CaptchaFox Review (2026): German, Hosted at Hetzner, from €15 a Month

What is CaptchaFox?

Who is behind CaptchaFox

CaptchaFox is a bot-protection service from Scoria Labs GmbH, registered in Hallbergmoos near Munich, Germany (Munich Local Court, HRB 283108). The company is represented by Timon Graßl; the imprint lists no founding year and the site names no investors. CaptchaFox calls itself “built and hosted in Europe” and says it analyses 2.5 billion web interactions a year, but it names no customers – only industries and countries.

Instead of image grids, CaptchaFox runs adaptive bot detection, proof of work and threat intelligence in the background before a form is sent. Every request gets a risk score: humans continue without interruption, and suspicious traffic gets a challenge. CaptchaFox says its API is drop-in compatible with both reCAPTCHA and hCaptcha, so you swap the script and keys without rewriting your validation logic.

Where CaptchaFox hosts your data

CaptchaFox says data is processed and stored exclusively in EU data centres, with no transfers to third countries, but it does not name a provider. My DNS check shows the CAPTCHA API (api.captchafox.com) on Hetzner servers in Germany (AS24940). The marketing website captchafox.com is served from a US network, TeraSwitch (AS20326), but that is not where visitor checks are processed. The subprocessor list is part of the data processing agreement, which CaptchaFox offers on every plan.

Checked 25 Oct 2026. Hosting can change – report a change.

CaptchaFox pricing

All prices are in euros without VAT. A yearly toggle shows 17% off; the plan prices below are as displayed.

• Starter – €15 a month: 10,000 requests, 2 domains, 1 user, 7 days of dashboard history, standard support.
• Growth – €39 a month: 30,000 requests, 6 domains, 2 users, 14 days of history and the Invisible Challenge.
• Team – €85 a month: 100,000 requests, 10 domains, 5 users, 30 days of history, Intelligence APIs and enhanced support.
• Enterprise – custom price: up to unlimited requests and domains, priority support, a 99.95% uptime SLA and dedicated infrastructure.

There is no free plan. You get one 7-day trial, a credit card is required at sign-up, and the card is charged automatically if you do not cancel. CaptchaFox says it does not charge for occasional spikes or shut your account down when you hit the limit; it contacts you to upgrade instead. Compared with hCaptcha Pro ($99 a month billed yearly for 100,000 evaluations), Team covers the same volume for €85 a month.

Privacy, accessibility and integrations

CaptchaFox says it uses no cookies and stores no personal data from your visitors. The widget does process the IP address and browser and device signals, which are anonymised as early as possible and never used for advertising or profiling. It claims GDPR and DORA compliance; ISO 27001 is “in progress”, so not yet certified. On accessibility the pages disagree: the homepage shows a WCAG 2.2 AA badge, the compliance page says WCAG 2.1 AA. The FAQ says challenges support keyboard navigation, screen readers and an audio alternative.

The docs list integrations for WordPress, Drupal, Joomla, TYPO3, Keycloak, ReachFive, CS-Cart and React Native, plus SDKs for React, Angular and Vue. The WordPress plugin covers Contact Form 7, Gravity Forms, Elementor Forms, WPForms Lite, Ninja Forms, WooCommerce, Fluent Forms, Forminator and the WordPress login, registration and comment forms. The docs include a migration guide from reCAPTCHA; there is no separate hCaptcha guide.

What users say about CaptchaFox

I could not find a Trustpilot profile for CaptchaFox. Its WordPress plugin has 4/5 from 4 ratings and 70+ active installations (checked 25 October 2026). That is too little public feedback to draw conclusions, and with no named customers you mainly have to judge it on its documentation and a trial.

Pros and cons

Verdict on CaptchaFox

Verdict: CaptchaFox is the best value among the German CAPTCHA services: 10,000 checks for €15 and 100,000 for €85, an API it says is compatible with reCAPTCHA and hCaptcha, and servers in Germany. The trade-offs are no free plan, a short auto-renewing trial and very little public proof – few reviews, no customers named. Best for: growing business sites that need thousands of checks a month from a German provider. Not for: hobby and non-commercial sites that want to pay nothing.

CaptchaFox is ranked #2 in Best European alternatives to hCaptcha and #3 in Best European alternatives to reCAPTCHA and in Best European CAPTCHA services.

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