⚡ Spam Protection in Belgium

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

Belgium is a Western European country with a population of over 12 million people.

According to our statistics, spam protection software is used on 17.2% of websites from Belgium.

Statistics based on 28K+ analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is reCAPTCHA, which dominates the market with an overwhelming 74.5% share.
It is followed by Cloudflare Email Obfuscation with 15% and hCaptcha with 9.9%.

reCAPTCHA 74.5%
Cloudflare Email Obfuscation 15%
hCaptcha 9.9%
Cloudflare Turnstile 4.8%
CleanTalk 2.6%
Akismet 1.9%
Friendly Captcha 0.4%
Altcha 0.2%
MTCaptcha 0.04%
GeeTest 0.02%
BitNinja 0.02%

🚀 Highlights

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

5. CleanTalk ^(-1)
8. Altcha ^(-1)
9. MTCaptcha ^(-3)
11. BitNinja ^(-3)

✨ Best Spam Protection Software

Below is a more detailed list of 11 spam protection software solutions used on sites from Belgium, 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	74.5%
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	15%
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	9.9%
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$$$	4.8%
5	CleanTalk Carson City, Nevada, United States A cloud-based anti-spam protection service that protects websites from spambots. $12+/year	2.6%
6	Akismet San Francisco, California, United States A comment spam filtering service originally developed for WordPress that can also be integrated with other CMS and forums. Free$14.95/month	1.9%
7	Friendly Captcha Woerthsee, Germany A European captcha service that protects websites from bots and automated abuse while prioritizing user privacy, security, and accessibility. Free€9+/month	0.4%
8	Altcha Brno, Czech Republic An open-source, privacy-first, self-hosted captcha alternative that uses a proof-of-work mechanism to protect websites, APIs, and online services from spam and unwanted content. FreeOpen source€99+/month	0.2%
9	MTCaptcha Mountain View, California, United States A GDPR and WCAG compliant enterprise captcha service. Free tier$29+/month	0.04%
10	GeeTest Wuhan, China A Chinese provider of CAPTCHA and bot management solutions. $$$	0.02%
11	BitNinja Debrecen, Hungary A server security suite with a centralized dashboard containing an AI-powered Linux malware scanner, IP reputation, WAF, and spam detection. Free$5+/month	0.02%

👉 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 28,450 websites from Belgium.
We currently track the presence of 17 spam protection software solutions across the web.
Of these, 11 were detected on websites from Belgium.
Statistics were last calculated on May 14, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.