Register No. 018
Is Captcha European?
Yes. Captcha is under verified European control.
Captcha GmbH is registered in Vienna as FN 602312d, at Muthgasse 2, 1190 Vienna, VAT ATU79352727. The official EVI record lists Krone Multimedia GmbH & Co. KG as its sole shareholder. Current Krone statutory disclosures trace the Austrian holding chain and explicitly identify Dr. Christoph Dichand as beneficial owner. This supports European control; directors are not treated as owners. The terms choose Austrian substantive law and the competent court for 1190 Vienna.
Latest
Nothing new on file since the check on 16 September 2026. Seen news about Captcha? Send it with a source.
- Controlled by
- Krone Multimedia / KRONE-Verlag group; disclosed beneficial owner Dr. Christoph Dichand
- Control sits in
- Austria
- Seat
Austria- Last checked
About Captcha
captcha.eu is a hosted bot-protection service from Captcha GmbH in Vienna. It offers invisible or widget-based checks and integrations for common website platforms without image-selection puzzles.
Evidence 4
- Captcha GmbH legal identitycaptcha.eu ↗
- Official EVI: Captcha GmbH and sole shareholderevi.gv.at ↗
- Official EVI: Krone Multimedia partnersevi.gv.at ↗
- Current Krone statutory ownership and beneficial owner disclosurekrone.at ↗
Sources were opened and read on the date of the check. Registers and websites change; if one of these no longer says what we cite it for, tell us.
Product
Captcha
captcha.eu ↗Austrian CAPTCHA and bot protection from the Krone group
Its documentation distinguishes the default global CDN from an optional Austria-only route. The end-user notice describes shortened IP addresses, device and browser information, referrers, pointer movement and timing signals, plus a local cookie or storage value. Broad no-data or no-cookie claims should not replace that detail.
- Instead of
- hCaptcha and reCAPTCHA
- Pricing
- A trial includes 100 verification requests. Starter costs EUR 8.90/month or EUR 96.12/year for one site and 1,000 monthly requests; Growth EUR 35.90 or EUR 387.72 for five sites and 10,000 requests; Advanced EUR 179.90 or EUR 1,942.92 for ten sites and 100,000 requests. Prices exclude VAT. Unused monthly quotas expire; extra packs expire after 12 months. Checked 16 September 2026.
- Suits
- Sites needing managed bot protection with a selectable Austrian network route.
Operations
Who runs the parts of the service we could observe from outside, checked 16 September 2026. A provider's control can differ from where its servers stand.
| Part | Provider | Provider control | What we saw |
|---|---|---|---|
| Core hosting | Krone group service on Mediaprint network | Unknown | Official docs state Austrian servers behind a default global CDN and provide an optional Austria-only route. at.captcha.at resolved via chat.captcha.eu to 156.58.253.17; IPinfo identifies AS199083 Mediaprint and Vienna. This is an endpoint observation, not proof of all backup or customer-account data locations. [1] [2] [3] |
| Public website | Akamai and Amazon CloudFront | Not European | On 16 September 2026 at 19:51 UTC, www resolved through w19.captcha.eu, krone.at.edgekey.net and e25190.e12.akamaiedge.net. The apex returned 108.156.60.128/.13/.116/.113; IPinfo identifies an Amsterdam CloudFront node in AS16509. A global front door is distinct from Austrian origin hosting. [1] [2] [3] [4] |
| Incoming email | Microsoft | Not European | MX points to captcha-eu.mail.protection.outlook.com. Mailbox content locations were not verified from a current contract. [1] |
| Outgoing email | Group mail, SendGrid, Amazon SES, Microsoft and HubSpot | Unknown | SPF authorizes group IP ranges plus sendgrid.net, amazonses.com, spf.protection.outlook.com and 147285318.spf02.hubspotemail.net. Authorization does not prove actual routing or sender volume. [1] |
| Payments | Stripe Payments Europe | Not European | Customer privacy names Stripe Payments Europe in Dublin as a separate controller for payments. Stripe group control is distinct from this entity's address and from challenge processing. [1] |
| Supporting service | Group operations, Hetzner backups and website vendors | Unknown | Current notices name Krone Multimedia for operations and Google/Didomi for website functions. The historical March 2024 DPA copy lists Krone Multimedia for hosting and operations, Mediaprint for bookkeeping, and Hetzner as a backup data centre without a region. A current signed DPA and exhaustive global-CDN transfer schedule were not obtained. [1] [2] [3] |
Austrian core hosting is a published claim, supported for the optional endpoint by a Mediaprint IP in Vienna. Default traffic uses a global CDN; current DNS shows Akamai for www and CloudFront for the apex. The end-user notice states up to six months for processed data while also asserting no personal-data storage; its listed signals still require assessment. Customer and website processing has separate retention and vendors. A public 2024 DPA copy names Hetzner backups without a region; a current signed DPA and complete transfer schedule were not obtained.
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