels, combines behavioral verification with risk scoring and account protection tools, and supports more than 70 languages.
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Popularity
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Popularity by country
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Awards
- ⭐ 4th most popular in the Netherlands in the Captchas category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in France in the Captchas category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in Switzerland in the Captchas category.
- ⭐ 5th most popular in Germany in the Captchas category.
- ⭐ 5th most popular in the United States in the Captchas category.
- ⭐ 6th most popular in China in the Captchas category.
- ⭐ 7th most popular in China in the Spam Protection category.
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🗃️ 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 3,823,966 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.