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Friendly Captcha

Friendly Captcha is a privacy-first, GDPR-compliant bot protection service from Germany that uses proof-of-work cryptographic puzzles instead of image-labeling challenges. The widget solves a puzzle in the background while a user fills out a form, then submits a token the server validates against the Friendly Captcha siteverify endpoint. The result includes a risk verdict and additional signal intelligence (IP, bot detection, browser identification, anonymization detection). Friendly Captcha publishes open-source widgets and framework integrations for React, Vue, and Angular, plus pre-built plugins for WordPress, Magento, and other CMS platforms.

agent ready

Limited machine-readable signal and partial portal coverage — documentation a human can read, but little a machine or agent can consume without scraping.

Kin Score

API Evangelist profiles Friendly Captcha the way a machine reads it — 12 machine-readable artifacts across 5 APIs, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.

Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — Friendly Captcha scores 42.8/100 (thin), with a separate agent-readiness read of 48/100 (agent ready). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.

Kin Score

This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance.

Kin Score Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
Composite quality — 42.8/100 · thin
Contract Quality 13.7 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 5.7 / 20
Commercial Clarity 10.0 / 20
Operational Transparency 3.4 / 13
Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 10.0 / 10
Agent readiness — 48/100 · agent ready
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 15 / 15
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

How we profile Friendly Captcha

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Friendly Captcha. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.

APIs 5

Each API is captured as its own OpenAPI definition — every operation, parameter, and response. This is the single most useful machine-readable description of what an API does, and it's what lets us score, lint, mock, and generate against it without asking the provider for anything.

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Friendly Captcha Siteverify API

The siteverify endpoint validates a Friendly Captcha solution token. The server POSTs the token and API key (with optional sitekey) and receives a JSON response indicating succe...

Friendly Captcha Widget

The Friendly Captcha widget is the JavaScript component that runs the proof-of-work puzzle in the browser and produces a solution token. It is configured via a script tag and a ...

Friendly Captcha Framework SDKs

Friendly Captcha publishes open-source wrappers for React, Vue, and Angular that expose the widget as an idiomatic component in each framework, handling lifecycle, callbacks, an...

Friendly Captcha CMS Plugins

Pre-built plugins integrate Friendly Captcha into WordPress, Magento, and other CMS platforms, letting non-developers add privacy-preserving bot defense to common forms without ...

Friendly Captcha Siteverify API

The Siteverify API from Friendly Captcha — 1 operation(s) for siteverify.

Open Collections 1

Open, tool-agnostic collections carry the same runnable value as Postman without locking you to one client — the portable, forkable form of the same exercise.

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

Pricing Plans 1

Pricing is part of the interface. Machine-readable plans tell you what a tier costs and includes before you commit — one of the six things the Kin Score reads for commercial clarity.

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Rate Limits 1

Rate limits are the difference between a demo that works and a production integration that doesn't fall over. Publishing them is an operational-transparency signal — and a hard requirement for any agent that plans its own throughput.

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Friendly Captcha Rate Limits

2 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals let a buyer model the financial operations of an API before it's live. We profile them for the same reason we profile pricing: the money is part of the contract.

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Security Posture 2

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Friendly Captcha Authentication

apiKey · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Friendly Captcha Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

An x-agentic-access contract marks which operations are safe for an agent to run on its own and which need a human in the loop. It is the difference between an API an agent can use and one it can use safely.

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Friendly Captcha Agentic Access

1 operation · 1 acting

1 operations · 1 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Every other property we hold for Friendly Captcha — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Agent Surfaces 2

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Company 2

The organization behind the API

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