🆚 Cap vs. Yandex SmartCaptcha
- 📈 Yandex SmartCaptcha is much more popular than Cap.
- 🌍 Yandex SmartCaptcha is more popular in Russia, Belarus, and Kazakhstan.
- 🌍 Cap is more popular in Chile, Switzerland, and Germany.
Cap
Yandex SmartCaptchaType
About
Cap is an open-source, self-hosted 
reCAPTCHA alternative that verifies visitors without visual puzzles, tracking, or third-party services.
It uses a two-layer verification model that combines proof-of-work challenges accelerated with 
WebAssembly and Web Workers, including SHA-256 hashing and optional GPU-resistant time-locks.
Yandex SmartCaptcha is a captcha and bot protection service from the Russian technology company Yandex.
It analyzes requests using behavioral and risk-based signals, supports invisible verification that challenges only suspicious users, and offers multiple challenge types including checkboxes, sliders, text recognition, silhouettes, and kaleidoscope puzzles.
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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
- 🥈 Second most popular in Russia in the Spam Protection category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Russia in the Captchas category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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Yandex 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 3,814,833 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.