Sites using hCaptcha
Privacy-friendly bot-detection challenge service, marketed as a Google reCAPTCHA alternative.
Found via: Product Hunt 129 · Hacker News 7 · PeerPush 9 · StackScope Discovery (Indie) 27 · StackScope Wider Web 51
Figures on this page reflect sites found via StackScope Wider Web only. The "Found via" counts above always show every source. Reset
hCaptcha has been detected on 51 launches we've crawled, with 51 of those in July 2026 (0.1% of the month's launches so far). The 7-day rolling share is 0.1%, roughly steady week on week. Most recent detection was 4 days ago.
It's most commonly paired with Cloudflare, HSTS, and Sentry. By product type, the launches using it are most often Social (48%), Developer Tools (19%), and Finance (14%).
What kind of products ship with hCaptcha
21 launches
Countries that use hCaptcha
Estimated origin for 21 of 51 sites
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South Korea
33.33%
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Canada
14.29%
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India
14.29%
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New Zealand
9.52%
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Australia
4.76%
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China
4.76%
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United Kingdom
4.76%
Share of new launches using hCaptcha
Each dot is one launch day. Line is the 7-day rolling average.
Captcha leaders
| Tool | % of launches | % of category | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 |
Cloudflare Turnstile
|
1.18% | 94.35% | |
| #2 |
hCaptcha
Current page
|
0.09% | 6.85% | |
| #3 | NetEase Yidun | <0.01% | 0.27% | |
| #4 |
Friendly Captcha
|
<0.01% | 0.13% |
Percentages show adoption among launches found via StackScope Wider Web: the share of all such launches, and of those using any Captcha tool. All 4 in Captcha →
Often used with
| Tool | Launches |
|---|---|
Cloudflare
|
45 |
| HSTS | 39 |
Sentry
|
38 |
Cloudflare Bot Management
|
36 |
| HTTP/3 | 31 |
Tools most often detected on the same launches as hCaptcha.
51 sites across the wider web use hCaptcha
StackScope Wider Web counts newly launched sites that are not indie product launches. They shape the aggregate figures on this page but are never listed individually. How StackScope Discovery works · Back to launches