Private Captcha
by Private Captcha · Invisible, GDPR-compliant CAPTCHA hosted in the EU
BenchRank score
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Overview
Private Captcha protects web forms and APIs from bots. A drop-in widget solves an invisible cryptographic task in the background rather than showing a puzzle, with ready-made integrations for common platforms and frameworks and a callback-based JavaScript snippet. It runs on EU-based infrastructure without cookies, tracking or fingerprinting, and can also be self-hosted.
- Best for
- EU organisations needing GDPR-compliant bot protection on forms and APIs without cookies or puzzles
- Pricing
- Free trial with no credit card, then from €9/month excluding VAT for 10,000 requests; prices for the other volume steps, up to 1,000,000 requests/month, are not shown in the captured text.
- Runs on
- WebSelf-hosted
Strengths and trade-offs
Strengths
- No cookies, tracking or fingerprinting; DPA available
- Servers, storage, CDN and email all EU-based
- Same feature set in every tier, with published prices
- Can be self-hosted on your own infrastructure
Trade-offs
- Some features are add-ons charged on top of the tier price
- Endpoints are EU-only, so traffic from elsewhere travels further
- Capped at 10 domains and 2 organisations
- Support is a reply within 24 business hours, not live
How Private Captcha markets itself
A structured read of the promise, proof and page design on Private Captcha’s captured homepage.
Homepage capture
“Block Bots, Not People”
- Angle: Outcome / benefit-led
- Hero: Illustration
Pricing
Published plans and prices from Private Captcha’s own pricing page.
How this score is made up
Each dimension is scored out of 100 and combined into the headline score using fixed weights.
MCP support
Whether an agent can drive the product through the Model Context Protocol, and how much setup that takes.
API quality
Public API surface: machine-readable spec, official SDKs, documented auth, errors, rate limits and versioning.
Documentation
Publicly reachable docs — coverage, freshness, code samples and machine readability.
Agent friendliness
How readable the site is to an automated client: llms.txt, structured data, server-rendered content, crawler access.
Changelog
A public, dated record of what shipped and when — the clearest signal that a product is still alive.
Marketing site structure
Whether the site answers a buyer's questions: clear positioning, the pages that matter, and accessibility.
Page speed
How fast the site loads for real visitors: Chrome UX Report 75th-percentile LCP, INP and CLS, with a Lighthouse mobile run standing in where a site has too little traffic for field data.
Operational trust
Status page and incident history, security disclosure, compliance and data-processing documentation.
Measured, but not part of the score
Useful to know, but not a mark for or against the product — so these do not affect the ranking.
Openness
Source availability, self-hosting, data export and open standards. Scored and shown, but not part of the composite — paid SaaS is not worse for being paid SaaS.
Maintenance
Release cadence and repository activity. Scored and shown, but not part of the composite — it is only measurable for open repositories.
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