Mollom Alternatives

Mollom is described as 'Freemium web service to get rid of spam, unwanted content and fake users on your Drupal, Wordpress and Joomla site or blog' and is an website. There are more than 10 alternatives to Mollom, not only websites but also apps for a variety of platforms, including Self-Hosted, Wordpress, SaaS and PHP apps. The best Mollom alternative is Cap Captcha, which is both free and Open Source. Other great sites and apps similar to Mollom are reCAPTCHA, Antispam Bee, IronWall and hCaptcha.

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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 Mollom.

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

    • Cap Captcha is Free and Open SourceMollom is Freemium and Proprietary
    • Cap Captcha is Customizable, Lightweight and Privacy focusedMollom is not according to our users
  2. 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
     
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    Mollom analyzes content, whereas reCAPTCHA performs checks on the visitor. Both are useful anti-spam techniques, but they aren't equivalent.

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    • reCAPTCHA is the most popular Web-based alternative to Mollom.

    • reCAPTCHA is Freemium and ProprietaryMollom is also Freemium and Proprietary
  3. Antispam Bee icon
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    Say Goodbye to comment spam on your WordPress blog or website. Antispam Bee blocks spam comments and trackbacks effectively, without captchas and without sending personal information to third party services. It is free of charge, ad-free and 100% GDPR compliant.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Wordpress
     
  4. IronWall icon
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    IronWall is a Proof-of-Work (PoW) rate-limiting protocol designed to protect high-value API endpoints (AI generation, Auth, SMS triggers) from automated abuse.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
    • IronWall is the most popular SaaS alternative to Mollom.

    • IronWall is Freemium and Open SourceMollom is Freemium and Proprietary
    • IronWall is Privacy focused and LightweightMollom is not according to our users
  5. 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.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  6. 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 (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Python
    • JavaScript
    • Drupal
    • Django
    • PHP
    • Mautic
    • Wordpress
     
  7. Akismet icon
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    Akismet checks your comments and contact form submissions against our global database of spam to prevent your site from publishing malicious content.

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Wordpress
     
  8. StopForumSpam icon
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    Your favorite and most trusted "one stop shop" for the prevention of forum & blog spam, trusted by over 200,000 forums...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
     
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    It allows you to filter and search for spammer comments on your channel and other's channel(s) in many different ways AND delete/report them all at once (see features below).

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
    • YouTube Spammer Purge is the most popular Windows, Mac & Linux alternative to Mollom.

    • YouTube Spammer Purge is Free and Open SourceMollom is Freemium and Proprietary
  10. CleanTalk icon
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    Anti-Spam Features. CleanTalk protects your website from spam bots and spam in Comments, Orders, Widgets, Registrations, Bookings, And any custom web form, Contact Emails, Subscriptions, Checks the existing comments and users for spam.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Wordpress
     
  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
     
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