Compare features between reCAPTCHA tiers

This page lists reCAPTCHA features across the Essentials, Premium, and Enterprise tiers. Learn more about how billing works.

For more information about the tiers, contact your account representative or Google Cloud sales.

Feature Essentials Premium Enterprise
Provides free, foundational bot protection, with enterprise logging, dashboards, and global fraud reports. Provides enhanced bot, account and transaction protection. Provides comprehensive protection with advanced features tailored for security and fraud analysts, including custom policies, advanced analytics, extended risk scoring, and account manager support.
Monthly assessment cost
  • Free up to 10,000 assessments*
  • Requires a valid billing instrument in Google Cloud
  • 1 - 10,000 assessments: Free*
  • 10,001 - 100,000 assessments: $8.00 per 1,000 assessments
  • More than 100,000 assessments: $1.00 per 1,000 assessments
Fixed monthly volume commitment at $1 per 1,000 assessments.
Commitment None Monthly + Pay-As-You-Go Subscription (Minimum 12 months)
Bot Protection
Network bot defense Yes Yes Yes
Enterprise bot defense Yes (4 levels) Yes (11 levels) Yes (11 levels)
Visual bot challenges Yes Yes Yes
Explainability reasons No Basic Advanced
Policy-based challenge No Yes Yes
Mobile Protection
iOS SDK Yes Yes Yes
Android SDK Yes Yes Yes
Account Protection
Account defense N/A Basic explainability reasons Account takeover risk score, and advanced explainability reasons
Password defense No Yes** Yes**
SMS defense No Yes** Yes**
Annotation API No Yes Yes
Related accounts API No No Yes
Transaction Protection
Carding detection No Yes** Yes**
Chargeback detection No Yes** Yes**
Explainability reasons No Yes Yes
Annotation API No Yes Yes
API-only transaction defense No No Yes
Enterprise Analytics
Global fraud report Yes Yes Yes
Enterprise dashboard Yes Yes Yes
Platform logging Yes Yes Yes
Customer-specific fraud report No No Yes
Attack investigation No No Yes
Support
Community forum Yes Yes Yes
Customer support Available from Google Cloud Available from Google Cloud Available from Google Cloud
Dedicated account management No No Yes
  • * The free 10,000 assessments are per organization. The limit aggregates use across all accounts and all sites.
  • ** Requires an extra assessment.

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