Cloudflare Bot Management vs hCaptcha

Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.

Top sites by authority

Cloudflare Bot Management · hCaptcha · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers

Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.

By country

Cloudflare Bot Management · hCaptcha · share of sites in each country using one or the other

United States 818,964

19,675

United Kingdom 228,783

8,484

India 217,725

6,784

Brazil 185,718

5,503

Canada 182,048

5,922

Germany 161,903

8,642

France 141,695

9,141

Japan 143,002

2,804

Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.

Real user performance

Median site's p75 values from the Chrome UX Report, Sep 2026. Lower is better; green meets Google's "good" threshold. This describes the sites that use each technology, not the technology's own overhead.

Sites that switched

Domains that dropped one technology and adopted the other within about a year, data nobody else gives away free.

All Cloudflare Bot Management sites · All hCaptcha sites