⚡ 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 23.4% of websites from Portugal.

Statistics based on 16K+ analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ 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 65.8% share.
It is followed by Cloudflare Email Obfuscation with 20% and hCaptcha with 17.8%.

reCAPTCHA 65.8%
Cloudflare Email Obfuscation 20%
hCaptcha 17.8%
Cloudflare Turnstile 11.3%
Akismet 1.8%
CleanTalk 1.3%
Friendly Captcha 0.2%
GeeTest 0.03%
Altcha 0.03%
MTCaptcha 0.03%
Yandex SmartCaptcha 0.03%
BitNinja 0.03%
Cap 0.03%

🚀 Highlights

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

7. Friendly Captcha ^(-1)
8. GeeTest ^(-2)
10. MTCaptcha ^(-2)
12. BitNinja ^(-2)
13. Cap ^(-2)

✨ Best Spam Protection Software

Below is a more detailed list of 13 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	65.8%
2	Cloudflare Email Obfuscation San Francisco, California, United States A Cloudflare Scrape Shield security feature that encrypts email addresses in HTML to hide them from harvesting bots and keep them visible and clickable for human visitors. Free$25+/month	20%
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	17.8%
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$$$	11.3%
5	Akismet San Francisco, California, United States A comment spam filtering service originally developed for WordPress that can also be integrated with other CMS and forums. Free$14.95/month	1.8%
6	CleanTalk Carson City, Nevada, United States A cloud-based anti-spam service that protects websites from automated spam in online forms, comments, and registrations. $12+/year	1.3%
7	Friendly Captcha Woerthsee, Germany A European captcha service that protects websites from bots and automated abuse while prioritizing user privacy, security, and accessibility. Free€9+/month	0.2%
8	GeeTest Wuhan, China A Chinese bot management and CAPTCHA platform that uses behavioral analysis, machine learning, and device fingerprinting to distinguish human users from automated traffic. $$$	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€99+/month	0.03%
10	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%
11	Yandex SmartCaptcha Moscow, Russia A captcha and bot protection service from the Russian technology company Yandex. Free tier$0.80	0.03%
12	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%
13	Cap Lisbon, Portugal An open-source, self-hosted reCAPTCHA alternative that verifies visitors without visual puzzles, tracking, or third-party services. FreeOpen source	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 16,496 websites from Portugal.
We currently track the presence of 18 spam protection software solutions across the web.
Of these, 13 were detected on websites from Portugal.
Statistics were last calculated on September 27, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.