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 791,088

19,593

United Kingdom 216,363

8,220

India 213,650

6,827

Brazil 177,454

5,585

Canada 174,702

5,763

Germany 157,114

8,518

France 131,729

8,924

Japan 136,510

2,767

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, 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.

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