🆚 Friendly Captcha vs. Tencent Captcha

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *

📈 Friendly Captcha is much more popular than Tencent Captcha.
🌍 Friendly Captcha is more popular in Germany, Austria, and the Netherlands.
🌍 Tencent Captcha is more popular in China, Hong Kong, and Singapore.

Friendly Captcha

Tencent Captcha

Type

Captcha service

About

Friendly Captcha is a European captcha service that protects websites from bots and automated abuse while prioritizing user privacy, security, and accessibility.

It uses a proof-of-work approach that runs in the background without image challenges or tracking cookies, complies with GDPR by avoiding personal data collection, works without user interaction in most cases, and supports WCAG accessibility requirements.

Tencent Captcha provides web and app developers with comprehensive human verification services through slider CAPTCHAs.

Headquarters

Woerthsee, Germany

Shenzhen, China

Website

friendlycaptcha.com #56,350

tencentcloud.com #67,733

Pricing

Free version ✔️Non-commercial use, 1K requests/month

Starter (1 domain, 1K requests)€9/month

Growth (5 domains, 5K requests)€39/month

Advanced (50 domains, 50K requests)€200/month

EnterpriseCustom

Free tier ✔️Free trial: 10,000 free verifications per month

Pay-as-you-go, tiered, per verificationUp to 100 per day$0.005
Up to 1K per day$0.0008
Up to 10K per day$0.0008
Up to 100K per day$0.0002
Up to 1M per day$0.0001
More then 1M per day$0.00005

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Friendly Captcha service is 7 times more popular than Tencent Captcha.

Total websites

Market share

Captchas

Spam Protection

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Friendly Captcha is more popular in Germany, Austria, and the Netherlands, while Tencent Captcha is more popular in China, Hong Kong, and Singapore.

Germany

China

Austria

Netherlands

France

Switzerland

Sweden

United Kingdom

Hong Kong

United States

Awards

⭐ 4th most popular in Germany in the Captchas category.
⭐ 4th most popular in Austria in the Captchas category.
⭐ 4th most popular in the Netherlands in the Captchas category.
⭐ 4th most popular in Switzerland in the Captchas category.
⭐ 4th most popular in Sweden in the Captchas category.

🥉 Third most popular in China in the Captchas category.
⭐ 4th most popular in China in the Spam Protection category.
⭐ 4th most popular in Hong Kong in the Captchas category.
⭐ 5th most popular in Hong Kong in the Spam Protection category.

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Friendly Captcha is more popular among sites focused on business, online shopping, and marketing and merchandising, while Tencent Captcha is more commonly used on games sites.

Business

Online Shopping

Marketing/Merchandising

Finance/Banking

Health

Education/Reference

Software/Hardware

Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO

Internet Services

Job Search