Free plan gated behind paid account upsell
The free tier pushes site owners toward paid account prompts and a forced sign-up before the captcha works.
Tier II · Emerging Problems that are still building up.
3 public reports · first reported 17 March 2022 · last reported 6 April 2026
What's going wrong
Site owners installing the Friendly Captcha plugin on WordPress report that the free tier leads to unexpected upgrade emails and paid account prompts.
AI-assisted: written with the help of AI from the reports. The idea report has the full summary.
In the idea report
- The full summary.
- The products the 3 reports are about, and how many came each month.
- Related problems.
No business has been found with this problem yet, so the report has no contacts. All sales are final — no refunds. Pricing.