🆚 hCaptcha vs. reCAPTCHA
- 📈 reCAPTCHA is three times more popular than hCaptcha.
- 🌎 reCAPTCHA is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Spain.
- 🌍 hCaptcha is more popular in Pakistan, Gabon, and Niger.
hCaptchaType
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
cloud.google.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
- 🥇 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.
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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Google company profile🗃️ 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.