🆚 hCaptcha vs. reCAPTCHA

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *

📈 reCAPTCHA is four times more popular than hCaptcha.
🌎 reCAPTCHA is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia.
🌍 hCaptcha is more popular in Pakistan, Gabon, and Cook Islands.

hCaptcha

reCAPTCHA

Type

Captcha service

About

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.

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

Website

hcaptcha.com #1,583

cloud.google.com

Pricing

Free version ✔️Up to 100K requests per month

Pro
(100K monthly evals, No CAPTCHA passive mode)$1,188+/year

Enterprise
(bot categorization, threat signatures)Custom

Free tier ✔️Up to 10K assessments per month

From 10K to 100K assessments$8/month

> 100K assessments per month$1/1K

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The reCAPTCHA service is 4 times more popular than hCaptcha.

Total websites

Market share

Captchas

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 Australia, while hCaptcha is more popular in Pakistan, Gabon, and Cook Islands.

United States

United Kingdom

Australia

Spain

France

Italy

Japan

Netherlands

Germany

Canada

Awards

🥇 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.

🥇 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 Internet services, while hCaptcha is more commonly used on online shopping and fashion and beauty sites.

Business

Online Shopping

Marketing/Merchandising

Internet Services

Education/Reference

Health

Blogs/Wiki

Travel

Entertainment

Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO