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Yandex SmartCaptcha pricing policy

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Updated at November 17, 2025

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To calculate the cost of using SmartCaptcha, use our calculator on the Yandex Cloud website or see the pricing info below.

The prices for service products are also available in the price list.

Note

Currency of Service rates (prices) depends on the company you made a contract with:

  • Prices in US dollars are applicable to customers of Iron Hive doo Beograd (Serbia) or Direct Cursus Technology L.L.C. (Dubai).
  • Prices in Russian roubles are applicable to customers of Yandex.Cloud LLC.

All prices below do not include VAT.

What goes into the cost of using Yandex SmartCaptcha

You pay for requests to the SmartCaptcha API made at https://smartcaptcha.cloud.yandex.ru/validate. You only pay for correct requests to which the API returns the ok status. Correct requests satisfy the following conditions:

  • SmartCaptcha has identified the request as one sent by a human, not a bot.
  • Correct secret and token values were provided.
  • A unique token was issued 10 minutes ago or later.

Note

Using SmartCaptcha in restricted mode is free of charge.

Examples of SmartCaptcha cost calculation:

  1. The user has passed the CAPTCHA test resulting in a correct /validate request from the server. A fee will be charged.

  2. The user has sent an empty or incorrect token resulting in an incorrect /validate request. No fee will be charged.

  3. A backend developer has made a mistake and sent an incorrect secret or token in a response /validate request. The API will return an error in the message field. No fee will be charged.

  4. An intruder has passed the CAPTCHA test, got a token, and sent it 10 times during the first minute. The API will return the ok status only to the first request, and you will be charged for the first request only.

  5. An intruder has passed the CAPTCHA test, got a token, and sent it 10 times after 10 minutes. The API will return the failed status to all requests. You will not be charged for any of these.

Prices for the Russia region

Note

Yandex Cloud resources are priced differently in different regions. For more information about the available regions, see Regions.

Your payment currency is determined by your contracting legal entity. For more information on creating an account, see Registering an account in Yandex Cloud.

Service Price per 1,000 requests,
without VAT
Requests to the SmartCaptcha API, up to 10,000 per month Free
Requests to the SmartCaptcha API, from 10,001 to 100,000 per month $0.900000
Requests to the SmartCaptcha API, more than 100,000 per month $0.630000

You pay for the actual number of requests.

For example, if the month's total is 50,000 correct requests, your cost for the month will be:

(50,000 - 10,000) / 1,000 × $0.900000 = $36.000000

If the month's total is 100,001 correct requests, your cost for the month will be:

(100,001 - 10,000) / 1,000 × $0.630000 = $56.700630

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