🆚 Altcha vs. Yidun Captcha

Type

Captcha service
Captcha service

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.

Yidun is a captcha service provided by the Chinese company NetEase.

Headquarters

Brno, Czechia
Hangzhou, China

Website

Pricing

Free version ✔️ Open source
ALTCHA Sentinel €99+/month

Categories

Captchas › Rank #6
Captchas › Rank #11
Spam Protection › Rank #9
Spam Protection › Rank #13

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Altcha captcha service is 11 times more popular than Yidun Captcha.
Total websites

Market share

Captchas
Spam Protection

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Altcha is more popular in Germany, the Netherlands, and the United States, while Yidun Captcha is more popular in China.
Germany
Netherlands
United States
France
China
Switzerland
Austria
United Kingdom
Spain
Czechia

Awards

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Altcha is more popular than Yidun Captcha in all market segments.
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
Online Shopping
Real Estate
Internet Services
Education/Reference
General News
Travel
Software/Hardware
Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name
Rank
#5,290
#8,928
#15,906
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Name
Rank
#60,738
#73,475
#111,476
#113,152
#122,360
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See also

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