Best Captcha Services · FREE
Best free Captcha Services (2026)
6 captcha services that offer a genuine free plan, ranked by entry price. Every figure links to the public page it was captured from — the vendor's own wherever the vendor publishes the number, otherwise the named public source — with the date we captured it.
Key takeaways
- Cheapest: Cloudflare Turnstile at $0/mo.
- Qualifying: Cloudflare Turnstile, Friendly Captcha, GeeTest, hCaptcha, MTCaptcha, reCAPTCHA Enterprise.
- Data current through: 2026-10-12. STALE marks a row whose price we have not re-checked at its source in over 30 days; a vendor with no published price is marked when any of its plans is. 1 of 6 rows below is marked.
Comparison
| # | Captcha Service | Entry price | Free | HIPAA | SOC 2 | Best for | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cloudflare Turnstile | $0/mo | Yes | — | Yes | developers and indie builders needing free unlimited captcha | developers.cloudflare.com |
| 2 | Friendly Captcha STALE · 2026-09-02 | $0/mo | Yes | No | No | EU-based businesses | friendlycaptcha.com |
| 3 | GeeTest | $0/mo | Yes | No | No | Asia-Pacific market enterprises | geetest.com |
| 4 | hCaptcha | $0/mo | Yes | No | Yes | privacy-conscious teams | hcaptcha.com |
| 5 | MTCaptcha | $0/mo | Yes | No | No | accessibility-sensitive applications | mtcaptcha.com |
| 6 | reCAPTCHA Enterprise | $0/mo | Yes | Yes | — | Google Cloud-native apps | docs.cloud.google.com |