🆚 Cloudflare Turnstile vs. hCaptcha
- 📈 hCaptcha is three times more popular than Cloudflare Turnstile.
- 🌎 hCaptcha is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany.
- 🌍 Cloudflare Turnstile is more popular in Japan, Turkey, and Hungary.
Cloudflare Turnstile
hCaptchaType
About
Cloudflare Turnstile is a user-friendly CAPTCHA alternative that verifies human visitors without requiring them to solve interactive puzzles or identify objects.
It works by running invisible background tests such as proof-of-work calculations and checks for browser quirks to analyze the visitor's environment and behavior, supports Private Access Tokens (PATs) to validate devices without tracking, and offers a free API.
hCaptcha is a security service for detecting and preventing human and automated abuse on websites and applications, often used as a drop-in alternative to 
reCAPTCHA.
It uses machine learning-driven bot detection and risk scoring without collecting personal data for GDPR, CCPA and global privacy compliance, and offers customizable challenge types and passive modes to reduce user friction.
Headquarters
cloudflare.comPricing
(100K monthly evals, No CAPTCHA passive mode)$1,188+/year
(bot categorization, threat signatures)Custom
Categories
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 Japan in the Spam Protection category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Japan in the Captchas category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Turkey in the Captchas category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Hungary in the Captchas category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Slovakia in the Captchas category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Pakistan in the Captchas category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Pakistan in the Spam Protection category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in the United States in the Captchas category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in the United Kingdom in the Captchas category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Germany 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.
Compare alternatives
Technologies with similar characteristics.
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Human Presence🗃️ 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.