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A privacy‑first, self‑hostable Proof‑of‑Work CAPTCHA service designed to replace Google reCAPTCHA and similar services while staying GDPR‑compliant.

Go Latest v1.34.0 · 21d ago Security brief →

Features

  • Adaptive challenge difficulty with configurable options
  • Low‑resource, optimized backend for efficient operation
  • Lightweight, customizable widget (including an invisible mode)
  • Backend usage statistics without tracking personal data

Recent releases

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v1.34.0 New feature

On-disk cache persistence

v1.31.0 Security relevant
Notable features
  • Difficulty rules system
Full changelog
  • New feature: Difficulty rules system (docs)
  • Various security bugfixes
v1.29.0 Mixed
Notable features
  • Self-hosted license now available for community edition
  • Configurable concurrency tuning for maintenance jobs
  • Timeouts added to widget puzzle fetching operations
Full changelog
  • introduce self-hosted license for community edition
  • add ability to tune maintenance job concurrency
  • add timeouts to widget fetching puzzle operations
  • improve backfill logic of invalid sitekeys
  • take maintenance mode into account for /ready endpoints
  • add masked IP address to audit logs
  • fix HTTP handler path in Prometheus metrics
v1.28.0 Mixed
Notable features
  • API key rotation
  • Java and Ruby integrations
  • Property and organization transfers
Full changelog

NOTE: Versioning now follows semver logic so this release v1.28.0 follows v0.0.27 practically speaking

  • Audit logs
  • Java and Ruby integrations
  • Split account statistics per organization
  • API key rotation
  • Ability to invite to org a non-user by email
  • Move property / Transfer org functionality
  • Improve code coverage to 80%
  • Load testing and performance improvements for /puzzle and /verify endpoints

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Downloads/week
166 ↓30%
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Contributors
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Install & Platforms

Install via
docker

Alternative to

Google reCAPTCHA hCaptcha CloudFlare Turnstile

Beta — feedback welcome: [email protected]