⚡ Spam Protection in Russia

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

Russia is a Eurasian country with a population of around 144 million people.

According to our statistics, spam protection software is used on 12.9% of websites from Russia.

Statistics based on 99K+ analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is reCAPTCHA, which dominates the market with an overwhelming 68.2% share.
It is followed by Cloudflare Email Obfuscation with 18.1% and Yandex SmartCaptcha with 11.9%.

reCAPTCHA 68.2%
Cloudflare Email Obfuscation 18.1%
Yandex SmartCaptcha 11.9%
Akismet 2%
hCaptcha 2%
Cloudflare Turnstile 1.8%
CleanTalk 1.8%
Altcha 0.07%
GeeTest 0.03%
Friendly Captcha 0.02%
BitNinja 0.008%

🚀 Highlights

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

3. Yandex SmartCaptcha ^(-4)
4. Akismet ^(-1)
8. Altcha ^(-1)
9. GeeTest ^(-1)
11. BitNinja ^(-3)

✨ Best Spam Protection Software

Below is a more detailed list of 11 spam protection software solutions used on sites from Russia, 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	68.2%
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	18.1%
3	Yandex SmartCaptcha Moscow, Russia A captcha and bot protection service from the Russian technology company Yandex. Free tier$0.80	11.9%
4	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	2%
5	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	2%
6	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$$$	1.8%
7	CleanTalk Carson City, Nevada, United States A cloud-based anti-spam service that protects websites from automated spam in online forms, comments, and registrations. $12+/year	1.8%
8	Altcha Brno, Czech Republic An open-source, privacy-first, self-hosted captcha alternative that uses a proof-of-work mechanism to protect websites, APIs, and online services from spam and unwanted content. FreeOpen source€99+/month	0.07%
9	GeeTest Wuhan, China A Chinese bot management and CAPTCHA platform that uses behavioral analysis, machine learning, and device fingerprinting to distinguish human users from automated traffic. $$$	0.03%
10	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	0.02%
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%

👉 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 99,399 websites from Russia.
We currently track the presence of 18 spam protection software solutions across the web.
Of these, 11 were detected on websites from Russia.
Statistics were last calculated on August 13, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.