Best captcha plugins for WordPress
The most popular captcha plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. SiteGuard WP Plugin leads with 600K+ active installs, ahead of CF7 Apps (300K+) and Really Simple CAPTCHA (300K+). All 291 plugins tagged “captcha” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 10 captcha plugins
- 1.
SiteGuard WP PluginThe most installed captcha plugin, with 600K+ active installs. Rated 4.3 from 15 reviews, updated 1 week ago.
- 2.
CF7 Apps300K+ active installs. Rated 3.8 from 135 reviews, updated 1 week ago.
- 3.
Really Simple CAPTCHA300K+ active installs. Rated 4.2 from 131 reviews, updated 2 months ago.
- 4.
Advanced Google reCAPTCHA200K+ active installs. Rated 4.8 from 431 reviews, updated 1 month ago.
- 5.
Simple CAPTCHA with Cloudflare Turnstile200K+ active installs. Rated 4.7 from 262 reviews, updated 1 week ago.
- 6.
reCaptcha by BestWebSoft100K+ active installs. Rated 3.9 from 391 reviews, updated 1 week ago.
- 7.
Login Lockdown & Protection100K+ active installs. Rated 4.3 from 61 reviews, updated 1 month ago.
- 8.
CAPTCHA 4WP100K+ active installs. Rated 3.2 from 269 reviews, updated 2 months ago.
- 9.
Captcha Code100K+ active installs. Rated 3.9 from 35 reviews, updated 1 month ago.
- 10.
Gravity Forms Zero Spam100K+ active installs. Rated 4.3 from 24 reviews, updated 2 months ago.
All 291 plugins tagged “captcha”

SiteGuard WP Plugin
Up in the last 7 days:1#108by jp-secure12 days ago
Adds WordPress login and admin protections, including CAPTCHA, login lock, login alerts, renamed login URLs, and SiteGuard WAF tuning support.
- Installs
- 600K+
- Rating
- 4.3(15)
- Downloads
- 5.9K/day

CF7 Apps
#156by Saad Iqbal10 days ago
Add hCaptcha, Honeypot, Redirection, and AI-powered form generation to Contact Form 7.
- Installs
- 300K+
- Rating
- 3.8(135)
- Downloads
- 4.8K/day

Really Simple CAPTCHA
#188by Rock Lobster Inc.2 months ago
Really Simple CAPTCHA is a CAPTCHA module intended to be called from other plugins. It is originally created for my Contact Form 7 plugin.
- Installs
- 300K+
- Rating
- 4.2(131)
- Downloads
- 1K/day

Advanced Google reCAPTCHA
#212by WebFactory1 month ago
Captcha protection against spam comments & brute force login attacks using Google reCAPTCHA.
- Installs
- 200K+
- Rating
- 4.8(431)
- Downloads
- 1.9K/day

Simple CAPTCHA with Cloudflare Turnstile
Up in the last 7 days:3#234by Elliot Sowersby / RelyWP8 days ago
Add Cloudflare Turnstile to WordPress, WooCommerce, Contact Forms & more. The user-friendly, privacy-preserving reCAPTCHA alternative. 100% free!
- Installs
- 200K+
- Rating
- 4.7(262)
- Downloads
- 10K/day

reCaptcha by BestWebSoft
#341by bestwebsoft8 days ago
Protect WordPress website forms from spam entries with Google reCAPTCHA.
- Installs
- 100K+
- Rating
- 3.9(391)
- Downloads
- 1.4K/day

Login Lockdown & Protection
Up in the last 7 days:2#370by WebFactory1 month ago
Protect, lockdown & secure login form by limiting login attempts from the same IP & banning IPs.
- Installs
- 100K+
- Rating
- 4.3(61)
- Downloads
- 785/day

CAPTCHA 4WP
Up in the last 7 days:1#436by WPKube2 months ago
Use CAPTCHA to stop spam and allow customers & users to interact with your website easily. Block fake accounts and orders. Avoid false positives.
- Installs
- 100K+
- Rating
- 3.2(269)
- Downloads
- 431/day

Captcha Code
#445by WebFactory1 month ago
GDPR compatible captcha anti-spam protection for login form, comments form, registration form & lost password form. Eliminate spam with captcha.
- Installs
- 100K+
- Rating
- 3.9(35)
- Downloads
- 430/day

Gravity Forms Zero Spam
#453by GravityKit2 months ago
Block form spam in Gravity Forms with an invisible token check, email rejection rules, and optional AI review. No CAPTCHAs for your visitors.
- Installs
- 100K+
- Rating
- 4.3(24)
- Downloads
- 533/day

LukasApps CAPTCHA tools for Contact Form 7
Down in the last 7 days:1#456by LukasApps1 month ago
Protect Contact Form 7 forms from spam with Google reCAPTCHA v2, reCAPTCHA v3, hCaptcha or Cloudflare Turnstile.
- Installs
- 100K+
- Rating
- 4.1(48)
- Downloads
- 488/day

Invisible reCaptcha
Down in the last 7 days:1#555by BerryPress12 days ago
Use reCaptcha v2 by Google to combat spam at your login and registration forms, WooCommerce account forms, contact forms, and more!
- Installs
- 70K+
- Rating
- 4.3(133)
- Downloads
- 800/day
hCaptcha for WP
#556by hcaptcha9 days ago
The strongest CAPTCHA. Switch from reCAPTCHA and Turnstile for free. Works with 60+ integrations: Contact Form 7, Elementor, WooCommerce, Divi, etc.
- Installs
- 70K+
- Rating
- 4.6(88)
- Downloads
- 1.4K/day
Image CAPTCHA for Contact Form 7 and WPForms by HookAndHook (DSGVO/GDPR)
Up in the last 7 days:2#561by hookandhook2 months ago
Adds an Image CAPTCHA to Contact Form 7 and WPForms, GDPR ready, perfect WPForms or Contact Form 7 Spam Protection Image CAPTCHA, adds a honeypot
- Installs
- 70K+
- Rating
- 4.7(49)
- Downloads
- 264/day

SilentShield
Up in the last 7 days:3#1,768by Forge12 Interactive GmbH1 month ago
SilentShield – the invisible shield against spam. Spam is the weed of the internet. It clogs your forms, steals your time, and corrupts your data.
- Installs
- 10K+
- Rating
- 4.7(24)
- Downloads
- 149/day
WPBruiser Security
Up in the last 7 days:1#1,792by WPZOOM1 day ago
Security and anti-spam without CAPTCHA. Blocks bots on forms, comments and logins, limits login attempts and hardens WordPress. No outside service.
- Installs
- 10K+
- Rating
- 4.6(213)
- Downloads
- 417/day

Simple Login Captcha
Up in the last 7 days:4#1,951by Nikolay Nikolov2 months ago
Adds a simple 3-digit number captcha on the login form.
- Installs
- 10K+
- Rating
- 3.9(17)
- Downloads
- 35/day

Captcha by BestWebSoft
Up in the last 7 days:1#1,992by bestwebsoft3 days ago
1 The Ultimate Spam Protection Plugin Using Captcha for WordPress Forms.
- Installs
- 10K+
- Rating
- 4.1(21)
- Downloads
- 284/day

Login Security Captcha
Up in the last 7 days:2#2,094by ScriptsTown1 month ago
Secure WordPress login, registration, and comment form with Google reCAPTCHA or Cloudflare Turnstile. Prevent Brute-force attacks and more.
- Installs
- 10K+
- Rating
- 4.9(20)
- Downloads
- 120/day

Friendly Captcha for WordPress
Up in the last 7 days:8#2,140by Friendly Captcha19 days ago
Friendly Captcha is a privacy-first anti-bot solution that protects WordPress website forms from spam and abuse.
- Installs
- 10K+
- Rating
- 3.9(18)
- Downloads
- 217/day

Gravity Forms No CAPTCHA reCAPTCHA
Down in the last 7 days:37#2,155by folkhack9 years ago
Adds "No CAPTCHA reCAPTCHA" field to Gravity Forms as an alternative CAPTCHA option
- Installs
- 10K+
- Rating
- 4.8(26)
- Downloads
- 21/day
DS CF7 Math Captcha
Down in the last 7 days:38#2,159by Dotsquares4 months ago
"DS CF7 Math Captcha" is a math captcha with refresh captcha functionality to prevent unwanted spam for your contact form 7 plugin.
- Installs
- 10K+
- Rating
- 5.0(8)
- Downloads
- 46/day

ReCaptcha Integration for WordPress
Up in the last 7 days:2#2,233by weDevs1 year ago
reCaptcha for login, signup, comment forms, Ninja Forms and woocommerce.
- Installs
- 9K+
- Rating
- 4.4(95)
- Downloads
- 44/day
reCaptcha Add-On for FormCraft
Up in the last 7 days:4#2,578by Formcrafts2 years ago
Add reCaptcha to your FormCraft forms.
- Installs
- 7K+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 24/day

Captcha Them All
Down in the last 7 days:4#3,020by FuzzGuard2 years ago
In any online website, hackers and unscrupulous users will try and attack your website. Whether it is trying to attack your website by brute forcing …
- Installs
- 5K+
- Rating
- 4.7(15)
- Downloads
- 24/day

Invisible Anti-Spam & CAPTCHA
Up in the last 7 days:14#3,199by Matthias Nordwig4 days ago
Invisible spam protection for every form, login and checkout. No puzzles, no checkboxes, no lost visitors — a CAPTCHA your users never see.
- Installs
- 5K+
- Rating
- 4.8(50)
- Downloads
- 171/day

Kama SpamBlock
Down in the last 7 days:10#3,328by Timur Kamaev3 months ago
Light and invisible protection against basic automated comment spam. Pings and trackbacks check for real backlinks.
- Installs
- 4K+
- Rating
- 5.0(17)
- Downloads
- 32/day

Captcha by Yandex for Contact Form 7
Down in the last 7 days:17#3,651by stasionok5 months ago
Add antispam Yandex SmartCaptcha for your forms with Contact Form 7
- Installs
- 3K+
- Rating
- 4.6(5)
- Downloads
- 29/day

BotBlocker Security
Down in the last 7 days:13#3,698by Yevhen Leonidov1 day ago
Complete security platform for everyday: block bots, brute-force, viruses, spam, fake crawlers. WAF, 2FA, no-malware, proactive defense.
- Installs
- 3K+
- Rating
- 5.0(12)
- Downloads
- 62/day

Math Captcha for Elementor Forms
Down in the last 7 days:3#4,044by albanotoska5 years ago
Wordpress Plugin that will add a simple match captcha to your Elementor Forms.
- Installs
- 3K+
- Rating
- 4.0(13)
- Downloads
- 22/day

CrowdSec
Up in the last 7 days:23#4,301by CrowdSec - lightweight and collaborative security engine10 months ago
This plugin blocks detected attackers or displays them a captcha to check they are not bots.
- Installs
- 2K+
- Rating
- 5.0(5)
- Downloads
- 28/day
Contact Form 7 Text CAPTCHA
Down in the last 7 days:12#5,339by Saurav Sharma1 year ago
Secure your website Contact Form 7 forms from bots and hackers using plugin Contact Form 7 Text CAPTCHA. Just place shortcode [captchacf7* input-captc …
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 4.5(2)
- Downloads
- 16/day

Uber reCaptcha
Up in the last 7 days:15#5,862by Razvan Aldea1 year ago
This plugin adds the reCaptcha form to the WordPress login form, recover password form, register form and comment form.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 3.7(9)
- Downloads
- 14/day

Easy Spam Filter
Down in the last 7 days:10#6,117by WPPOOL5 months ago
Add Cloudflare Turnstile to WordPress, Contact Form 7, WooCommerce, WPForms, BuddyPress & Elementor. A CAPTCHA, reCAPTCHA alternative for WordPress.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 4.0(7)
- Downloads
- 17/day

Human Presence
Down in the last 7 days:25#6,366by humanpresence2 years ago
The #1 Plugin for Blocking Form Spam on WordPress
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 4.7(15)
- Downloads
- 24/day

Mailster reCaptcha
Down in the last 7 days:2#6,682by EverPress26 days ago
Protect Mailster newsletter signup forms from spam with Google reCAPTCHA v3.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 2.0(4)
- Downloads
- 24/day

Enable Turnstile (Cloudflare) for Gravity Forms
Up in the last 7 days:23#6,750by Sully18 days ago
A lightweight plugin to enable Cloudflare's Turnstile alternative CAPTCHA on your Gravity Forms.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 5.0(3)
- Downloads
- 36/day

SKP WP Admin Login Captcha
Down in the last 7 days:19#6,990by Sandeep Kumar1 year ago
Add Google or Mathematical captcha on wordpress login page
- Installs
- 900+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 11/day

Honeypot Plus for Contact Form 7
Up in the last 7 days:50#7,109by wpdebuglog9 months ago
Honeypot Plus for Contact Form 7 - Adds honeypot plus anti-spam functionality to Contact Form 7 forms.
- Installs
- 900+
- Rating
- 3.0(2)
- Downloads
- 12/day

Power Captcha reCAPTCHA
Down in the last 7 days:24#7,208by Denis Alemán3 months ago
Protect WordPress/WooCommerce/Contact Form 7 forms from spam, brute-force attacks, fake comments, accounts, or registrations with Google reCAPTCHA.
- Installs
- 900+
- Rating
- 4.3(4)
- Downloads
- 15/day

Give
Up in the last 7 days:83#7,332by Nexcess1 year ago
Reduce donation spam with Cloudflare turnstile, a user-friendly, privacy-preserving alternative to CAPTCHA
- Installs
- 800+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 11/day

Advanced Custom Fields
Down in the last 7 days:25#7,572by Irvin Lim7 years ago
Prevent spam on your Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) v5 frontend forms with Google reCAPTCHA.
- Installs
- 800+
- Rating
- 4.2(12)
- Downloads
- 10/day

Kitgenix CAPTCHA for Cloudflare Turnstile
Up in the last 7 days:61#7,639by Kitgenix9 days ago
Add Cloudflare Turnstile to WordPress, WooCommerce and popular forms with server-side verification and anti-spam controls.
- Installs
- 700+
- Rating
- 5.0(6)
- Downloads
- 40/day
OpenPorte Spam Protection
Up in the last 7 days:410#8,461by J-C Berthon8 days ago
Stop spam without CAPTCHAs: a Proof-of-Work anti-spam check for your forms and logins. Open-source, self-hosted, privacy-first.
- Installs
- 600+
- Rating
- 5.0(5)
- Downloads
- 113/day

Contact Form Block
Down in the last 7 days:40#8,482by Jordy Meow16 days ago
Tired of those heavy and old contact forms? Try this one. Simple, yet modern, pretty and extremely optimized. No JS or CSS files are loaded.
- Installs
- 600+
- Rating
- 4.9(41)
- Downloads
- 33/day

Hizzle CAPTCHA
Up in the last 7 days:2#8,634by Noptin Newsletter Team6 days ago
Stop spam and bots across WordPress, WooCommerce, WPForms, Contact Form 7, and more with Google reCAPTCHA or Cloudflare Turnstile.
- Installs
- 500+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 28/day
TomS reCAPTCHA
Down in the last 7 days:16#8,945by TomS Caprice3 years ago
Integrated Google ReCaptcha for WordPress.Protect the login, register, lostpassword and comment forms. Support Woocommerce, Ultimate Member and more p …
- Installs
- 500+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 13/day

Eazy CF Captcha
Down in the last 7 days:39#9,080by Tamás2 years ago
Eazy C(omment)F(orm) Captcha adds a mathematic exercise to the comment form, contact form 7 & elementor, preventing bots to spam your comments and …
- Installs
- 500+
- Rating
- 4.0(4)
- Downloads
- 8/day
Blue Captcha
Up in the last 7 days:11#9,326by jotis2 months ago
Blue Captcha is a powerful and highly customized WordPress plugin that effectively protects your WP blogs from spammers and unwanted persons.
- Installs
- 400+
- Rating
- 4.7(15)
- Downloads
- 10/day
Contact Form 7 BWP reCAPTCHA Extension
Up in the last 7 days:1#9,589by manfer14 years ago
This plugin provides a new tag for the Contact Form 7 Plugin. It allows the usage of a reCAPTCHA field provided by the BWP reCAPTCHA Plugin.
- Installs
- 400+
- Rating
- 4.0(4)
- Downloads
- 7/day