hCaptcha vs reCAPTCHA

reCAPTCHA is used by more websites in our catalog: 4,483 use hCaptcha and 131,825 use reCAPTCHA.

reCAPTCHA sites have the higher median Ahrefs Domain Rating (hCaptcha: 25, reCAPTCHA: 27).

Between 2026-06 and 2026-07, hCaptcha went from 0.57% to 0.51% of all tracked sites, while reCAPTCHA went from 16% to 15%. hCaptcha is gaining ground faster in our index.

535 websites in our catalog use both hCaptcha and reCAPTCHA.

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.