🆚 Friendly Captcha vs. Yandex SmartCaptcha
- 📈 Friendly Captcha is as popular as Yandex SmartCaptcha.
- 🌍 Friendly Captcha is more popular in Germany, Austria, and the Netherlands.
- 🌍 Yandex SmartCaptcha is more popular in Russia, Belarus, and Kazakhstan.
Statistics based on 3.5M+ analyzed websites. About this data
Friendly Captcha
Yandex SmartCaptchaType
Captcha service
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.
Yandex SmartCaptcha is a captcha service from the Russian company Yandex.
Headquarters
Woerthsee, Germany
Moscow, Russia
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 ✔️Up to 250.000 requests per month
Price per 1,000 requests$0.80
Categories
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The Friendly Captcha service is as popular as Yandex SmartCaptcha.
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 Yandex SmartCaptcha is more popular in Russia, Belarus, and Kazakhstan.
Russia
Germany
Austria
Netherlands
France
Switzerland
Sweden
United Kingdom
Belgium
Spain
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.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Russia in the Captchas category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Russia 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 health, while Yandex SmartCaptcha is more commonly used on marketing and merchandising, Internet services, and general news sites.
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
Online Shopping
Health
Finance/Banking
Education/Reference
Internet Services
Software/Hardware
Fashion/Beauty
Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
Compare alternatives
Technologies with similar characteristics.
reCAPTCHA
hCaptcha
Cloudflare Turnstile
Altcha🗃️ 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.