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ALTCHA and CAPTCHA.eu solve the same problem: bot protection without cookies or reCAPTCHA’s privacy overhead, but they do it in fundamentally different ways. ALTCHA is open-source and self-hosted. CAPTCHA.eu is a managed, EU-hosted service. The right choice depends on how much infrastructure your team wants to own and what your compliance situation actually requires.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The core difference<\/strong><\/strong><\/h3>

ALTCHA runs on your own infrastructure. CAPTCHA.eu<\/a> runs on ours. That single difference drives almost every other trade-off in this comparison<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Who ALTCHA suits<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/h3>

Teams with DevOps capacity who want full data sovereignty, are comfortable with Docker\/Kubernetes, and are willing to own maintenance and uptime<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Who CAPTCHA.eu suits<\/strong><\/strong><\/h3>

Teams who want verified EU hosting, zero ops overhead, official plugins for WordPress and TYPO3, and a straightforward compliance story for DPOs<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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What this guide covers<\/h2><\/div>