Friendly Captcha - Privacy-First Bot Protection

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Truly Invisible CAPTCHA

Protect your websites and apps from spam and abuse with a privacy-compliant and accessible alternative to traditional CAPTCHAs. Friendly Captcha respects your user’s privacy and works automatically, so your users don’t have to do anything.

Trusted by the world’s leading organizations

The accessible, privacy-compliant CAPTCHA alternative

Prevent bots. Ensure privacy.

Based on proof-of-work mechanisms and advanced risk signals, Friendly Captcha employs a fundamentally new approach to securely defend your websites and online services from bots and spam.

Friendly Captcha doesn’t track your users. It is compliant with GDPR, CCPA, and global privacy regulations. Plus, your users no longer have to deal with tedious labeling tasks. They don’t have to do anything at all.

Truly invisible CAPTCHA challenge

Experience Friendly Captcha yourself.

Friendly Captcha is the first truly invisible CAPTCHA based on proof-of-work. Instead of prompting any visible challenge to the end user, it checks the end user’s device in the background.

Friendly Captcha generates a unique crypto puzzle for each user’s device. As soon as the user starts to fill in a protected form, it will be solved automatically. Solving it will usually take a few seconds. By the time the user is ready to submit, the puzzle is probably already solved.

Why Friendly Captcha

European Captcha.
Made for the world.

We are a German company with a globally distributed team working to the highest German quality and data protection standards. With cutting-edge technologies, we protect your organization from bots.

Defend against bots

Based on proof-of-work mechanisms and advanced risk signals, Friendly Captcha deters spam and abuse consistently.

Protect your users' privacy

Friendly Captcha is privacy-first and fully GDPR-compliant. We don't store personal data from your users.

Improve user experience

Friendly Captcha is completely automated and fully accessible. Your users no longer have to deal with tedious labeling tasks.

Scale reliably

With data centers in the EU, US, Asia and around the world, we process millions of requests every day at highest availability.

Designed for developers

Easily integrate our powerful APIs.

Adding Friendly Captcha takes only minutes and just a few lines of code. Our API is compatible with other CAPTCHAs, allowing you to switch quickly. In addition, we offer a range of ready-to-use, open source CAPTCHA integrations for popular software such as WordPress.

Tools for every stack

We offer powerful APIs and open source libraries to add Friendly Captcha to your app.

Prebuilt integrations

Use our CAPTCHA integrations for popular software like WordPress, and more.

<!– Add the widget script –>
<script type="module" src="https://yourdomain.com/friendly-challenge@1.7.4/widget.module.min.js" async defer></script>

<!– Add the widget itself –>
<div class="frc-captcha" data-sitekey="FCMV995O03V7RIMQ"></div>

POST https://api.friendlycaptcha.com/api/v1/siteverify

Plans & Pricing

Find the plan that fits your needs.

Starter

Basic single domain protection for low traffic websites.

  • 1 protected domain
  • Up to 1,000 requests / month
  • Privacy-friendly protection
  • No image labeling tasks for users
  • User-friendly and fully accessible

Growth

Enhanced multi-domain security with stats for small businesses.

All the benefits of Starter, and:

  • Up to 5 protected domains
  • Up to 5,000 requests / month
  • Usage statistics

Advanced

Comprehensive security choice with additional protection features for mid-sized companies.

All the benefits of Growth, and:

  • Up to 50 protected domains
  • Up to 50,000 requests / month
  • Automatic risk detection and smart difficulty scaling
  • Dedicated data centers (e.g. EU only)
  • 99.9% guaranteed uptime
  • User management
  • Online support

Enterprise

High-end security, scalability, and compliance with specialized support for enterprises.

All the benefits of Advanced, and:

  • Unlimited protected domains
  • Unlimited requests / month
  • Professional analytics features
  • Reporting capabilities
  • App-specific difficulty controls
  • Single sign-on, enhanced access control and audit logs
  • Self-hosted endpoint option
  • Software engineer support
  • Assistance with your procurement and evaluation processes

Free CAPTCHA for non-commercial use

Friendly Captcha offers a free CAPTCHA for non-commercial websites with low traffic.

  • 1 protected domain
  • Up to 1,000 requests / month
  • Privacy-friendly protection
  • No image labeling tasks for users
  • User-friendly and fully accessible

Ready to get started?

Join thousands of organizations in switching to a privacy-first anti-bot solution. We protect your websites and online services with the highest German quality and data protection standards.

Privacy matters

Learn more about our commitment to protect your users' privacy.

Start your integration

Adding Friendly Captcha takes only minutes and just a few lines of code.