CAPTCHA rate
Captcha rate is how often a target answers with a challenge instead of a page. Proxy Compare publishes none for any of the 42 providers it tracks, read 5 Oct 2026, because no provider defines it comparably. 5 providers here offer JavaScript rendering, the nearest thing to a paid answer.
Why it costs you money
Challenges bill like successes and deliver nothing, and solving them adds a per-request cost from a third-party service on top of the bandwidth. That second cost is now a figure rather than a warning: solving services charge from {cheapestSolve} to {dearestSolve} per 1,000 solves depending on the challenge, across the {captchaSolvers} we read {captchaDate}. A network with a low ban rate and a high challenge rate can be more expensive to run than one that simply blocks you, because the failure is not obvious in the logs.
See it in the data
Related terms
- Ban rateThe share of requests a target site refuses. The number that decides real cost, and the one nobody publishes.
- Success rateThe share of requests that get through. The number that decides everything, and the one no comparison table can give you.
- IP reputationHow a target site scores an address before serving it, based on what that address has done elsewhere.
- Exit nodeThe address a target website actually sees. Everything before it in the chain is invisible to the site you are fetching.
- JavaScript renderingRunning a page's own scripts in a browser before returning it. Scraping APIs charge more for it, sometimes five times a plain fetch.
- Every term we define
Questions
Will a better proxy stop the captchas?
It moves the number, it does not set it. The target decides when to challenge, and no provider among the 42 here defines a captcha rate you could compare against another, read 5 Oct 2026.
Is there anything I can buy that helps?
Two different things. 5 of the 42 providers here offer JavaScript rendering, read 5 Oct 2026, which costs more per request. Separately, a captcha solving service clears the challenge for a fee: 10 of them publish rates from $0.1 to $50 per 1,000 across 45 challenge types, read 3 Oct 2026.
Is a captcha the same as a ban?
No. A captcha is a challenge you can sometimes pass and a ban is a refusal, and they usually mean different things about how the target sees you. Both belong to the target site rather than to the address.