Google reCaptcha won't be free anymore

Just received an email from Google saying they’ll change a few things around and that there will be a usage limit on their free tier.

It’s unclear if we’ll be able to just have it “break” when we reach that limit or if Google will require us to add payment information and only let us know “how much we used” at the end of each term.

It feels a bit like those AWS services you never know how much will cost because it depends on usage and you can’t prepay and make it stop when reaching a target.

The ones amongst us using their service on our forms and elsewhere might have to adjust a few things, depending on traffic (not my case, but when something becomes chargeable, a few metrics tend to change, like clicks on ads vs organic ones and their conversion likelihood :smirk:).

Be prepared to shell out some money if that feature is important to you and you have enough traffic (or “potential”, you know what I mean…).

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It will remain “Free up to 10,000 assessments per month”

https://cloud.google.com/recaptcha/docs/compare-tiers

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Thanks! I was checking that. The problem is that if we can’t make it stop working instead of being charged when we pass their limits, we might be surprised with “millions of views” out of nowhere, for any given reason. Being that from Google or malicious third parties, which is why the Captcha is there on the first place.

I wonder if that “Essentials” plan means the system just stops working when you reach that limit and you receive a message, or if there’s other consequences. :thinking:

I hope Cloudflare doesn’t start doing the same. :grimacing:

And other mega corporations…

#IDontNeedHeatedSeats :grin:

I might consider upgrading, though (if I can set a maximum per month). :wink: