HumanIO vs CAPTCHA

Two ways to tell a person from a script. One interrupts the person; one watches the input.

Side by side

HumanIOCAPTCHA challenges
User frictionNone — scoring is passive.A puzzle, every time it fires.
AccessibilityNo visual or audio task to fail.A known barrier for many users.
SignalMotor and keystroke behaviour over a session.One point-in-time challenge.
Defeated byA generator that models human motor behaviour — which is why we ship one, to test against.Solver services, cheaply.
Best useContinuous risk scoring behind the scenes.A hard gate on a single high-value action.

Which to choose

Behavioural scoring should carry the everyday load; keep a challenge in reserve for the few actions where a wrong answer is expensive. Cloudflare Turnstile is a good version of the challenge half, and it is what this site uses.

About HumanIO

HumanIO generates behaviourally realistic human input data for mouse and keyboard, and ships the matching detectors that score any input stream as human or bot.

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