EU Captcha Alternatives

EU Captcha is described as 'Multilingual captcha developed by and for EU countries' and is an app in the security & privacy category. There are more than 10 alternatives to EU Captcha for a variety of platforms, including Web-based, Self-Hosted, SaaS, PHP and Docker apps. The best EU Captcha alternative is Cap Captcha, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like EU Captcha are Anubis, reCAPTCHA, Private Captcha and ALTCHA.

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  1. Cap Captcha icon
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    Lightweight, modern open-source CAPTCHA alternative designed using SHA-256 proof-of-work.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Docker
     
    • Cap Captcha is the most popular Self-Hosted alternative to EU Captcha.

    • Cap Captcha is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to EU Captcha.

    • Cap Captcha is Free and Open SourceEU Captcha is also Free and Open Source
    • Cap Captcha is Customizable, Lightweight and Privacy focusedEU Captcha is not according to our users
  2. Anubis icon
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    Applies sha256 proof-of-work challenges to incoming HTTP requests, targeting AI crawlers, bots that ignore robots.txt, and automated scrapers, protecting server resources and preventing unwanted search engine indexing for privacy-focused sites.

    47 Anubis alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Go (Programming Language)
    • Docker
     
  3. reCAPTCHA icon
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    reCAPTCHA is a free service that protects your site from spam and abuse, using risk analysis techniques to tell humans and bots apart.

    28 reCAPTCHA alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
     
    • reCAPTCHA is the most popular Web-based alternative to EU Captcha.

    • reCAPTCHA is Freemium and ProprietaryEU Captcha is Free and Open Source
  4. Private Captcha icon
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    Private Captcha is an independent, privacy-first, self-hostable Proof-of-Work CAPTCHA service made in EU. Instead of asking users to solve complex puzzles or track their behavior, Private Captcha solves an invisible cryptographic task in the background.

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Docker
     
  5. ALTCHA icon
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    ALTCHA is a privacy-first solution built to help developers and website owners stop bots, spam, and automated abuse — without making things harder for real users. It replaces traditional CAPTCHA systems with a smarter, quieter approach to verification and threat detection.

    18 ALTCHA alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
    • ALTCHA is the most popular SaaS alternative to EU Captcha.

    • ALTCHA is Free and Open SourceEU Captcha is also Free and Open Source
    • ALTCHA is Privacy focused, Security-focused and LightweightEU Captcha is not according to our users
  6. hCaptcha icon
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    hCaptcha is designed to solve the most labor intensive problem in machine learning: labeling massive amounts of data in a timely, affordable, and reliable way.

    30 hCaptcha alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
     
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    Turnstile is Cloudflare's smart CAPTCHA alternative. It automatically chooses from a rotating suite of non-intrusive browser challenges based on telemetry and client behavior exhibited during a session.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
    • JavaScript
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  8. mCaptcha icon
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    A no-nonsense CAPTCHA system with seamless UX | Backend component.

    30 mCaptcha alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  9. mosparo icon
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    mosparo is the modern solution for protecting your online forms from spam. The protection method is quite simple: mosparo blocks spam using rules matching the form’s data. The detection method is comparable to an e-mail spam filter.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Python
    • JavaScript
    • Drupal
    • Django
    • PHP
    • Mautic
    • Wordpress
     
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    Friendly Captcha is a tool for preventing spam on your website.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  11. UniqPin icon
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    UniqPin is a free for non-commercial use service which destiny improve ability of interfaces detect a human or a computer operate with it.

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • JavaScript
    • PHP
     
  12. Sblam! icon
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    Open-source implementation of server-side spam filtering of blog comments and forum posts.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Online
     
    • Sblam! is the most popular Linux alternative to EU Captcha.

    • Sblam! is Free and ProprietaryEU Captcha is Free and Open Source
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