⚡ Spam Protection in France

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

France is a Western European country with a population of around 69 million people.

According to our statistics, spam protection software is used on 16.8% of websites from France.

Statistics based on 125K+ analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is reCAPTCHA, which dominates the market with an overwhelming 66.3% share.
It is followed by hCaptcha with 19.4% and Cloudflare Email Obfuscation with 11.8%.

reCAPTCHA 66.3%
hCaptcha 19.4%
Cloudflare Email Obfuscation 11.8%
Cloudflare Turnstile 9.4%
Akismet 2.6%
CleanTalk 2.1%
Altcha 0.3%
Friendly Captcha 0.3%
MTCaptcha 0.07%
GeeTest 0.01%
Tencent Captcha 0.005%

🚀 Highlights

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

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

✨ Best Spam Protection Software

Below is a more detailed list of 11 spam protection software solutions used on sites from France, 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	66.3%
2	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	19.4%
3	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	11.8%
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$$$	9.4%
5	Akismet San Francisco, California, United States A comment spam filtering service originally developed for WordPress that can also be integrated with other CMS and forums. Free$14.95/month	2.6%
6	CleanTalk Carson City, Nevada, United States A cloud-based anti-spam service that protects websites from automated spam in online forms, comments, and registrations. $12+/year	2.1%
7	Altcha Brno, Czech Republic An open-source, privacy-first, self-hosted captcha alternative that uses a proof-of-work mechanism to protect websites, APIs, and online services from spam and unwanted content. FreeOpen source€99+/month	0.3%
8	Friendly Captcha Woerthsee, Germany A European captcha service that protects websites from bots and automated abuse while prioritizing user privacy, security, and accessibility. Free€9+/month	0.3%
9	MTCaptcha Mountain View, California, United States An enterprise captcha service that provides bot detection and human verification with a focus on GDPR compliance and accessibility. Free$29+/month	0.07%
10	GeeTest Wuhan, China A Chinese bot management and CAPTCHA platform that uses behavioral analysis, machine learning, and device fingerprinting to distinguish human users from automated traffic. $$$	0.01%
11	Tencent Captcha Shenzhen, China Provides web and app developers with comprehensive human verification services through slider CAPTCHAs. Free tier$0.005+	0.005%

👉 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 125,878 websites from France.
We currently track the presence of 18 spam protection software solutions across the web.
Of these, 11 were detected on websites from France.
Statistics were last calculated on August 13, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.