⚡ Spam Protection in Ireland

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

Ireland is a Western European country with a population of over 5.1 million people.

According to our statistics, spam protection software is used on 22.8% of websites from Ireland.

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is reCAPTCHA, which dominates the market with a substantial 59.7% share.
It is followed by Cloudflare Email Obfuscation with 26.5% and hCaptcha with 15.7%.

reCAPTCHA 59.7%
Cloudflare Email Obfuscation 26.5%
hCaptcha 15.7%
Cloudflare Turnstile 6.1%
Akismet 4.7%
CleanTalk 2.8%
Altcha 0.1%
Friendly Captcha 0.1%
GeeTest 0.07%
Tencent Captcha 0.03%

🚀 Highlights

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

7. Altcha ^(-2)
9. GeeTest ^(-1)
10. Tencent Captcha ^(-1)

✨ Best Spam Protection Software

Below is a more detailed list of 10 spam protection software solutions used on sites from Ireland, 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	59.7%
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	26.5%
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	15.7%
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$$$	6.1%
5	Akismet San Francisco, California, United States A comment spam filtering service originally developed for WordPress that can also be integrated with other CMS and forums. Free$14.95/month	4.7%
6	CleanTalk Carson City, Nevada, United States A cloud-based anti-spam protection service that protects websites from spambots. $12+/year	2.8%
7	Altcha Brno, Czech Republic An open-source, privacy-first, self-hosted captcha alternative that uses a proof-of-work mechanism to protect websites, APIs and online services from spam and unwanted content. FreeOpen source€24+/month	0.1%
8	Friendly Captcha Woerthsee, Germany A European captcha service that protects websites from bots and automated abuse while prioritizing user privacy, security, and accessibility. Free€9+/month	0.1%
9	GeeTest Wuhan, China A Chinese provider of CAPTCHA and bot management solutions. $$$	0.07%
10	Tencent Captcha Shenzhen, China Provides web and app developers with comprehensive human verification services through slider CAPTCHAs. Free tier$0.005+	0.03%

👉 See Also

🌎 Spam Protection in other countries

Data is based on the analysis of 13,358 websites from Ireland.
Statistics were last calculated on March 30, 2026.
For details, see our methodology and disclaimer.