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With reCAPTCHA or Turnstile, every visitor to your forms is also seen by Google or Cloudflare. Bot403 is a small EU provider that sees only what it needs to stop bots: no cookies, no tracking, and no IP addresses stored. Your visitors' data does not go to a big corporation.
| Topic | Bot403 | Google reCAPTCHA | Cloudflare Turnstile |
|---|---|---|---|
| Price | free for 5,000 checks a month, then from €3 a month | free for 10,000 a month, then from $8 a month | free, larger plans on request |
| Cookies | none, nothing to add to your cookie banner | sets the _GRECAPTCHA cookie | can set a pre-clearance cookie |
| Who sees your visitors | only Bot403, hosted in the EU; no IP addresses stored, no cookies, no tracking | Cloudflare | |
| Setup | one script tag and one server call; sign in with an email | a Google Cloud project with billing | a Cloudflare account |
Why it matters
- Less to explain. No cookie means no line in your cookie banner. Visitor data stays in the EU, so your privacy policy stays short.
- Nothing else on your page. The visitor's browser talks only to Bot403, not to Google's or Cloudflare's networks.
- Simple setup. Sign in with an email, add one script tag and one server call. No Google Cloud project, no Cloudflare account.
Setup is one script tag and this one server call:
curl -X POST https://bot403.com/api/v1/verify \
-H "Authorization: Bearer sk_live_YOUR_SECRET_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"solution": "<the _bot403 field from the form>"}'