Pay as you go or a monthly site plan?
Compare expected spend per covered site, not just total workspace traffic. Pay as you go charges for billed solves; monthly site plans charge for site slots, with lower prices for additional slots.
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The first site's break-even is five million reCAPTCHA solves
| Product | Per 1,000 solves | 100,000 solves |
|---|---|---|
| reCAPTCHA v3 Enterprise | $2.00 | $200 |
| Kasada | $1.25 | $125 |
| Ticketmaster TMPT | $0.99 | $99 |
The first monthly site slot costs $10,000. At $2 per thousand, 5,000,000 reCAPTCHA solves cost exactly $10,000: 5,000,000 ÷ 1,000 × $2. Below that volume, pay as you go has the lower listed cost for that site.
If that site's expected monthly spend approaches or exceeds $10,000, compare its monthly plan coverage. Five million is a price break-even, not a capacity or performance promise.
Additional sites get cheaper; earlier slots don't
| Site slot | Monthly price for each added site |
|---|---|
| First site | $10,000 |
| Sites 2–3 | $7,500 |
| Sites 4–6 | $5,000 |
| Sites 7–9 | $3,500 |
| Sites 10+ | $2,500 |
Two sites cost $17,500/month: $10,000 + $7,500. Three cost $25,000/month—not $22,500. Reaching the next tier doesn't reprice the earlier slots.
Ten sites total $53,000/month: $10,000 + two at $7,500 + three at $5,000 + three at $3,500 + one at $2,500. The tenth site's $2,500 price doesn't apply to all ten.
Kasada and TMPT have product-specific plan slots. Check the exact coverage on the billing page; don't assume one slot covers multiple sites or all three products.
Separate account credit from recurring charges
The minimum credit deposit is $10, and welcome credit is $5. A deposit funds the workspace balance; it isn't a recurring subscription charge. Compare ongoing usage costs and monthly plan charges before applying account credit or bonuses.
For pay-as-you-go estimates, count billed solves rather than accepted website requests. A ready task is billed, and a failed solve is refunded. If the website rejects a generated solution, that isn't the same as a failed solver task and doesn't establish an automatic refund.
That distinction matters at break-even: five million solutions accepted by a website may require more than five million billed solves. Base the comparison on your billed usage, not only the number of successful downstream requests.
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