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Bot Protection next to the others

How each tool tells people from bots, what your visitors see, what happens when it is down, and what it costs. Sourced from each vendor's own pages, with when the other is the better choice.

At a glance

Feature	Bot Protection	Turnstile	reCAPTCHA	hCaptcha	DataDome	Fingerprint
Nothing for your visitors to solve	Yes	Yes	Yes	On a paid plan only	Partly	Yes
Never in your request path	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
A class, a score and the reasons on every answer	Yes	No	On a paid plan only	On a paid plan only	Partly	On a paid plan only
Fails open by design	Yes	No	Partly	No	Yes	No
A monitor mode before it blocks anyone	Yes	No	Partly	No	Yes	Does not apply
Free to start	14 days, 10,000 decisions	Unlimited	10,000 a month	No limit stated	A trial, length not stated	1,000 a month, without bot detection
Cheapest paid plan, a month	$29 for 1 million	Enterprise only, through sales	$8 for 100,000	$139 for 100,000	$3,830 for 100 million, on a yearly contract	$99 for 20,000
1 million a month costs	$29	$0	$908	$1,030	$3,830	$4,019

✓ yes, $ only on a paid plan, ~ partly, ✗ no, · does not apply: it never blocks, your code does. Prices in US dollars a month; a yearly contract is shown as a twelfth. From each vendor's docs, SDKs and pricing pages, read on 17 October 2026; each comparison below has the details and the sources.