Readers land here mid-decision, usually with a cart open somewhere. The fastest thing we can do is set out what 2Captcha publishes, what it does not, and what a few dollars of testing settles better than any argument.
The record we hold
The domain is 2captcha.com.
2Captcha is not in our priced record, so nothing about their rate appears below. That gap is stated rather than filled, which is the only honest option available.
Look for the tier you would actually land in, not the one at the bottom of the table, and find the expiry and failed-request clauses before the rate impresses you.
What 2Captcha says about itself today
Read 9 September 2026, the homepage titles itself "AI captcha solver: Bypass reCAPTCHA and any captchas using best auto captcha solving service API".
What else that page states, without interpretation:
The product lines named on that page are residential, SOCKS5 and a scraping or SERP API. Support is advertised as around the clock. Their pricing page is titled "Captcha prices".
Treat all of it as advertising, because it is. Its value is that it is dated and quotable, which is more than most comparison pages offer.
The domain record
The domain was registered on 22 April 2014, through Name.com, Inc, which makes it about 12 years old. That record was read from the registry on 9 September 2026. The registry shows it renewed to 22 April 2027.
Read that as a floor rather than a recommendation. Longevity says somebody has kept paying the registrar, and in a market with this much churn that is worth ten seconds of your attention.
What they have built around the product
A crawl of 1.632 pages returned 180 blog pages and 3 pricing pages.
That mix tells you how the company sells. Heavy location pages mean a geography-led pitch, heavy blog means a search-led one, and a single pricing page usually means one simple offer or one sales call.
Signs of life
Our crawl of their site found 1,632 pages carrying a date, 180 of them articles. The oldest is from August 2026 and the newest from August 2026. 1,632 of them carry a date inside the last twelve months.
An actively maintained site is table stakes rather than a recommendation. It does rule out the failure that costs buyers the most here, which is prepaying a company that has quietly stopped.
The demand around this name
The Keyword Planner puts brand demand at 1,070 a month: 590 a month for a review of them, 390 a month for their pricing and 90 a month for an alternative to them. Figures read from Google Keyword Planner on 9 September 2026.
Weighted towards people checking whether to trust it. A comparison that ignores that and opens with a pitch has misread the room.
The parts no marketing page answers
What happens when it breaks at two in the morning
Every provider works when nothing is wrong. The difference shows up on the day a subnet gets flagged or a gateway stops answering. Before committing volume, send one real question through the support channel and time the reply.
Why a cheap address is often a used one
Ask how many accounts can sit on one address at once. Where the answer is unlimited or unspecified, price the plan as shared regardless of what the product is called.
Who pays for the requests that fail
On a hard target, failures are the majority of your traffic. Whether those failures are billed decides the real cost, and the clause covering it is rarely on the pricing page.
Side by side, with the blanks left blank
This is the shortest table that still decides the purchase:
| Question to ask | 2Captcha | HProxy |
|---|---|---|
| Entry price | Not verified by us, read their page | From $0.44/GB, pay as you go |
| Does unused balance expire? | Worth confirming in writing before you commit | Never |
| Minimum commitment | Their terms page answers this | None |
| Identity checks | Check the current terms, this one moves | Card orders are screened, and verification is sometimes requested |
| Targeting | Not published clearly, ask before paying | Country, city and ISP |
| Free way to evaluate | On their own terms page | Free proxy list and proxy checker |
That comparison covers what is publishable. What is not publishable, and what actually decides this, is how many of your requests come back correct.
The ten minute version of this decision
For a few dollars you can get a verdict specific to your job, which no comparison page can honestly promise you.
- Open an account on each and add the smallest amount they take. Skip the trial if a paid unit is cheap enough to buy outright.
- Point both at your real target, through your real tool, on the same day, with the same mix of requests.
- Log successes, failures and gigabytes used. Cost per successful request is the figure you are after.
- Verify a slice of the exits independently. Country labels in this market are self-reported and are not always right.
- Take the winner and set a reminder to run this again, since a result has a shelf life of about a quarter.
The other names that come up
Other providers in the same bracket, priced and dated the same way:
- Exactseek alternatives
- Expatshield alternatives
- Expressvpn alternatives
- Ezproxies alternatives
- Famoid alternatives
- Fastcrw alternatives
The competing offer, for completeness
We are the pay as you go option in this market. Residential from $0.44 per GB, ISP and datacenter per address, mobile alongside them, all from one balance with nothing to forfeit. That model wins on irregular volume and loses on very large steady volume, which is worth knowing before you test.
