⚡ Spam Protection in Portugal

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

Portugal is a Southern European country with a population of around 10.3 million people.

According to our statistics, spam protection software is used on 20.1% of websites from Portugal.

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is reCAPTCHA, which dominates the market with an overwhelming 71.2% share.
It is followed by Cloudflare Email Obfuscation with 22.2% and hCaptcha with 9.6%.

reCAPTCHA 71.2%
Cloudflare Email Obfuscation 22.2%
hCaptcha 9.6%
Cloudflare Turnstile 4.9%
Akismet 1.9%
CleanTalk 1.3%
Friendly Captcha 0.2%
GeeTest 0.03%
Altcha 0.03%
Yandex SmartCaptcha 0.03%
BitNinja 0.03%

🚀 Highlights

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

8. GeeTest ^(-2)
11. BitNinja ^(-2)

✨ Best Spam Protection Software

Below is a more detailed list of 11 spam protection software solutions used on sites from Portugal, 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	71.2%
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	22.2%
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	9.6%
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$$$	4.9%
5	Akismet San Francisco, California, United States A comment spam filtering service originally developed for WordPress that can also be integrated with other CMS and forums. Free$14.95/month	1.9%
6	CleanTalk Carson City, Nevada, United States A cloud-based anti-spam protection service that protects websites from spambots. $12+/year	1.3%
7	Friendly Captcha Woerthsee, Germany A European captcha service that protects websites from bots and automated abuse while prioritizing user privacy, security, and accessibility. Free€9+/month	0.2%
8	GeeTest Wuhan, China A Chinese provider of CAPTCHA and bot management solutions. $$$	0.03%
9	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	0.03%
10	Yandex SmartCaptcha Moscow, Russia A captcha service from the Russian company Yandex. Free tier$0.80	0.03%
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	0.03%

👉 See Also

🌎 Spam Protection in other countries

Data is based on the analysis of 14,630 websites from Portugal.
Statistics were last calculated on March 21, 2026.
For details, see our methodology and disclaimer.