⚡ Spam Protection in the United Kingdom

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

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (UK) is a Western European country with a population of over 67 million people.

According to our statistics, spam protection software is used on 23.6% of websites from the United Kingdom.

Statistics based on 165K+ analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is reCAPTCHA with a substantial share of 55.8%, followed by Cloudflare Email Obfuscation with 28.7% and hCaptcha with 18.5%.

reCAPTCHA 55.8%
Cloudflare Email Obfuscation 28.7%
hCaptcha 18.5%
Cloudflare Turnstile 6.4%
CleanTalk 3.3%
Akismet 3.1%
Altcha 0.1%
Friendly Captcha 0.08%
Human Presence 0.02%
GeeTest 0.01%
BitNinja 0.008%
Yandex SmartCaptcha 0.003%

🚀 Highlights

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

5. CleanTalk ^(-1)
7. Altcha ^(-2)
9. Human Presence ^(-6)
11. BitNinja ^(-3)

✨ Best Spam Protection Software

Below is a more detailed list of 12 spam protection software solutions used on sites from the United Kingdom, 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	55.8%
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	28.7%
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	18.5%
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$$$	6.4%
5	CleanTalk Carson City, Nevada, United States A cloud-based anti-spam protection service that protects websites from spambots. $12+/year	3.3%
6	Akismet San Francisco, California, United States A comment spam filtering service originally developed for WordPress that can also be integrated with other CMS and forums. Free$14.95/month	3.1%
7	Altcha Brno, Czech Republic An open-source, privacy-first, self-hosted captcha alternative that uses a proof-of-work mechanism to protect websites, APIs, and online services from spam and unwanted content. FreeOpen source€99+/month	0.1%
8	Friendly Captcha Woerthsee, Germany A European captcha service that protects websites from bots and automated abuse while prioritizing user privacy, security, and accessibility. Free€9+/month	0.08%
9	Human Presence Greenville, South Carolina, United States Web security software that identified human website visitors through human behavior analysis and proprietary machine learning algorithms. Free$3.99+/month	0.02%
10	GeeTest Wuhan, China A Chinese provider of CAPTCHA and bot management solutions. $$$	0.01%
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	0.008%
12	Yandex SmartCaptcha Moscow, Russia A captcha service from the Russian company Yandex. Free tier$0.80	0.003%

👉 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 165,487 websites from the United Kingdom.
We currently track the presence of 17 spam protection software solutions across the web.
Of these, 12 were detected on websites from the United Kingdom.
Statistics were last calculated on May 14, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.