# hCaptcha 6 Hacker News commenters recommended hCaptcha and 10 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 4 of 13 months. **Verdict:** People recommend it for reliably blocking bots and form spam. The most common caveat is that its challenges are hard to solve and inaccessible to users with disabilities. ## Why people recommend it - Reliable bot and spam blocking (2 comments): "hCaptcha might have a better blocking rate at the moment, but it's also $0.99/1K evals" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49507116)) "adding hCaptcha is pretty reliable in getting rid of them" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47749318)) ## What people warn about - Inaccessible to users with disabilities (4 comments): "HCaptcha is inaccessible and actively discriminatory against individuals with disabilities and refuses to change" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48070235)) "it's also $0.99/1K evals, and that "animated challenge" will be impossible to solve for visually-impaired users" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49511919)) "straight-up requires you to have an "accessibility cookie", which requires verifying your email address" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48068024)) - Challenges are hard and tiring (5 comments): "I remember running into a hCaptcha task that asked me to distinguish between circuit boards and top-down cityscapes" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49976298)) "keeps getting extremely difficult or brain-draining hCaptchas thrown at me with no real solutions" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50309068)) "they are about the most difficult to solve captchas I've ever done" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48847739)) ## Alternatives hackers recommend - [Cloudflare Turnstile](https://hackerapproved.com/p/cloudflare-turnstile.md): 33 recommend - [Google Cloud fraud defense](https://hackerapproved.com/p/google-cloud-fraud-defense.md): 6 recommend - [Altcha](https://hackerapproved.com/p/altcha.md): 5 recommend ## Where to get it - [Visit the official site](https://www.hcaptcha.com/) ## Cite as Hacker Approved, "hCaptcha", https://hackerapproved.com/p/hcaptcha/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).