reCAPTCHA

What is reCAPTCHA?

reCAPTCHA protects your website from fraud and abuse without creating friction.

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

Proven

reCAPTCHA has been at the forefront of bot mitigation for over a decade and actively protects data for our network of five million sites.

Frictionless

A seamless 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

Enterprise reCAPTCHA Enterprise

2020

v3 reCAPTCHA v3

2018

v2 reCAPTCHA v2

2014

reCAPTCHA Enterprise

reCAPTCHA Enterprise provides a frictionless user experience where fraud protection is easily extended across websites rather than being limited to select pages. It can be integrated into your mobile application using an API-based service.