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1 category · Named, not ranked

reCAPTCHA

11Judge labels

0First choices

9Negative labels

6 / 14Models named it

1Category

October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.8, every buyer segment counted.

Standing

5 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. reCAPTCHA was named 5 times in Bot management, where Cloudflare Bot Management led with 56%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small business75 of 84

under the label threshold

Mid-market83 of 83

under the label threshold

Enterprise75 of 75

under the label threshold

In bot management · each standing computed within its segment · bars are 0 to 100 · the accent bar is the product's own best reading

Standing by category

Every category where a model named reCAPTCHA for a mid-market B2B company. Share is first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts; rank is within every product named in that category.

Category	Function	Share	Rank	Negative rate	Labels	Quadrant	Since September 2026
Bot management	Network and edge	0%	83 of 83	100%	5	under 10 labels · led by Cloudflare Bot Management at 56%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for reCAPTCHA yet. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment and per category, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated reCAPTCHA across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.

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Model	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	2	2
Perplexity Sonar	0	0
Grok 4.1 Fast	1	1
Mistral Small	0	0
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	0
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0
Kimi K2	1	1
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	0
MiniMax M2.5	0	0
GPT-6 Luna	0	0
Muse Glimmer 30B	1	1

By framing

Which of the six questions produced the naming. By model says how often; this says asked what. The first-choice count on the right carries the marks of the models that produced it.

FramingLabels by classFirst choices

Direct0 labelsNone

Paraphrase4 labelsNone

Comparative0 labelsNone

Budget-constrained2 labelsNone

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative5 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative11 labels in all, every segment counted; 0 of the 0 first choices count toward share, since the comparative and negative framings do not. The bar is one segment per label class, to scale within the framing.

What the models said for it

Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.

No positive label carried a quote.

And against it

Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.

“Traditional, Interactive CAPTCHAs (like reCAPTCHA v2 / v3) ... AI Can Beat Them Easily ... Privacy and Compliance Risks” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Bot management · negative prompt · hard negative

“providing integration but occasionally raising privacy concerns due to data collection practices” Muse Glimmer 30B · Bot management · negative prompt · soft negative

“Free CAPTCHAs (e.g., reCAPTCHA) help but miss advanced bots and add friction/costs at scale.” Grok 4.1 Fast · Bot management · budget prompt · soft negative

“unlike Google's reCAPTCHA, which can quickly become expensive on high-traffic sites” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Bot management · budget prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as reCAPTCHA, over the 11 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and reCAPTCHA was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Cloudflare Bot Management11 of 115Not among the top eight

DataDome8 of 111Not among the top eight

Akamai Bot Manager6 of 110Not among the top eight

hCaptcha6 of 110Not among the top eight

HUMAN Security3 of 110Not among the top eight

Imperva Advanced Bot Protection3 of 110Not among the top eight

Indusface AppTrana3 of 110Not among the top eight

AWS WAF + Bot Control2 of 111Not among the top eight

Cloudflare Turnstile2 of 111Not among the top eight

CrowdSec2 of 110Not among the top eight

A head-to-head page exists where both products are among a category's top eight. The other rows are the same fact without a page behind them, so they link to the product instead.

What carried it into the answer

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named reCAPTCHA. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 11 of the 11 answers that named reCAPTCHA and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

radware.com8

cequence.ai7

indusface.com7

developers.cloudflare.com6

cloudflare.com5

akamai.com4

cside.com4

datadome.co4

geetest.com4

securityboulevard.com4

No domain is on file for reCAPTCHA, so its own site is not marked.

Pages cited

indusface.com/blog/top-bot-management-software7

cside.com/blog/best-bot-detection-software4

geetest.com/en/article/best-bot-management-software4

brixio.io/blog/bot-management-solutions-how-to-choose3

engagelab.com/blog/bot-detection-tools3

securityboulevard.com/2024/02/13-top-bot-management-software-in-the-market-for-20243

spendbase.co/blog/cloud-management-tools/bot-management-solutions-for-enterprise3

akamai.com/blog/security/how-bot-management-can-help2

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

Where reCAPTCHA stands in Google search beside where it stands in the models' answers.

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In search

Google, US estimates

Searches for its name, Google: 60,500 a month (“recaptcha”)
AI search demand for its name, est.: 1,688 a month
Its own site: No site of its own on file, so no site figures

In answers

This edition

Share of first choices

rank 83 of 83 in bot management

Segment leader

56%

Cloudflare Bot Management

First choices: 0 across its categories
Named in: 11 answers
Its own site cited: No site on file to match

Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read October 5, 2026; AI search demand is its modeled, directional estimate, not a count of queries to any assistant. The answers are this edition's. Two measurements side by side: neither is read as the cause of the other.

Names read as reCAPTCHA

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as reCAPTCHA; a claim can dispute any of them.

reCAPTCHA Enterprise 1reCAPTCHA v2 / v3 1

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A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for reCAPTCHA by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:

where reCAPTCHA is named, by buyer and by framing, and which cells hold its first choices;
the claims the models make when they name it, ranked, with the strongest and the weakest quoted;
its vocabulary against the segment leader's, and the pages the models cited;
who was chosen in the answers that did not name reCAPTCHA, and every reason the record gives;
a battlecard for each top rival: the head-to-head split, why they win, and the reservation quoted against them;
one page of published figures cleared to show a buyer.