19 years online · 99.99% uptime · self-funded

The CAPTCHA infrastructure that stays online.

Millions of CAPTCHA challenges. Solved. Daily.

Trusted in production by S&P 500, Fortune and Nasdaq-listed teams since 2007. We absorb the constant flow of CAPTCHA-vendor changes — so your engineers build features instead of firefighting broken pipelines.

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Pay-as-you-go from a $10 minimum · no contract, no sales call required to start.

Operational since 2007 EU data routing on request Priority queues for enterprise volume 100% human-powered solving
In production at enterprise teams in

Data intelligence, RegTech & KYC, ad verification, retail price monitoring, enterprise RPA — including teams at companies listed on

S&P 500 FORTUNE NASDAQ NYSE FTSE 100
3 of 10
largest commercial data brokers route CAPTCHA traffic through us
Top-5
SERP intelligence platforms rely on Anti-Captcha for stable global coverage
Millions
of KYC and compliance checks per quarter run through Anti-Captcha
10+ years
Our longest-tenured enterprise customers have been with us for over a decade

Client names are not disclosed under standard NDAs.

The cost of unsolved CAPTCHAs

CAPTCHAs silently kill the ROI of your automation.

They weren’t designed to stop your business — but they end up breaking legitimate pipelines, creating downtime, hidden costs and engineering noise.

PROBLEM_01

Your pipelines break on a Tuesday morning.

A CAPTCHA vendor ships a silent update overnight. By 9am, your scrapers, robots and crawlers fail at the authentication step. Engineering gets pulled off the roadmap to patch scripts. The data is late. Again.

→ The problem becomes ours, not yours. Our research team ships updated coverage for new CAPTCHA variants typically within days of release — before most teams notice their pipelines have degraded.
PROBLEM_02

In-house solving is a permanent engineering tax.

GPU bills, model retraining, dataset drift, fallback logic, monitoring, on-call rotations. Build-vs-buy works at low volume. At enterprise scale it’s 1–3 full-time engineers on permanent maintenance — recurring forever.

→ We absorb the maintenance load. Your team integrates once and stops thinking about CAPTCHAs. Those engineers go back to your actual roadmap.
PROBLEM_03

Your CAPTCHA vendor can’t pass procurement.

Your CFO needs a real invoice. Legal needs a DPA. Security needs a vendor questionnaire response. Most CAPTCHA services operate out of a Telegram group and can’t produce any of the above.

→ We were built for this. Corporate invoicing, signed DPA, security questionnaire responses, configurable logging, and a real legal entity you can contract with.
How it works

Integrate once. Stop thinking about CAPTCHAs.

You don’t rebuild your automations. You route CAPTCHA challenges through us — from Selenium, Puppeteer, Playwright, an RPA platform, or any HTTP client. The API has been running continuously since 2007.

01

Send us the challenge

Your bot, scraper or worker submits an image, HTML snippet or site key via API, SDK or browser plugin. 13 CAPTCHA families supported today.

02

We solve it — fast, under load

Our engine routes the task to a global human workforce backed by pattern libraries. Multiple solving paths run in parallel; the winning answer ships.

03

You continue your flow

We return the solved text, token or coordinates. Your automation proceeds. No retries, no failure tickets, no babysitting.

04

You see everything

Real-time dashboard shows per-domain solve rates, latency, error rates and spend — exportable for finance and SRE.

solve.py
# pip3 install anticaptchaofficial

from anticaptchaofficial.imagecaptcha import *

solver = imagecaptcha()
solver.set_verbose(1)
solver.set_key("YOUR_API_KEY_HERE")

# Specify softId to earn 10% commission with your app.
# Get your softId here: https://anti-captcha.com/clients/tools/devcenter
solver.set_soft_id(0)

# optional parameters, see documentation for details
# solver.set_phrase(True)            # 2 words
# solver.set_case(True)              # case sensitivity
# solver.set_numeric(1)              # only numbers
# solver.set_minLength(1)            # minimum captcha text length
# solver.set_maxLength(10)           # maximum captcha text length
# solver.set_math(True)              # math operation result
# solver.set_comment("only green")   # comment for workers
# solver.set_pool("en")              # language pool

captcha_text = solver.solve_and_return_solution("captcha.jpeg")
if captcha_text != 0:
    print("captcha text " + captcha_text)
else:
    print("task finished with error " + solver.error_code)
Official SDKs for Python, Node.js, Java, Go, PHP, C#
Native Chrome / Firefox / Safari plugins
Puppeteer, Selenium, Playwright integration tutorials
Unlimited parallel processing threads
API running continuously since 2007 — no breaking changes
10% commission via softId for SaaS apps
For developers

Everything else lives at dev.anticaptcha.com

Full API reference, SDK changelogs, integration recipes for Puppeteer / Selenium / Playwright, browser plugin docs, and example projects.

Supported challenges

Every CAPTCHA your stack will hit. Solved.

Thirteen CAPTCHA families and counting. New variants are reverse-engineered and supported within days — not quarters. See pricing for current rates.

Image CAPTCHALegacy text & image challenges
reCAPTCHA v2Checkbox & tile-grid challenges
reCAPTCHA v3Invisible, score-based — common in KYC flows
reCAPTCHA EnterpriseGoogle’s premium-tier risk scoring
Cloudflare TurnstileBehavioral challenge — used widely in 2024+
GeeTest v3 / v4Slider & click puzzles — common in APAC
Arkose Labs / FunCaptcha3D puzzle challenges — fintech & gaming
Amazon WAFCAPTCHA layer on AWS-protected endpoints
Friendly CaptchaEU-origin proof-of-work challenge
ProsopoPrivacy-focused, no tracking
AltchaOpen-source proof-of-work alternative
Object CoordinatesPoint-in-image challenges
Custom (any flow)Bespoke CAPTCHAs solved via custom tasks
Real humans behind the API

100% human-powered. By design.

Every CAPTCHA you send us is solved by a real person somewhere in the world — not by a model fighting another model.

Our workforce is global, with a significant share of workers in regions where stable digital employment is genuinely hard to find. For many of them, this work is a meaningful alternative to physically demanding jobs, agricultural labour, or unemployment — and a way to support their families and continue studying.

When your team buys CAPTCHA solving from Anti-Captcha, you’re also choosing to direct that spend toward real human income — not GPU bills.

Read worker stories on kolostories.com

ESG-aligned spend

Workforce ethics is a real procurement filter for EU enterprise buyers. Anti-Captcha’s model is auditable, human-first, and explicitly documented.

Lower compute footprint

No GPU farms running 24/7. Our solving stack is human-powered — compute footprint per million solves is a small fraction of ML-only services.

Global, around-the-clock pool

Workers spread across multiple time zones — the workforce is awake somewhere at all times. No regional outages, no off-hours degradation.

Where it’s deployed

Built for teams that live on web data & automation.

Web data & scraping

Maintain stable crawlers across thousands of domains without babysitting CAPTCHA drift.

SEO / SERP intelligence

Keep keyword, ranking and competitive feeds flowing — even when search engines turn aggressive.

Travel & retail intelligence

Continuously monitor prices, availability and reviews across OTAs, airlines and marketplaces.

RPA & enterprise automation

Automate secure portals and back-office systems end-to-end without falling back to humans.

RegTech, KYC / AML, LegalTech

Access government registries and court databases reliably, with full audit trails per request.

Ad-tech & affiliate analytics

Validate impressions, clicks and landing pages at global scale — without losing them to CAPTCHA walls.

Pricing

Pay only for what you solve. Discounts as you scale.

Volume-based auto-discounts at the top of the table. Custom arrangements available for very high-throughput environments — including dedicated capacity and priority routing.

Challenge Per 1,000
Image CAPTCHA$0.50 – $0.70
reCAPTCHA v2$0.95 – $2.00
reCAPTCHA v3 score-based$1.00 – $2.00
reCAPTCHA Enterprise$5.00
Cloudflare Turnstile$2.00
GeeTest$1.80
Arkose Labs$3.00
Challenge Per 1,000
Amazon WAF$2.00
Friendly Captcha$2.00
Prosopo$2.00
Altcha$2.00
Object Coordinates$2.00
Custom Tasks any flow$2.00
About these prices

The ranges above reflect current market rates — not fixed tariffs. Actual cost per solve fluctuates based on real-time worker supply and demand, challenge complexity, and current network load. Pricing operates as a live auction: clients set their own bid, similar to programmatic advertising. During unusual demand spikes, equilibrium prices may briefly move outside the listed ranges in either direction.

¹ Volume-based discounts applied automatically to qualifying daily volumes.
² reCAPTCHA v3 pricing varies with required quality score.
³ You are only billed for successful solves — failed tasks return error codes at no charge.

Estimate your real-world cost in 5 minutes.

Top up an account with $10 and test against your real traffic. No contract, no sales call required.

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Real outcomes

What the pricing actually translates to.

Four real-world engagements where teams replaced in-house CAPTCHA work or commodity providers with Anti-Captcha. Different verticals, same shape: pipeline failures down, engineering time recovered.

Case · Web data platform

From 12% daily job failures to under 1%.

Scale5,000+ source domains, continuous price & product collection at hourly cadence.
BeforeCAPTCHA-vendor updates broke crawlers daily. Engineers spent ~30% of their week firefighting failed jobs.
AfterFailure rate dropped below 1% within the first two weeks. The team shipped two new datasets that quarter instead.
Case · SEO / SERP intelligence

Predictable SERP coverage across four regions.

ScaleLong-tail keyword tracking across US, EU, UK, JP markets.
BeforeAggressive WAF + CAPTCHA escalation in Tier-1 markets broke client reporting cadence weekly.
AfterStable coverage, predictable per-keyword cost, client delivery SLAs restored to 99%+.
Case · Enterprise RPA

Hundreds of monthly hours returned to humans.

Scale30+ financial portals, daily statement pulls across multiple subsidiaries.
BeforeRobots routinely escalated to human operators whenever a CAPTCHA appeared. The equivalent of ~3 full-time staff absorbing the buffered work.
AfterEnd-to-end completion. Human escalation effectively eliminated for the flow.
Case · RegTech / KYC

Reliable registry access with a full audit trail.

ScaleDozens of government & court registries, KYC checks running at peak hours.
BeforeCAPTCHA variance broke pipelines unpredictably. Compliance needed traceable exception logs that didn’t exist.
AfterHigher KYC throughput, per-registry statistics, manual-exception rate dropped roughly 80%.
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Why teams move off in-house & commodity solvers.

Built it yourself? Using a low-cost provider? Here’s where the real cost shows up — usually around your first seven-figure traffic month.

Anti-Captcha Enterprise In-house solver Commodity provider
Time to production Hours — drop-in SDK 3–9 months — model training, ops setup Days — if their schema matches yours
New CAPTCHA variants Days — covered by vendor Re-train, re-deploy, re-validate Weeks to months
Solve rate at scale Optimized on real traffic Degrades on edge cases Variable, unmeasured
Concurrency Effectively unlimited Bound by your GPU fleet Hard caps on shared tier
Enterprise contract & DPA Available N/A Rarely available
Priority queues / dedicated routing Yes Your problem No
Human-in-the-loop fallback Always-on, global workforce You hire it Patchy quality
Operational since 2007 — 19 years in production Day one of your project Often < 5 years
API backwards compatibility Running since 2007 You maintain it Breaking changes possible

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Security & vendor stability

What your procurement team needs from a CAPTCHA vendor.

Data handling, security posture and vendor-continuity stance — in one place. Most CAPTCHA providers can't answer half of these questions. We were built to answer all of them.

Data & security

Encryption in transit & at rest

Industry-standard TLS for all traffic; encrypted storage for task metadata.

EU data routing

Optional regional pinning for GDPR-sensitive workloads. EU-only routing available on request.

Configurable logging

No-logging modes for sensitive flows. Audit-ready exports on request.

DPA, MSA & questionnaires

Data Processing Agreement available. Custom Master Service Agreements negotiable for high-volume accounts. We respond to standard vendor security questionnaires.

Per-domain analytics

Per-source success rates, solve times and error rates — visible in dashboard, exportable.

Acceptable-use policy

Lawful automation only. Active rejection of abusive use cases — documented and enforced.

Priority queues

Enterprise accounts get dedicated queue priority — consistent latency even at network peak.

Vendor stability & continuity
19 years

Continuously operational

Anti-Captcha started before reCAPTCHA v2 even existed. We’ve adapted through every major CAPTCHA paradigm shift — image, audio, behavioral, invisible, score-based, proof-of-work.

Self-funded

Profitable, no investors

We’re not VC-backed. No growth-at-all-costs mandate, no runway concerns, no pressure to pivot. Built to be paid for what it does — same model, year after year.

Since 2007

API backwards compatibility

Our API has been running continuously since 2007. Integrations written years ago still work today, untouched. No breaking changes, no deprecations — your code keeps working.

99.99%

Public uptime statement

Publicly reported uptime sustained over the entire 19-year operational history. Network redundancy and queue-based architecture mean no single point of failure.

Voices from production

What enterprise teams actually report.

Quotes anonymized at customer request. Public consumer reviews available at Trustpilot →

"
CAPTCHA changes used to mean our team dropped everything to patch crawlers. With Anti-Captcha, that just stopped happening — we’d find out about a CAPTCHA change from their blog, not from a broken pipeline. And the parallel processing meant we could finally scale into new regions without provisioning anything.
CTO
web_data_platform
"
We were one of those companies where the standard integration didn’t quite fit our flow — we had some weird in-house tooling. Their team walked us through a custom implementation in about a week. That was probably the moment we stopped treating CAPTCHAs as a recurring engineering problem.
VP Engineering
risk_and_verification
"
Honestly, the thing that mattered most was that we could just throw more volume at it. We doubled keyword coverage twice in one year without ever calling our vendor to ask about capacity. That’s the bar for us — if I have to file a ticket to scale, it’s the wrong vendor.
Director
seo_serp_intelligence
"
Our RPA bots used to escalate to humans every time a CAPTCHA appeared. We measured it — about 280 hours per month of manual review work. After we hooked up Anti-Captcha, that number is roughly zero. The team that used to handle those escalations now works on actual exceptions.
Engineering Manager
enterprise_rpa
"
Onboarding is one of those flows where every failed CAPTCHA is a lost customer. We were watching our funnel leak about 4% from CAPTCHA failures alone. After switching, the leak basically closed. That’s real money — way more than what we pay for the service.
Head of Platform Reliability
digital_identity_onboarding
"
What I like is that they’ve been around long enough that I don’t worry about them going under. We’ve had vendors disappear on us before. Anti-Captcha has been billing us the same way for years and the API hasn’t changed. For compliance work, that boring consistency is exactly what we need.
Head of RegTech Operations
continuous_monitoring
FAQ

What enterprise buyers ask first.

Priority queues, reserved capacity options, custom invoicing arrangements, EU data routing, signed DPA, direct engineering contact, and tailored onboarding assistance for high-volume integrations.
Our research team reverse-engineers new variants within days of release, validated against real-world traffic. Enterprise clients can request priority coverage for specific variants encountered in their pipelines.
Median response is around 5 seconds across CAPTCHA categories. Token-based challenges (reCAPTCHA v3, Cloudflare Turnstile) generally return faster than visual ones. Per-domain latency stats are available in the dashboard.
Yes. A standard Data Processing Agreement aligned with GDPR Article 28 is available. For high-volume accounts we can negotiate a custom Master Service Agreement (MSA) covering commercial terms, SLAs and liability. We respond to standard vendor security questionnaires. EU-only data routing is available for enterprise accounts; configurable logging modes for sensitive workloads.
Pay-as-you-go at the per-1,000 rates listed above, with automatic discounts on qualifying daily volumes. For very high-throughput environments we discuss custom pricing arrangements directly.
No. We’re pay-as-you-go from a $10 minimum balance — you can sign up, top up, and integrate today without talking to anyone. For high-volume integrations, security questionnaires, or invoicing arrangements, our team is one click away.
You are not charged for failures, only successful solves. Each task carries a structured error code so your automation can branch on it. Per-CAPTCHA-type and per-source solve-rate stats are available in the dashboard.
Yes. Our API has been running continuously since 2007. We don’t ship breaking changes — integrations written years ago continue to work today, which matters for enterprise teams that don’t want to chase vendor changes.
CAPTCHA solving is legal in virtually all jurisdictions for lawful automation: regulatory compliance, accessibility, RPA, monitoring, public-data scraping, internal QA. Our acceptable-use policy explicitly rejects abusive use cases. We’re happy to walk your legal team through specifics.

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