I only went with what is popular. At the time of doing this, getting captcha up and running was the top priority.

Having used Google reCaptcha before I immediately set it up.

Would you recommend hcaptcha over reCaptcha?

Yes, HN generally seems against reCaptcha, mainly because of (understandable) Google paranoia and the fact that reCaptcha is significantly worse UX if you have privacy-centric extensions or browsers (overrepresented in HN compared to the average).

During my quick research, I remember stumbling upon comparisons. The only thing hcaptcha wins over reCaptcha is the fact that it's not owned by google.

it's also better UX for firefox. I have to go through multiple questions in reCaptcha every time I get the "not a robot" button. hCaptcha, from what I've seen, hasn't needed multiple sets of image solves to allow me through.

Well there's been a lot of heat/hate for hCaptcha too since Cloudflare adopted it once Google decided to start charging it's biggest users of reCaptcha.

People where ggetting hit mostly on Firefox, and mainly when non being identifiable as using a google account/service so captcha wouldn't even show.

So the answer is maybe I guess, if you think you will need the scale at which point google might wanna charge you for using it's service.

The way I look at it is how many times would users really want to change their phone number.. it's a one off case.

So, I don't think we will fall under the segment where Google might have to charge us.

PS: Didn't know Google had started charging now.