🆚 Cloudflare Email Obfuscation vs. reCAPTCHA
- 📈 reCAPTCHA is twice as popular as Cloudflare Email Obfuscation.
- 🌎 reCAPTCHA is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Spain.
- 🌍 Cloudflare Email Obfuscation is more popular in Thailand, Turkey, and Vietnam.
Statistics based on 3.5M+ analyzed websites. About this data
Type
Spam protection software
Captcha service
About
Cloudflare Email Address Obfuscation hides email addresses on web pages from bots by encrypting them.
reCAPTCHA is a Google service that protects websites from spam, fraud, and automated abuse by distinguishing human users from bots.
It offers several versions, including v2 with an "I'm not a robot" checkbox and an invisible badge and v3 with background risk scoring.
Headquarters
San Francisco, California, United States
Mountain View, California, United States
Pricing
Free version ✔️
Pro$25/month
Business$250/month
EnterpriseCustom
Free tier ✔️Up to 10K assessments per month
From 10K to 100K assessments$8/month
> 100K assessments per month$1/1K
Categories
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The reCAPTCHA service is 2.1 times more popular than Cloudflare Email Obfuscation.
Total websites
Market share
Spam Protection
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
reCAPTCHA is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Spain, while Cloudflare Email Obfuscation is more popular in Thailand, Turkey, and Vietnam.
United States
United Kingdom
Spain
Australia
Italy
France
Netherlands
Japan
Canada
Brazil
Awards
- 🥇 Most popular in the United Kingdom in the Security category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Thailand in the Security category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Thailand in the Spam Protection category.
- 🥇 Most popular in India in the Security category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Canada in the Security category.
- 🥇 Most popular in the United States in the Spam Protection category.
- 🥇 Most popular in the United States in the Captchas category.
- 🥇 Most popular in the United Kingdom in the Spam Protection category.
- 🥇 Most popular in the United Kingdom in the Captchas category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Spain in the Spam Protection category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
reCAPTCHA is more popular among sites focused on business, marketing and merchandising, and online shopping, while Cloudflare Email Obfuscation is more commonly used on art, culture and heritage sites.
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
Online Shopping
Internet Services
Education/Reference
Blogs/Wiki
Travel
Health
Entertainment
Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
Compare alternatives
Technologies with similar characteristics.
See also
🗃️ 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.

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