CAPTCHA solver affiliate and revenue-share programs compared (2026)
Most CAPTCHA solvers now pay you to bring them usage. The programs come in two shapes: a referral link that pays when someone signs up, and a developer ID (AppID or soft_id) that pays on every solve routed through your code. The rates look similar on the surface. The real differences are how you earn and whether the reward is cash or account balance.
Here is the cross-vendor picture. Nobody publishes this in one place, because each provider only documents its own program.
The comparison at a glance
Rates below are as advertised in 2026. Several are tiered by volume or run as limited promos, and payout terms shift, so treat these as a starting point and confirm the current terms on each provider before you build around a number. Sources are linked at the end.
| Service | Referral | Developer (AppID / soft_id) | Reward form |
|---|---|---|---|
| CapMonster Cloud | up to ~30% | Promo codes | Account balance |
| CapSolver | Yes (~10%) | AppID, up to ~20% tiered | Account balance |
| 2Captcha | ~10% | soft_id, ~10% | Account balance |
| EzCaptcha | Yes | AppID, ~5% to 20% | Account balance |
| Anti-Captcha | ~10% | App-based earning | Account balance |
| NextCaptcha | ~10% | AppID, ~10% | Account balance |
| Peak | 20% | AppID, 5% per solve | Solve credit |
Which CAPTCHA service pays the most for referrals?
On the headline number, CapMonster Cloud sits highest, advertising up to around 30% on referrals. Most of the field clusters near 10%. Peak sits at 20%.
The headline number is not the whole story, though. A 30% referral rate on a service your audience rarely tops up is worth less than a 20% rate on one they use daily. Referral income tracks the spend of the people you bring in, so a solver that fits your readers matters more than a couple of percentage points. If your audience is scraping Cloudflare Turnstile all day, a Cloudflare specialist earns you more than a general service with a bigger poster number.
Referral vs developer programs: which earns more?
It depends on what you make.
A referral link rewards reach. You write a tutorial, someone reads it, clicks through, signs up, and you earn a slice of their spend from then on. Great if you publish or have an audience. It does nothing if the people using your work never see your link.
A developer ID rewards usage. You embed an AppID in a tool, and every solve that tool makes pays you, with no signup required from the person running it. Great if you ship code that calls a solver. This is the one most developers overlook, because it is buried in docs and SDK READMEs while the referral link gets the marketing.
If you both publish and ship code, run both. They do not compete. One earns on clicks, the other on requests.
Do these programs pay cash or account credit?
Mostly credit. Across the field, earnings land in your provider balance and you spend them on your own solving. A few services offer a cash path for large affiliates, usually with a threshold and a review. If your goal is a bank transfer rather than free solves, read the payout terms closely, because the default nearly everywhere is balance.
This matters for how you think about the reward. Balance-only earning is effectively a discount on your own usage, which is excellent if you are already buying solves and mediocre if you are not.
What about CapMonster's up to 30%?
It is real and it is the highest referral rate advertised here, so if raw referral percentage is your only metric, that is the one to note. Read the fine print on how the rate tiers and what it applies to. And weigh it against fit. Thirty percent of very little is less than twenty percent of a service your audience actually spends on. Rate is one input. Match to your traffic is the other.
Where Peak fits
Peak runs both programs and keeps them plain. Referrals pay 20% of what the people you refer spend. The AppID pays 5% of every solve made through your integration, yours or your users'. Both land as solve credit in your balance.
The honest limitation, stated up front because the thin affiliate pages tend not to: Peak pays in solve credit, not cash. You spend it on Cloudflare Turnstile and 5s solving. For a developer who is already buying solves, that is a straight discount on usage with no payout process to wait on. If you specifically want cash out, a cash affiliate program elsewhere is the better tool, and that is a fair call to make.
If credit works for you, the setup is a minute. See how the splits work on the earn page, grab a link under Referrals, or create an AppID under Developer. For how Peak compares as a solver rather than a program, there is a side-by-side on pricing and speed.
Sources: CapMonster, CapSolver, 2Captcha, EzCaptcha, Anti-Captcha and NextCaptcha program pages, as advertised in 2026. Rates and payout terms change; confirm current terms with each provider.