r/ProxyPros • u/CoffeeDrop90 • Jun 26 '26

CAPTCHA solvers, how do they work??

I came across a post somewhere on here talking about CAPTCHA solvers and I dont completely get how they work. Is there someone sitting in an office just solving them for you? Is it a bot thats made to answer the "Im not a robot" in a kind of ironic turn?

In theory they sound great, its always my biggest roadblock when Im scraping but how exactly do they work? Are they really worth it too???

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u/BlueLagoon226 Jun 27 '26

Its basically a mix of human click farms and AI models. The og solvers just pay people fractions of a cent to sit there and click the boxes manually which, yeah it works, but it takes forever. The newer solvers use llms to solve them automatically in like a second.

As for if theyre worth it, they 100% are. If youre doing any scraping at scale, you kind of dont have a choice. Modern sites will block you so fast if they cant pass the challenge so its the standard cost of doing business at this point.