2Captcha vs CapSolver for Cloudflare Turnstile
2Captcha lists $1.45 per 1,000 Turnstile solves and CapSolver lists $1.20, both read off their own pages on 25 August 2026. The price is the easy part — the difference that decides most integrations is how each one handles a full-page Cloudflare challenge, which is a different product from the embedded widget and which they treat very differently.
The prices, and where they came from
Both figures were read off each vendor's own live page on 25 August 2026. Neither is copied from another comparison, which is how the numbers in this niche usually go wrong.
| 2Captcha | CapSolver | |
|---|---|---|
| Turnstile, per 1,000 | $1.45 | $1.20 |
| Read from | 2captcha.com/pricing | docs.capsolver.com/en/pricing/ |
| Cloudflare Challenge | Same method, same price | Separate task type, same price |
| Published free tier | None published | None published |
So CapSolver is the cheaper of the two on list price, by about 17%. That is worth about $0.25 per thousand solves — at a million solves a month, roughly $250.
Both are list prices. Several vendors in this market discount by volume or sell prepaid packages, and none of those effective rates are published in a form anyone can quote, so a comparison at list is the only honest one available.
Cloudflare Challenge is where they actually differ
The price is the headline and the challenge-page handling is the thing that decides whether either works for you. A full-page Cloudflare interstitial is a different product from an embedded Turnstile widget — a different integration whose required parameters and returned credentials depend on the provider. Turnstile vs Cloudflare challenge works through the difference.
2Captcha: Same price, same method — their Turnstile call takes action, data and pagedata for a challenge page rather than a separate task type.
CapSolver: A separate product at the same price. AntiCloudflareTask, documented as requiring a static or sticky proxy — "please use static proxy or sticky proxy instead of rotating proxy".
Check which of those you need before comparing anything else. A vendor that does not sell challenge-page solving is cheap for a job it cannot do.
The API, and the SDK you would actually use
2Captcha — Both styles. The v1 in.php/res.php polling API with method=turnstile, and a v2 JSON API at api.2captcha.com/createTask with TurnstileTaskProxyless or TurnstileTask.
CapSolver — JSON createTask / getTaskResult. The Turnstile task type is AntiTurnstileTaskProxyLess — note the capital L in ProxyLess, which differs from every other vendor's spelling and is a genuine source of 400s. Their synchronous getToken endpoint supports reCAPTCHA types only, so Turnstile is polling-only.
Task-type names are the commonest integration error in this market, because they are almost but not quite consistent across vendors. Copying one from a competitor's documentation produces a 400 that reads like an auth problem.
2Captcha clients: The broadest of the four. An official GitHub organisation with Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, PHP, C#, Go, Java, Ruby and C++, and @2captcha/captcha-solver on npm doing about 110,000 downloads a month — the largest official client in this comparison.
CapSolver clients: Its official documentation includes Python and Go API examples and now documents capsolver-core, an async Python client with token and Playwright browser workflows, including Turnstile. Checked on 5 September 2026. Check the publisher and supported task types of the particular client you intend to use; the age of the older capsolver package does not describe the whole SDK offering.
What each one claims about itself
Both figures below are self-reported and neither is independently verified — including ours. They are here because what a vendor chooses to publish is itself informative.
2Captcha: No usable Turnstile figure. Their solving-speed cell renders as 0 sec. without JavaScript, because it is a live statistic populated client-side.
CapSolver: < 3S for Turnstile and < 10S for Cloudflare Challenge on their homepage table, plus an unquantified "high success rate". Self-reported.
Note how few Turnstile-*specific* numbers exist across this whole market. Most published success rates are site-wide figures covering image captchas and reCAPTCHA, which are different problems with different economics.
Where we fit, stated plainly
We sell a competing service, so weigh this accordingly. SolveGate does Cloudflare Turnstile and Turnstile WAF and nothing else — no reCAPTCHA, no hCaptcha, no image captchas. Against 2Captcha's $1.45 and CapSolver's $1.20, our prepaid rate starts at $0.40 per 1,000 and reaches $0.075 at volume, with challenge-page solving included rather than sold separately.
The narrowness is the trade. If you need reCAPTCHA or hCaptcha as well, both of the services on this page cover more ground than we do and one call to a single vendor is worth something. If Turnstile is the whole problem, a specialist is cheaper and the request shape is smaller: a sitekey, a page URL, a token returned through one endpoint.
Failed solves are never billed, the first 1,000 are free, and the checker needs no account at all if you only want to know what a page is running. The solve reference has the call; pricing has the whole curve.
How to check any of this yourself
Every source URL is printed above, which is deliberate. This page states a date because prices move, and a comparison without one is a claim about an unspecified past.
- 2Captcha:
2captcha.com/pricing - CapSolver:
docs.capsolver.com/en/pricing/ - Ours:
solvegate.io/pricing, which reads from the same catalog the checkout charges from.
If the numbers here disagree with what you find, the vendor's page wins and we would like to know — tell us and it gets corrected with a new date rather than quietly edited.
Common questions
Which is cheaper for Turnstile, 2Captcha or CapSolver?
CapSolver, at $1.20 per 1,000 against $1.45. Both figures were read off each vendor's own page on 25 August 2026, and both are list prices — volume discounts and prepaid packages are not published in a quotable form by either.
Do both handle Cloudflare challenge pages as well as the widget?
2Captcha: Same price, same method — their Turnstile call takes action, data and pagedata for a challenge page rather than a separate task type. CapSolver: A separate product at the same price. AntiCloudflareTask, documented as requiring a static or sticky proxy — "please use static proxy or sticky proxy instead of rotating proxy".
Why do the task type names matter?
Because they are almost consistent across vendors and not quite. Copying a task type from one vendor's documentation into another's API produces a 400 that often reads like an authentication failure, and the capitalisation differs in at least one case.
Are these prices current?
They were read on 25 August 2026 from the URLs printed on this page, and the set is re-checked quarterly. If you are reading much later, open the source URL — that is why it is printed rather than summarised.
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