2Captcha vs CapMonster Cloud: price per 1,000 solves
2Captcha and CapMonster Cloud both publish a rate for 9 challenge types.On 3 Oct 2026, 2Captcha started at $0.5 per 1,000 solves and CapMonster Cloud at $0.3. Each quotes that unit itself, so nothing below is converted.
What each charges, on the challenges both price
Widest disagreement first. Each price carries the service’s own label, kept word for word, because two rows naming the same challenge are not always the same work: a score band, a grid variant or an invisible version can carry its own rate.
Variant-specific conditions appear where collected. An absent condition remains unknown; required external proxy traffic costs are separate from solve rates.
| Challenge | 2Captcha | CapMonster Cloud |
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| NetEase Yidun |
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| GeeTest |
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| Tencent |
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| reCAPTCHA v2 |
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| Text captcha |
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| reCAPTCHA v3 |
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| Cloudflare Turnstile |
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| Amazon WAF captcha |
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| reCAPTCHA Enterprise |
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Every figure is a price per 1,000 solves taken from the service’s own rate card, oldest read 3 Oct 2026. The widest gap is NetEase Yidun, where the two are about 3.0 times apart. CapMonster Cloud is lower on 8 of 9. A cheaper rate that clears fewer challenges costs more per page you keep, and neither publishes a success figure you could check that against.
Who does the solving
Behind a solving API is a model, a person, or a model that hands the hard ones to a person. It changes what you are buying and it is the question fewest services answer.
- 2Captcha
Solved by a model with people behind it, in its own words. It publishes what it pays the solver: $0.14 - $0.6 per 1000, read 5 Sept 2026. Its cheapest published rate to a buyer is $0.5 per 1,000. Both figures come from its own pages and nothing is calculated between them: the wage names no challenge type and every buyer price names one.
- CapMonster Cloud
Does not state who or what solves the captcha. It publishes no figure for what a solver is paid.
How much each one covers
2Captcha publishes a price for 40 challenge types and CapMonster Cloud for 10, read 3 Oct 2026. The 9 above are the ones both price. Breadth matters when your targets change: a service that does not price the challenge you hit next is not cheaper, it is unavailable. Every rate, by service and by challenge sets both against the other eight.
Common questions
- Is 2Captcha cheaper than CapMonster Cloud?
- On 3 Oct 2026, across the 9 challenges both price, CapMonster Cloud publishes the lower rate on 8 of them and 2Captcha on 0. Cheapest published is not cheapest in use: nothing here measures whether either clears the challenge it charges for.
- Who actually solves the captcha at 2Captcha and CapMonster Cloud?
- 2Captcha says a model with people behind it and CapMonster Cloud says does not say. Where a service states nothing, that is a gap in what it publishes rather than evidence either way.
- Which covers more challenge types?
- 2Captcha publishes a price for 40 challenge types and CapMonster Cloud for 10. This page compares only the 9 both price, because a rate one of them does not publish cannot be compared against anything.