⚡ 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 16.2% of websites from France.

Statistics based on 120K+ 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 68% share.
It is followed by hCaptcha with 17.7% and Cloudflare Email Obfuscation with 12%.

reCAPTCHA 68%
hCaptcha 17.7%
Cloudflare Email Obfuscation 12%
Cloudflare Turnstile 7.5%
Akismet 2.7%
CleanTalk 2.2%
Altcha 0.3%
Friendly Captcha 0.3%
MTCaptcha 0.07%
GeeTest 0.02%
Tencent Captcha 0.005%
Human Presence 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)
12. Human Presence ^(-3)

✨ Best Spam Protection Software

Below is a more detailed list of 12 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	68%
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	17.7%
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	12%
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$$$	7.5%
5	Akismet San Francisco, California, United States A comment spam filtering service originally developed for WordPress that can also be integrated with other CMS and forums. Free$14.95/month	2.7%
6	CleanTalk Carson City, Nevada, United States A cloud-based anti-spam protection service that protects websites from spambots. $12+/year	2.2%
7	Altcha Brno, Czech Republic An open-source, privacy-first, self-hosted captcha alternative that uses a proof-of-work mechanism to protect websites, APIs, and online services from spam and unwanted content. FreeOpen source€99+/month	0.3%
8	Friendly Captcha Woerthsee, Germany A European captcha service that protects websites from bots and automated abuse while prioritizing user privacy, security, and accessibility. Free€9+/month	0.3%
9	MTCaptcha Mountain View, California, United States A GDPR and WCAG compliant enterprise captcha service. Free tier$29+/month	0.07%
10	GeeTest Wuhan, China A Chinese provider of CAPTCHA and bot management solutions. $$$	0.02%
11	Tencent Captcha Shenzhen, China Provides web and app developers with comprehensive human verification services through slider CAPTCHAs. Free tier$0.005+	0.005%
12	Human Presence Greenville, South Carolina, United States Web security software that identified human website visitors through human behavior analysis and proprietary machine learning algorithms. Free$3.99+/month	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 120,122 websites from France.
We currently track the presence of 17 spam protection software solutions across the web.
Of these, 12 were detected on websites from France.
Statistics were last calculated on May 14, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.