captcha.eu
CAPTCHA Austria
Austrian CAPTCHA service built as a GDPR-first reCAPTCHA replacement. Alternative to reCAPTCHA.
Details
captcha.eu is an Austrian bot-protection service offering two verification modes: an invisible check that validates genuine visitors in the background, and a lightweight one-click widget where a visible confirmation is wanted. Neither mode asks the visitor to label images or transcribe characters, and the service sets no cookies and collects no user data.
Ready-made plugins cover WordPress, Joomla, TYPO3, NEOS, Craft CMS, Keycloak and Adobe Commerce/Magento 2, alongside a standard API for everything else. Plans run from EUR 8.90 per month for one site and 1,000 requests to EUR 179.90 per month for ten sites and 100,000 requests, with a custom tier above. All processing is hosted in Austria.
About CAPTCHA GmbH
The company behind captcha.eu is Captcha GmbH at Muthgasse 2, 1190 Vienna, entered in the Austrian Firmenbuch at the Vienna commercial court under FN 602312d, VAT ATU79352727, with Helmut Januschka and Manuel Rostorfer as managing directors. The imprint names no holding company and no corporate shareholder above them. Austrian GmbH financials are not obtainable with free tooling, so there is no filed revenue or headcount to report.
The service offers two modes: an invisible check that validates genuine visitors in the background, and a lightweight one-click widget for cases where a visible confirmation is wanted. Neither presents an image or puzzle challenge. It sets no cookies and stores no personal data on end users, and the vendor states that requests are processed by default at the point of presence closest to the visitor. Its strongest verifiable credential is accessibility: the application holds the Web Accessibility Certificate Austria at silver level, awarded by TÜV Austria against WCAG 2.2 Level AA.
Every plan states hosting in Austria, and the integrations are plugin-led — WordPress, TYPO3, Keycloak and others. Starter is EUR 8.90 a month for one website and 1,000 requests, Growth EUR 35.90 for five websites and 10,000 requests, and Advanced EUR 1,942.92 a year for ten websites and 100,000 requests, with 10% off for paying annually. There is a trial but no free tier, and that is the comparison that decides a switch: Google’s reCAPTCHA is free at the volumes the first two plans cover.
