Onfido vs reCAPTCHA
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
Onfido · reCAPTCHA · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
0
158
Open Page Rank 8+
5
2,942
Open Page Rank 7+
15
12,840
Open Page Rank 6+
21
26,339
Open Page Rank 5+
29
47,961
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
Onfido · reCAPTCHA · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
57
521,768
India
45
193,784
United Kingdom
66
180,414
Japan
20
171,305
France
43
146,342
Brazil
24
142,702
Spain
48
138,105
Canada
36
138,004
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Onfido | reCAPTCHA |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 2.2 s | 2 s |
| INP | 125 ms | 75 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 700 ms | 900 ms |
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.