CAPTCHA globally: market share ranking

Challenges on forms and pages.

#	Technology	Global	United Kingdom	Netherlands	Italy	Spain	Japan	Latin America
1	Google reCAPTCHA	7.1%	16%	12%	15%	17%	5.9%	15%
2	hCaptcha	1.7%	6.2%	2.5%	3.1%	2.4%	1.9%	4%
3	Cloudflare Turnstile	1.1%	1.3%	1.3%	1.4%	1.2%	0.9%	1.1%
4	Friendly Captcha	0.1%	0.1%	0.2%	<0.1%	0.2%	0%	<0.1%

By site popularity

Share of measured sites in each Tranco popularity band that use the technology: the top 1,000, 10,000 and 100,000 sites and the whole top million.

#	Technology	Top 1K	Top 10K	Top 100K
1	Google reCAPTCHA	5.2%	4.9%	7.1%
2	Cloudflare Turnstile	0.9%	1%	1.1%
3	hCaptcha	0.9%	0.5%	1.7%
4	Friendly Captcha	0.2%	<0.1%	0.1%
	Sites measured	582	6,676	68,774

Our crawler: 68,774 sites · Global · updated 13 Nov 2026 · Methodology