A side-by-side comparison of two captcha & bot-defense tools, based on the 146,814 CAPTCHA sites tracked by Site Stats Database.
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| Metric | Cloudflare Turnstile | hCaptcha |
|---|---|---|
| Websites | 10,973 | 4,483 |
| Market share | 7.5% | 3.1% |
| Share of top 10K sites | 0.96% | 0.34% |
| Share of top 100K sites |
|---|
| 1.4% |
| 0.40% |
| Rank | #2 | #3 |
|---|
| Median DR | 31 | 25 |
|---|
| Average DR | 33 | 28 |
|---|
| Median keywords | 1,093 | 840 |
|---|
| Median referring domains | 422 | 274 |
|---|
| Median domain age | 14 yrs | 13 yrs |
|---|
| Average domain age | 15 yrs | 14 yrs |
|---|
| Average monthly traffic | 63,375 | 45,640 |
|---|
| Combined monthly traffic | 695,408,703 | 204,605,645 |
|---|
Monthly snapshots of each segment, 2026-06 to 2026-07. Website counts move when our catalog grows; the share of tracked sites is normalized, so it only moves when real prevalence changes.
Websites
Share of tracked sites
Combined monthly traffic
10,973 websites · rank #2
Top industries
Top markets
4,483 websites · rank #3
Top industries
Top markets
Cloudflare Turnstile is used by more websites in our catalog: 10,973 use Cloudflare Turnstile and 4,483 use hCaptcha.
Cloudflare Turnstile sites have the higher median Ahrefs Domain Rating (Cloudflare Turnstile: 31, hCaptcha: 25).
Between 2026-06 and 2026-07, Cloudflare Turnstile went from 1.4% to 1.2% of all tracked sites, while hCaptcha went from 0.57% to 0.51%. hCaptcha is gaining ground faster in our index.
56 websites in our catalog use both Cloudflare Turnstile and hCaptcha.
Adoption is counted from Site Stats Database's own crawl; Domain Rating comes from Ahrefs and traffic from DataForSEO. Figures reflect the sites we track and refresh at least monthly.
Citation
Site Stats Database. "Cloudflare Turnstile vs hCaptcha." Site Stats Database, July 1, 2026. https://sitestatsdb.com/technologies/captcha/compare/cloudflare-turnstile-vs-hcaptcha
Site Stats Database tracks 10,973 websites using Cloudflare Turnstile and 4,483 using hCaptcha, each enriched with full monthly traffic history, authority, keywords, referring domains, and the complete detected tech stack. We detect every CAPTCHA / bot-defense tool by crawling each site's HTML, response headers, and DNS; traffic and SEO metrics come from DataForSEO and Ahrefs. Everything refreshes at least monthly.
See plans & pricing| English |
| 76 |
| 1,225,725 |
| 26,020 |
| 17 yrs |
| 17,357,153 |
| Cloudflare Turnstile |
| nist.gov | English | 92 | 317,267 | 173,856 | 28 yrs | 12,700,753 | Cloudflare Turnstile |
| gimmesomeoven.com | English | 78 | 267,376 | 48,731 | 16 yrs | 12,685,710 | Cloudflare Turnstile |
| joyfoodsunshine.com | English | 70 | 125,691 | 15,200 | 10 yrs | 10,591,215 | Cloudflare Turnstile |
| wiley.com | English | 93 | 1,227,892 | 697,030 | 31 yrs | 9,029,335 | Cloudflare Turnstile |
| halfbakedharvest.com | English | 78 | 280,904 | 26,597 | 14 yrs | 8,849,843 | Cloudflare Turnstile |
| spotrac.com | English | 75 | 300,791 | 15,489 | 18 yrs | 8,631,092 | Cloudflare Turnstile |
| hillspet.com | English | 80 | 206,722 | 21,021 | 31 yrs | 7,886,872 | Cloudflare Turnstile |
| pewresearch.org | English | 92 | 278,427 | 241,793 | 22 yrs | 7,153,311 | Cloudflare Turnstile |
| Korean |
| 85 |
| 1,767,497 |
| 45,388 |
| 11 yrs |
| 8,618,490 |
| hCaptcha |
| onthesnow.com | English | 72 | 120,731 | 9,378 | 27 yrs | 7,953,063 | hCaptcha |
| har.com | English | 83 | 445,885 | 15,143 | 30 yrs | 6,175,366 | hCaptcha |
| lsusports.net | English | 72 | 64,699 | 13,681 | 27 yrs | 5,902,071 | hCaptcha |
| biologyonline.com | English | 72 | 206,401 | 11,428 | 27 yrs | 4,864,746 | hCaptcha |
| supersimple.com | English | 66 | 57,942 | 10,776 | 24 yrs | 3,903,768 | hCaptcha |
| dish.com | English | 79 | 58,182 | 14,687 | 30 yrs | 2,521,723 | hCaptcha |
| globo.com | Portuguese | 91 | 153,121 | 337,283 | 27 yrs | 2,354,128 | hCaptcha |
| tutorialspoint.com | English | 84 | 518,720 | 43,160 | 19 yrs | 2,257,808 | hCaptcha |