Alibaba Cloud Verification Code vs reCAPTCHA
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
Alibaba Cloud Verification Code · reCAPTCHA · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
0
160
Open Page Rank 8+
13
2,957
Open Page Rank 7+
15
13,189
Open Page Rank 6+
18
27,222
Open Page Rank 5+
18
49,830
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
Alibaba Cloud Verification Code · reCAPTCHA · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
119
534,273
India
63
197,700
United Kingdom
58
181,539
Japan
101
172,940
Brazil
52
145,709
France
51
145,372
Canada
58
138,940
Spain
44
131,068
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Alibaba Cloud Verification Code | reCAPTCHA |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.9 s | 2 s |
| INP | 75 ms | 75 ms |
| CLS | 0.05 | 0 |
| TTFB | 600 ms | 900 ms |
Median site's p75 values from the Chrome UX Report, Aug 2026. Lower is better; green meets Google's "good" threshold. This describes the sites that use each technology, not the technology's own overhead.
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