What is reCAPTCHA?
reCAPTCHA protects your website from fraud and abuse.
reCAPTCHA uses an advanced risk analysis engine and adaptive challenges to keep malicious software from engaging in abusive activities on your website. Meanwhile, legitimate users will be able to login, make purchases, view pages, or create accounts and fake users will be blocked.
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The reCAPTCHA
Advantage
Advantage
Proven
reCAPTCHA has been at the forefront of bot mitigation for over a decade and actively protects data for our network of four million sites.
Customer-friendly
A frictionless fraud detection service that stops bots and other automated attacks while approving valid users.
Adaptive
reCAPTCHA’s risk-based bot algorithms apply continuous machine learning that factors in every customer and bot interaction to overcome the binary heuristic logic of traditional challenge-based bot detection technologies.
Use Cases
Scraping
Content pilfering for ad revenue diversion or competitive use
Fraudulent Transactions
Purchase of goods or gift cards with stolen credit cards
Account Takeovers (ATO)
Credential stuffing to validate stolen accounts
Synthetic Accounts
Creation of new accounts for promotion value or future misuse
False Posts
Posting of malicious links or misinformation propagation
Money Laundering
Bot generated ad click revenue on fraudulent websites
Timeline
Evolution of reCAPTCHA
The different features in
each version of reCAPTCHA
each version of reCAPTCHA
reCAPTCHA Enterprise
reCAPTCHA v3
reCAPTCHA v2
Proven
- Created based on experience defending millions of sites for over a decade
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Customer-friendly
- Allows you to verify if an interaction is legitimate without any user interaction
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Customizable
- Company-specific risk models
- Risk-based escalation (such as 2FA Support)
- Enhanced risk scoring
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Adaptive
- ML Model Tuning API
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Comprehensive
- Site wide coverage
- Mobile App SDK for Android and iOS
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Enterprise-ready
- Easy API-based integration
- Google Cloud SLAs/SLOs and Terms of Service
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Customer-lead
- Verify users with the "I'm not a robot" checkbox or a click with Invisible reCAPTCHA
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High Precision Risk Scores
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Pricing
Free up to 1 million Assessments / Month*
Free up to 1 million Assessments / Month*
Support
Market-leading Google Cloud terms of service, availability, and support for mission-critical web applications
No support
No support
Resources
*Subject to change
