CaptchaFox
CAPTCHA Germany
German CAPTCHA platform with reCAPTCHA-compatible verification API. Alternative to reCAPTCHA.
Details
CaptchaFox is a German bot-protection platform built by Scoria Labs GmbH. It combines adaptive bot detection with proxy and VPN detection, geoblocking, IP blocking and custom rules, and publishes a migration guide for teams moving off reCAPTCHA. Verification follows the familiar pattern of a client widget plus a server-side token check.
Plans run from EUR 15 per month for two domains and 10,000 requests to EUR 85 per month for ten domains and 100,000 requests, with an enterprise tier above that. EU hosting and GDPR conformance apply on every tier. The fully invisible challenge, the intelligence APIs and an uptime SLA sit on the higher plans; there is a free trial but no permanent free tier.
About Scoria Labs GmbH
Scoria Labs GmbH is registered at Fokkerstr. 2, 85399 Hallbergmoos outside Munich, at the Munich local court under HRB 283108, VAT ID DE361369461, represented by Timon Graßl. CaptchaFox is its registered trademark. German GmbH accounts are not obtainable with public tooling, so no revenue or headcount figure for it is filed anywhere.
CaptchaFox is adaptive bot protection rather than a puzzle. It scores each request against what the vendor describes as billions of risk signals and escalates to a challenge only when it needs to; the fully invisible mode is available from the Growth plan upward, while the entry plan gets the ordinary challenge. The platform also sells proxy and VPN detection, geolocation and geoblocking, IP blocking, custom rules, an event explorer and risk-intelligence APIs, with more than 35 integrations covering WordPress, React and Angular.
On data handling it is more precise than most. Scoria Labs acts as a processor under Article 28 GDPR with the website operator remaining the controller, processing happens exclusively in EU data centres with no third-country transfers, and there are no cookies and no local device storage — so the Schrems II transfer questions do not arise. EU hosting is included on every plan rather than reserved for the expensive ones. Pricing is EUR 15 a month for 10,000 requests, EUR 39 for 30,000, EUR 85 for 100,000 and custom above that, with 17% off annually. There is a free trial but no free tier, and reCAPTCHA is free at the two lower volumes.
