⚡ Spam Protection in Bulgaria

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

Bulgaria is a Southeastern European country with a population of around 6.5 million people.

According to our statistics, spam protection software is used on 17.7% of websites from Bulgaria.

Statistics based on 14K+ analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is reCAPTCHA with an impressive share of 49.2%, followed by Cloudflare Email Obfuscation with 43.3% and hCaptcha with 11.5%.

reCAPTCHA 49.2%
Cloudflare Email Obfuscation 43.3%
hCaptcha 11.5%
Cloudflare Turnstile 8.1%
CleanTalk 1.3%
Akismet 1%
Altcha 0.04%
Friendly Captcha 0.04%
MTCaptcha 0.04%

🚀 Highlights

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

5. CleanTalk ^(-1)
7. Altcha ^(-2)
9. MTCaptcha ^(-3)

✨ Best Spam Protection Software

Below is a more detailed list of 9 spam protection software solutions used on sites from Bulgaria, 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	49.2%
2	Cloudflare Email Obfuscation San Francisco, California, United States A Cloudflare Scrape Shield security feature that encrypts email addresses in HTML to hide them from harvesting bots and keep them visible and clickable for human visitors. Free$25+/month	43.3%
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	11.5%
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$$$	8.1%
5	CleanTalk Carson City, Nevada, United States A cloud-based anti-spam service that protects websites from automated spam in online forms, comments, and registrations. $12+/year	1.3%
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%
7	Altcha Brno, Czechia 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	0.04%
8	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	0.04%
9	MTCaptcha Mountain View, California, United States An enterprise captcha service that provides bot detection and human verification with a focus on GDPR compliance and accessibility. Free$29+/month	0.04%

👉 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 14,979 websites from Bulgaria.
We currently track the presence of 18 spam protection software solutions across the web.
Of these, 9 were detected on websites from Bulgaria.
Statistics were last calculated on November 12, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.