{"meta":{"name":"FindSoftware","page":"https://findsoftware.frbit.cloud/friendly-captcha/","markdown":"https://findsoftware.frbit.cloud/friendly-captcha.md","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/","attribution":"FindSoftware, CC BY 4.0","note":"Attributes are recorded, never scored. An absent field means unknown, never zero and never bad."},"record":{"id":"friendly-captcha","name":"Friendly Captcha","urls":{"home":"https://friendlycaptcha.com/","docs":"https://developer.friendlycaptcha.com/","pricing":"https://friendlycaptcha.com/#pricing"},"category":["forms"],"description":"Hosted, invisible CAPTCHA service that protects websites and apps from bots with a proof-of-work puzzle that runs in the visitor's browser.","maintainer":"Friendly Captcha GmbH","maintainerType":"company","hqCountry":"DE","contentStore":null,"databases":null,"adminUi":null,"headlessApi":null,"templating":null,"i18n":null,"renderingModes":null,"licenseModel":"saas","checkedAt":"2026-11-03T00:00:00.000Z","addedAt":"2026-11-03T00:00:00.000Z","sources":[{"field":"urls","url":"https://friendlycaptcha.com/","checkedAt":"2026-11-03T00:00:00.000Z"},{"field":"urls","url":"https://developer.friendlycaptcha.com/","checkedAt":"2026-11-03T00:00:00.000Z"},{"field":"maintainer","url":"https://friendlycaptcha.com/legal/terms/","checkedAt":"2026-11-03T00:00:00.000Z"},{"field":"hqCountry","url":"https://friendlycaptcha.com/legal/terms/","checkedAt":"2026-11-03T00:00:00.000Z"},{"field":"category","url":"https://friendlycaptcha.com/","checkedAt":"2026-11-03T00:00:00.000Z"},{"field":"urls","url":"https://friendlycaptcha.com/","checkedAt":"2026-11-03T00:00:00.000Z"}],"status":"hosted-service","ai":"authored"},"prose":"Friendly Captcha is a hosted CAPTCHA service for websites and apps. A site adds the Friendly Captcha widget to a form, and the widget solves a proof-of-work puzzle for each visitor's device in the background while the visitor fills in the form, so the visitor is not shown a challenge to complete. The service is run by Friendly Captcha GmbH from Germany and states that it uses no cookies and stores no personal data from users.\n\n## Worth knowing\n\nThe Starter plan limits requests per month, and paid plans raise those limits and the number of protected domains. A free CAPTCHA is offered for non-commercial websites with low traffic. The Enterprise plan adds a self-hosted endpoint option. The open source integrations for React, Vue and Angular are published separately from the hosted service."}