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VERDICT

Should I use Anti-Captcha?

Captcha solving API since 2007 — reCAPTCHA, Turnstile, Arkose, GeeTest and more - anti-captcha.com

Depends. Buy if you run scraping or automation at real volume and have a developer to wire the API; at $0.50–$5 per 1,000 it's cheap at scale. Skip it if you solve the occasional captcha manually, can't accept human workers seeing your pages, or your target sites' terms forbid automation.

Confidence

Medium. Based on 8 public sources; product facts come almost entirely from vendor pages with little independent review data, so confidence is medium.

Ratings

  • Value for money
  • Ease of use
  • Feature depth
  • Support qualityNo support evidence in sources.
  • Security postureNo public security findings in sources.

Pricing

$0.50–$0.70 / 1,000

Image captchas

ModelNot disclosed
Monthly feesNot disclosed
HardwareNot disclosed
reCAPTCHA v2 / v3$0.95–$2 / 1,000
reCAPTCHA Enterprise$5 / 1,000
Turnstile, GeeTest, Arkose, Amazon WAF, others$1.80–$3 / 1,000

Best for

  • High-volume web scraping teams
  • Automation and QA developers
  • Accessibility users (free plugin)
  • Data-labeling workflows

Not for

  • Casual users hitting one captcha a week — solve it yourself
  • Non-developers wanting a turnkey GUI tool — it's an API
  • Anyone sending sensitive page data — 100% human-solved
  • Teams whose target sites' terms prohibit automated access

Gotchas - check before you buy

high

100% human solving — never send pages containing personal or confidential data.

medium

Prices auto-discount by daily spend volume; costs shift month to month.

medium

Acceptable Usage Policy governs use; violating it risks account suspension.

low

Listed free capacity is 1,000 solves per minute — plan bursts around it.

Pros and cons

Pros

  • Cheapest listed tier: $0.50 per 1,000 image captchas
  • Solves reCAPTCHA v2/v3/Enterprise, Arkose, GeeTest, Turnstile, Amazon WAF, custom tasks
  • Claims 99.99% uptime since 2007
  • Free browser plugins for Chrome, Firefox and Safari
  • ~5 second solves, 1,000 solves/minute capacity, unlimited parallel API threads

Cons

  • All solves done by human workers; page data leaves your systems
  • Uptime, speed and price claims are self-reported with thin independent evidence
  • reCAPTCHA v3 pricing varies by quality score, complicating cost forecasts
  • Requires API integration or plugin setup — no business-user interface

Sources & method

Analyzed 9/22/2026 - 5 sources - No known vulnerabilities found in the sources reviewed.

official x2review x1security x1news x1

Key stats

  • Value for money: 5/5

    Rating

  • $0.50–$0.70 / 1,000

    Starting price

  • 5

    Sources

  • Analyzed

  • Value for money: 5/5. From $0.50/1,000 with automatic volume discounts.
  • Ease of use: 4/5. Free browser plugins and simple API, but developer-oriented.
  • Feature depth: 5/5. Every major captcha type plus custom tasks supported.
  • Support quality. No support evidence in sources.
  • Security posture. No public security findings in sources.
  • $0.50 Starting price per 1,000 image captchas
  • 99.99% Uptime claim since 2007, self-reported
  • 2007 Operating since ~18 years in market
  • ~5s Avg solve speed across listed captcha types

Pricing

Image captchas

$0.50–$0.70 / 1,000

  • Cheapest tier
  • ~5s solve
  • Automatic volume discounts

reCAPTCHA v2 / v3

$0.95–$2 / 1,000

  • V3 cost varies by quality score
  • ~5s solve

reCAPTCHA Enterprise

$5 / 1,000

  • Hardest challenge tier

Turnstile, GeeTest, Arkose, Amazon WAF, others

$1.80–$3 / 1,000

  • Pay-as-you-go or subscription

Security

No known vulnerabilities found in the sources reviewed.

What users say

No independent user reviews or quotes surfaced in the sources; evidence is vendor marketing plus aggregator mirrors.

Full analysis

Based on 8 public sources; product facts come almost entirely from vendor pages with little independent review data, so confidence is medium.

Cheap, broad captcha-solving API for dev teams at volume; overkill and risky for casual users or ToS-restricted targets.

Methodology

Based on 8 public sources; product facts come almost entirely from vendor pages with little independent review data, so confidence is medium.

Sources

  1. Anti-Captcha homepage and pricinganti-captcha.com
    official
  2. Anti-Captcha security pageanti-captcha.com
    official
  3. Gridinsoft URL reputation checkgridinsoft.com
    security
  4. Anti-Captcha alternative comparison (2026)hproxy.com
    review
  5. Antcpt.com traffic and alternativesxranks.com
    news

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