⚡ Spam Protection in New Zealand

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

New Zealand is an Oceanian country with a population of over 5.1 million people.

According to our statistics, spam protection software is used on 25.5% of websites from New Zealand.

Statistics based on 14K+ analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is reCAPTCHA, which dominates the market with a substantial 55.7% share.
It is followed by Cloudflare Email Obfuscation with 27.3% and hCaptcha with 20.3%.

reCAPTCHA 55.7%
Cloudflare Email Obfuscation 27.3%
hCaptcha 20.3%
Cloudflare Turnstile 4.3%
Akismet 3.8%
CleanTalk 3.5%
GeeTest 0.03%
MTCaptcha 0.03%
Friendly Captcha 0.03%
Yidun Captcha 0.03%

🚀 Highlights

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

7. GeeTest ^(-3)
8. MTCaptcha ^(-4)
10. Yidun Captcha ^(-3)

✨ Best Spam Protection Software

Below is a more detailed list of 10 spam protection software solutions used on sites from New Zealand, 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	55.7%
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	27.3%
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	20.3%
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$$$	4.3%
5	Akismet San Francisco, California, United States A comment spam filtering service originally developed for WordPress that can also be integrated with other CMS and forums. Free$14.95/month	3.8%
6	CleanTalk Carson City, Nevada, United States A cloud-based anti-spam protection service that protects websites from spambots. $12+/year	3.5%
7	GeeTest Wuhan, China A Chinese bot management and CAPTCHA platform that uses behavioral analysis, machine learning, and device fingerprinting to distinguish human users from automated traffic. $$$	0.03%
8	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	0.03%
9	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	0.03%
10	Yidun Captcha Hangzhou, China A captcha service provided by the Chinese company NetEase.	0.03%

👉 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 14,653 websites from New Zealand.
We currently track the presence of 17 spam protection software solutions across the web.
Of these, 10 were detected on websites from New Zealand.
Statistics were last calculated on June 29, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.