⚡ Spam Protection in Austria

Anti-spam software is a variety of tools that protect websites from automated bots and malicious content.

Austria is a Central European country with a population of over 9 million people.

According to our statistics, spam protection software is used on 9.3% of websites from Austria.

Statistics based on 30K+ analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

The following chart shows the top spam protection software in Austria in 2026, based on market share.

The most popular is reCAPTCHA, which dominates the market with an overwhelming 60.7% share.
It is followed by Cloudflare Email Obfuscation with 17.4% and hCaptcha with 14.7%.

reCAPTCHA 60.7%
Cloudflare Email Obfuscation 17.4%
hCaptcha 14.7%
Cloudflare Turnstile 6.7%
Friendly Captcha 3.9%
CleanTalk 3.3%
Akismet 1.3%
Altcha 1%
MTCaptcha 0.3%
GeeTest 0.03%

🚀 Highlights

Here is a list of the top solutions that is more popular in Austria than worldwide.
Differences between global and country rankings are shown in parentheses.

5. Friendly Captcha ^(-2)
8. Altcha ^(-1)
9. MTCaptcha ^(-3)

✨ Best Spam Protection Software

Below is a more detailed list of 10 spam protection software solutions used on sites from Austria, ranked by their market share.

Rank	Name	Market share
1	reCAPTCHA Mountain View, California, United States A Google service that protects websites from spam, fraud, and automated abuse by distinguishing human users from bots. Free tier$8+/month	60.7%
2	Cloudflare Email Obfuscation San Francisco, California, United States Cloudflare Email Address Obfuscation hides email addresses on web pages from bots by encrypting them. Free$25+/month	17.4%
3	hCaptcha San Francisco, California, United States A security service for detecting and preventing human and automated abuse on websites and applications, often used as a drop-in alternative to reCAPTCHA. Free$99+/month	14.7%
4	Cloudflare Turnstile San Francisco, California, United States A user-friendly CAPTCHA alternative that verifies human visitors without requiring them to solve interactive puzzles or identify objects. Free$$$	6.7%
5	Friendly Captcha Woerthsee, Germany A European captcha service that protects websites from bots and automated abuse while prioritizing user privacy, security, and accessibility. Free€9+/month	3.9%
6	CleanTalk Carson City, Nevada, United States A cloud-based anti-spam protection service that protects websites from spambots. $12+/year	3.3%
7	Akismet San Francisco, California, United States A comment spam filtering service originally developed for WordPress that can also be integrated with other CMS and forums. Free$14.95/month	1.3%
8	Altcha Brno, Czech Republic An open-source, privacy-first, self-hosted captcha alternative that uses a proof-of-work mechanism to protect websites, APIs, and online services from spam and unwanted content. FreeOpen source€99+/month	1%
9	MTCaptcha Mountain View, California, United States A GDPR and WCAG compliant enterprise captcha service. Free tier$29+/month	0.3%
10	GeeTest Wuhan, China A Chinese provider of CAPTCHA and bot management solutions. $$$	0.03%

👉 See Also

🌎 Spam Protection in other countries

🗃️ 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 30,740 websites from Austria.
We currently track the presence of 17 spam protection software solutions across the web.
Of these, 10 were detected on websites from Austria.
Statistics were last calculated on May 14, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.