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CapSolver alternative
The CapSolver Alternative With No Balance to Top Up
CapSolver and CapSkip both solve with AI. With CapSkip that AI runs on your own computer for one monthly price, and whatever already talks to CapSolver carries on after a one-click switch.
Windows x64·Runs locally, so no CAPTCHA leaves your machine
- Local AI, not cloud AI
- Nothing billed per 1,000
- Your setup stays as is
CAPTCHAs a month40,000
40.0k250.0k
$21.00stays in your pocketevery month, at this volume
If you are shopping for a CapSolver alternative, the AI is probably not what bothers you; the meter is. CapSolver reads CAPTCHAs with machine learning on its own cloud servers and charges by the thousand, drawing on credit you load in advance, so every busy week brings the next top-up closer. CapSkip keeps the AI and takes away the meter.
CapSkip is a self-hosted CAPTCHA solver: a Windows app whose recognition models run on a PC, VPS or dedicated server you control. A single subscription, $35 a month for one machine, covers unlimited solves and every thread that machine can run. Because no outside solving service is involved, an image CAPTCHA is read in roughly a tenth of a second, a reCAPTCHA or Turnstile pass usually lands within 3 to 10 seconds, and your jobs never queue behind another customer's.
Moving over is not a rebuild. A switch in the CapSkip app lets it play the part of CapSolver, after which the bots, scripts and libraries you configured for CapSolver carry on unchanged while your own hardware does the answering.
Keep the CapSolver key you already use. Your tools can go on sending it, because CapSkip takes any key until you choose to require ones created in the app. There is no CapSolver account, balance or package behind it, so no job stalls halfway because credit ran dry. Open the API docs
What changes when the AI moves onto your machine
Same kind of AI, now next to your code
Like CapSolver, CapSkip relies on trained recognition models, not human workers. The models simply run on your own hardware, so no job has to travel to a solving service and back.
A subscription in place of a balance
CapSolver takes each solve from prepaid credit, and its packages exist to make that credit cheaper. CapSkip keeps no credit at all: one monthly fee covers whatever volume your machine can manage.
A drop-in replacement for CapSolver
The app speaks CapSolver's dialect, task names included, so the jobs your tools submit today need no renaming or rewriting before your first local solve.
Your target list stays private
Every cloud job carries the site you are working on and the challenge taken from it. CapSkip handles both on your computer, so no solving company ever sees your projects.
New image types trained for free
If CapSkip struggles with an unusual image CAPTCHA on one of your targets, that type gets trained into its models at no charge and is then covered by the same flat plan.
Enterprise at no extra cost
CapSolver lists reCAPTCHA v3 Enterprise at $3.00 per 1,000, almost four times its v2 rate. On CapSkip, Enterprise is covered by the same flat fee as Turnstile, GeeTest v3 and every other type.
Three ways to bring CapSolver work to CapSkip
import time
import requests
# CapSolver's createTask / getTaskResult flow, answered by CapSkip
# on your own machine instead of api.capsolver.com.
CAPSKIP = "http://127.0.0.1:8084"
KEY = "ANY_STRING" # a real key only if you enable validation in CapSkip
task = requests.post(f"{CAPSKIP}/createTask", json={
"clientKey": KEY,
"task": {
"type": "ReCaptchaV2TaskProxyLess",
"websiteURL": "https://example.com/",
"websiteKey": "YOUR_SITEKEY",
},
}).json()
while True:
time.sleep(5)
res = requests.post(f"{CAPSKIP}/getTaskResult", json={
"clientKey": KEY,
"taskId": task["taskId"],
}).json()
if res["status"] == "ready":
print(res["solution"]["gRecaptchaResponse"])
breakThe request your CapSolver code already makes, task name and all, now handled on your own computer instead of in CapSolver's cloud.
In the browser, without code
Replacing the CapSolver extension? Add CapSkip's add-on to Chrome or Firefox and keep the app open; supported CAPTCHAs on pages you visit get cleared for you.
New projects on the official SDKs
Writing fresh code? CapSkip's own SDKs (Python, Node.js, PHP, .NET) return a solve from one call, with no task to submit and then check on.
CapSolver tools, answered locally
Bots and scripts that expect CapSolver keep sending what they send now, and your machine answers. Software written for 2Captcha and seven further services can be redirected just as easily.
See a pass arrive before you leave CapSolver
The demo pages load genuine CAPTCHA widgets of the kinds your CapSolver jobs meet. Run CapSkip with its browser extension, open one, and watch your own machine clear it before you move a single tool across.
Migrating from CapSolver: install, sign in, switch
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Install CapSkip where your jobs run
Install the app on the same Windows PC, VPS or server your CapSolver jobs use now; answers are then produced right beside the tools that ask for them. Download the installer
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Get a license or a trial
Plans differ only in machine count, from one on Bronze up to three on Gold. Want proof on your own targets before paying? Begin with the free trial, then sign in. Try it free for three days
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Switch your CapSolver tools over
In the app, make CapSolver the service CapSkip stands in for, then press one button to redirect its traffic. Your tools still believe they reach CapSolver, but the answers come from your machine. Follow the setup guide
Leaving CapSolver: what carries over, what you adjust
The CapSkip app answers CapSolver requests on your own computer. This is what carries over, the one setting you change, and where the switch stops.
| Keeps working | Your CapSolver bots, scripts and client libraries, with the task names and steps they already use |
|---|---|
| What you change | Pick CapSolver as the service CapSkip imitates, then let the app write the hosts entry for you with one button |
| Your CapSolver key | Leave it as it is: CapSkip takes any key unless you enable key checking and issue your own |
| Jobs your CapSolver code may send | reCAPTCHA v2 and v3 with both Enterprise editions, Cloudflare Turnstile and the full-page Cloudflare check, GeeTest v3, AWS WAF CAPTCHA, hCaptcha, MTCaptcha, image CAPTCHAs |
| Image CAPTCHAs | Answered at once in the first reply, just as CapSolver does, in about 0.1 seconds |
| Proxies | Advised for Turnstile targets to avoid blocks; you set them up once in the app |
| Not covered | FunCaptcha and GeeTest v4 jobs, plus tools locked to CapSolver's api-stable address |
CapSolver vs CapSkip: cloud AI or local AI
Both sides use machine learning. What differs is where the model runs, what each solve costs you, and how much of your work a third party gets to see.
| Feature | CapSkip | CapSolver |
|---|---|---|
| Where the AI runs | Hardware you run yourself | CapSolver's remote cloud servers |
| How you pay | Flat monthly plan with no setup charge | Per 1,000, drawn from a prepaid balance |
| reCAPTCHA v2 | Included in $35 a month on Bronze | $0.80 per 1,000 |
| reCAPTCHA v3 Enterprise | Same flat plan, no surcharge | $3.00 per 1,000 |
| Image CAPTCHAs | About 0.1 s each, read locally | $0.40 per 1,000 |
| Sent to a solving service | Nothing | The site you target and the challenge itself |
| Break-even at list price | Cheaper above about 43,800 reCAPTCHA v2 a month | Cheaper below that volume |
CapSolver pricing per 1,000 against one flat plan
CapSolver's published rates per 1,000, the monthly total each reaches when you run 100,000 solves every month, and the CapSkip side of the same workload.
| CAPTCHA type | CapSolver per 1,000 | CapSolver at 100,000 a month | CapSkip |
|---|---|---|---|
| Image CAPTCHA | $0.40 | $40 | In the plan, about 0.1 s each |
| reCAPTCHA v2 | $0.80 | $80 | In the plan, at any volume |
| reCAPTCHA v3 | $1.00 | $100 | No per-solve charge |
| reCAPTCHA Enterprise | $1.00 (v2) to $3.00 (v3) | $100 to $300 | No Enterprise surcharge |
| Cloudflare Turnstile | $1.20 | $120 | Widget and full-page check included |
| GeeTest v3 | $1.20 | $120 | Included on every tier |
Rates as listed on CapSolver's pricing page in September 2026; CapSolver says its prepaid packages can cut them by up to 50%. At list price, Bronze at $35 a month wins once you pass roughly 43,800 reCAPTCHA v2 solves a month.
Pricing
Stop paying per solve
Choose your license
Bronze License
$35/ month
Instant license activation
Billed monthly. Cancel from your account whenever you like.
Same features. More machines, more throughput.
Every machine solves as fast as its own CPU and memory allow. More machines run more threads at the same time, so Silver solves twice as many CAPTCHAs at once and Gold three times as many.
- Unlimited solving, no daily cap
- Unlimited threads, speed scales with your hardware
- 90% to 100% recognition accuracy
- Drop-in replacement for the major solving service APIs
- Works with almost any tool, no coding required
- REST API, SDKs and a browser extension
- Free training when a new CAPTCHA type appears
- Runs on your machine, nothing leaves it
Every CAPTCHA type CapSkip solves is on every license. See the coverage band
Just want to try it first?
Start with a free 3-day trial and solve 500 CAPTCHAs of any type on your own targets.
CapSolver competitors and alternatives, side by side
From your code's point of view, every service here works much like CapSolver, so the real choice is who or what does the solving, and how the bill is built.
| Service | Who or what solves | reCAPTCHA v2 per 1,000 | Fit for CapSolver code |
|---|---|---|---|
| CapSkip | AI models on hardware you own | No rate: $35 a month on Bronze | Takes CapSolver requests as they are, locally |
| CapMonster Cloud | Machine learning on remote servers | $0.60 | Similar style, but expects its own task names |
| Anti-Captcha | Human workers on every task, by its own account | $0.95 to $2 | Similar style, with Anti-Captcha task names |
| 2Captcha | Remote AI, with people as backup | $1 to $2.99 | Close in its newer API, different in the old one |
List prices as each vendor published them, checked September 2026. FunCaptcha is outside what CapSkip solves, through this API or any other.
When staying with CapSolver makes sense
CapSolver keeps the edge in two situations: low monthly volume, and a tool that only knows an address the switch leaves alone.
Under about 43,800 reCAPTCHA v2 a month
At $0.80 per 1,000, CapSolver costs less than Bronze below roughly 43,800 solves a month, and its discount packages, which it says save up to 50%, push that line higher still.
A tool locked to the api-stable address
CapSkip redirects CapSolver's main addresses, not this one. A program that talks to api-stable.capsolver.com, with no setting to change that, will go on using CapSolver rather than CapSkip.
Cost, speed and data with a local CapSolver alternative
CapSolver solves CAPTCHAs with AI, and so does CapSkip: both read them with trained models. They differ in two places: which computer runs the model, and how each solve is paid for. Those two decisions shape your bill, your waiting time and how much of your work an outside company sees.
Cost first. In the cloud, every recognition uses the provider's hardware, so it is sold by the thousand: CapSolver lists reCAPTCHA v2 at $0.80 per 1,000 and v3 Enterprise at $3.00, paid from a prepaid balance. Every pass you ask for is a new charge, including the ones you request again because the first expired unused. When the hardware is yours, the price can be flat, so a CapSkip plan bills a slow month and a record month identically.
Speed comes next. A cloud request travels to the provider, waits among other customers' jobs and travels back. Locally there is no trip and no line: image CAPTCHAs take about 0.1 seconds, and reCAPTCHA or Turnstile, which need a real browser, usually take 3 to 10 seconds. Threads are not capped on any plan, so how much you run at once depends only on your CPU and memory.
Then there is your data. Each cloud job reveals the site you are working on along with the challenge from it, and over thousands of jobs that adds up to a clear map of your projects. Local AI keeps that map on your own machine, which matters when your targets or your clients are confidential.
CapSolver already uses AI, so what does switching change?
Two things: where the AI runs and how you pay for it. CapSolver keeps its models in its cloud and bills per 1,000 from a balance. CapSkip keeps its models on your own computer or rented server, for a flat monthly price, which removes the trip to a remote server, the shared queue and the top-ups.
At what volume does CapSkip become cheaper than CapSolver?
At CapSolver's list price of $0.80 per 1,000 reCAPTCHA v2, Bronze at $35 a month pulls ahead past roughly 43,800 solves a month. At 100,000 solves, CapSolver's list price comes to $80 against the same $35. Pricier types such as Turnstile at $1.20 or v3 Enterprise at $3.00 reach that point much sooner.
Will the tools I built around CapSolver keep working?
Yes, for the reCAPTCHA, Cloudflare, GeeTest v3 and image jobs they send. After you pick CapSolver in the app and press the button that redirects its traffic, requests aimed at CapSolver's main addresses get answered by your own machine, in the shape your tools expect and under CapSolver's task names. You edit nothing in the tools themselves.
CapSolver needs no hardware from me. What does CapSkip need?
Image CAPTCHAs are light work that opens no browser, so an ordinary Windows computer or VPS copes well. reCAPTCHA, Turnstile and GeeTest each drive a real browser out of sight, so for those, 32 GB or more of memory is advised, more so with many running together. If one machine is not enough, Silver covers two and Gold three.
Is there a CapSkip replacement for the CapSolver extension?
Yes. CapSkip's own add-on, available for Chrome and Firefox, gets its answers from the CapSkip app running locally, so you never paste a key or keep an eye on credit. It notices supported CAPTCHAs as pages load and clears them, which suits form filling and other browser work done without code.
Are reCAPTCHA Enterprise jobs extra on CapSkip?
No. CapSolver lists v2 Enterprise at $1.00 per 1,000 and v3 Enterprise at $3.00, the top of its reCAPTCHA price list. On CapSkip both come with every plan, and Enterprise jobs your CapSolver tools send are answered locally like any other reCAPTCHA, most of them in 3 to 10 seconds.
Which CapSolver jobs will CapSkip turn down?
FunCaptcha jobs fail, as do GeeTest v4 and reCAPTCHA Mobile, because CapSkip does not solve those types. A tool locked to CapSolver's api-stable address is also left out, since only CapSolver's main addresses are redirected. Keep any such work on a machine where the switch is off.
My Playwright scripts get passes from CapSolver. What changes?
Nothing in the script, as long as it reaches CapSolver at its main address. With the switch on, the same calls are answered by your own machine and the script drops each pass into the page exactly as before. For new scripts, the CapSkip SDKs for Python and Node.js return a pass from a single call.
Run your CapSolver jobs on your own machine
Point your CapSolver tools at CapSkip with one switch and let your own computer handle the solving, for one monthly price that holds whether the month brings a thousand CAPTCHAs or a million.