Cloudflare Bot Management vs reCAPTCHA

Cloudflare Bot Management is the more common of the two in our index: it runs on 13,391 websites against 6,513 for reCAPTCHA, and 1,705 sites use both. Counts come from real scans, not vendor claims.

Cloudflare Bot Management: 13,391
reCAPTCHA: 6,513

Cloudflare Bot Management

Cloudflare bot management solution identifies and mitigates automated traffic to protect websites from bad bots.

Indexed sites: 13,391
Share of Security: 30%

Well-known sites using it

All 13,391 sites

reCAPTCHA

reCAPTCHA is a free service from Google that helps protect websites from spam and abuse.

Indexed sites: 6,513
Share of Security: 15%

Well-known sites using it

All 6,513 sites

Used together

1,705 sites run both Cloudflare Bot Management and reCAPTCHA. That is 26% of the sites using reCAPTCHA, the smaller of the two.

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