⚡ Spam Protection in China

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

China is an East Asian country with a population of around 1.4 billion people.

According to our statistics, spam protection software is used on 4.9% of websites from China.

Statistics based on 84K+ analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is Cloudflare Email Obfuscation, which dominates the market with an overwhelming 72.1% share.
It is followed by reCAPTCHA with 10.9% and hCaptcha with 10.5%.

Cloudflare Email Obfuscation 72.1%
reCAPTCHA 10.9%
hCaptcha 10.5%
Tencent Captcha 3%
Cloudflare Turnstile 2.5%
Yidun Captcha 1.9%
GeeTest 1.7%
Akismet 1.7%
CleanTalk 1%
Vaptcha 0.1%
Friendly Captcha 0.1%
MTCaptcha 0.05%

🚀 Highlights

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

1. Cloudflare Email Obfuscation ^(-1)
4. Tencent Captcha ^(-7)
6. Yidun Captcha ^(-7)
7. GeeTest ^(-3)
10. Vaptcha ^(-7)

✨ Best Spam Protection Software

Below is a more detailed list of 12 spam protection software solutions used on sites from China, ranked by their market share.

Rank	Name	Market share
1	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	72.1%
2	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	10.9%
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	10.5%
4	Tencent Captcha Shenzhen, China Provides web and app developers with comprehensive human verification services through slider CAPTCHAs. Free tier$0.005+	3%
5	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$$$	2.5%
6	Yidun Captcha Hangzhou, China A captcha service provided by the Chinese company NetEase.	1.9%
7	GeeTest Wuhan, China A Chinese provider of CAPTCHA and bot management solutions. $$$	1.7%
8	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%
9	CleanTalk Carson City, Nevada, United States A cloud-based anti-spam protection service that protects websites from spambots. $12+/year	1%
10	Vaptcha China A new type of human-machine verification solution based on AI and Big Data. Free$$$	0.1%
11	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	0.1%
12	MTCaptcha Mountain View, California, United States A GDPR and WCAG compliant enterprise captcha service. Free tier$29+/month	0.05%

👉 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 84,081 websites from China.
We currently track the presence of 17 spam protection software solutions across the web.
Of these, 12 were detected on websites from China.
Statistics were last calculated on May 14, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.