🆚 AWS WAF Captcha vs. Wordfence
Wordfence is much more popular than AWS WAF Captcha.
Wordfence is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia.
AWS WAF Captcha is more popular in Bahrain.
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About
AWS WAF Captcha is a feature of the AWS Web Application Firewall that helps protect web applications by requiring requests that match specific criteria to solve a captcha puzzle or silent challenge before proceeding.
It allows users to embed a JavaScript API in client-side applications, apply captcha or silent challenge actions based on rate-based, bot control, or custom inspection rules, and configure token immunity time.
Wordfence is a WordPress security plugin that provides a web application firewall and malware scanner to protect websites from hacking attempts, malicious traffic, and vulnerable code.
It features an endpoint firewall integrated directly with WordPress, malware detection for over 44,000 known variants, file integrity checks against the WordPress repository, brute force login protection with two-factor authentication, real-time traffic monitoring, and IP and country blocking.
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Pricing
(real-time signatures) $149/year
(hands-on support) $490/year
(1-hour response time) $1250/year
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Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
Market share
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Awards
- ⭐ 4th most popular in the United States in the Captchas category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in Singapore in the Bot Mitigation category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in Singapore in the Captchas category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in the United Kingdom in the Captchas category.
- ⭐ 6th most popular in Singapore in the WAF category.
- 🥇 Most popular in the United Kingdom in the WAF category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Australia in the WAF category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Spain in the WAF category.
- 🥇 Most popular in France in the WAF category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Italy in the WAF category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
Compare alternatives
Technologies with similar characteristics.
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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 4,046,631 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.



