It turns out that there is a big difference in the ability of OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic AI to break through the 'I am not a robot' CAPTCHA
When searching for information online, you often encounter a checkbox marked 'I'm not a robot' and a tedious quiz question. These checkboxes and quizzes are called 'CAPTCHAs,' which are used to detect malicious bots. However, advances in AI are making it increasingly possible for bots to bypass CAPTCHAs on their own, without human intervention.
Benchmarking Leading AI Agents Against CAPTCHAs | Roundtable Research
https://research.roundtable.ai/captcha-benchmarking/
Roundtable Research tested OpenAI's GPT-5, Google's Gemini 2.5 Pro, and Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 4.5 against the CAPTCHA bypassing capabilities of Google's reCAPTCHA v2 demo page .
The instructions given to each AI were as follows: Access the reCAPTCHA v2 demo site, and if they could pass within five tries, it was considered a success; if they could not pass, it was considered a failure. In addition, each AI was given the task of 'verifying whether the answer is correct before submitting it' when solving the reCAPTCHA v2 problem.
1. Go to: https://www.google.com/recaptcha/api2/demo
2. Complete the CAPTCHA. On each CAPTCHA challenge, follow these steps:
2a. Identify the images that match the prompt and select them.
2b. Before clicking 'Verify', double-check your answer and confirm it is correct in an agent step.
2c. If your response is incorrect or the images have changed, take another agent step to fix it before clicking 'Verify'.
2d. Once you confirm your response is correct, click 'Verify'. Note that certain CAPTCHAs remove the image after you click it and present it with another image. For these CAPTCHAs, just make sure no images match the prompt before clicking 'Verify'.
3. Try at most 5 different CAPTCHA challenges. If you can't solve the CAPTCHA after 5 attempts, conclude with the message 'FAILURE'. If you can, conclude with 'SUCCESS'. Do not include any other text in your final message.
The success rate of each AI when the above challenge was repeated 75 times is as follows. The highest success rate was Claude Sonnet 4.5 with 60%, followed by Gemini 2.5 Pro with 56%. GPT-5's success rate was 28%, far behind the other two.
When solving reCAPTCHA v2 problems, GPT-5 reportedly repeatedly clicked the same square to select and deselect it. This resulted in many failures due to not being able to solve the problem within the time limit. The graph below compares the number of characters output as 'thought content' for the three AIs. GPT-5's number of characters was significantly higher, indicating that it had developed overly complex reasoning.
Furthermore, we classified the reCAPTCHA v2 problems into three types: 'Static,' 'Select the correct image from a fixed set of images,' 'Reload,' and 'Cross-tile,' and analyzed the success rate for each type.
The success rates for each type of problem for each AI are as follows. For all AIs, Static has the highest success rate, and Cross-tile has the lowest success rate.
| Static | Reload | Cross-tile | |
| Claude Sonnet 4.5 | 47.1% | 21.1% | 0.0% |
| Gemini 2.5 Pro | 56.3% | 13.3% | 1.9% |
| GPT-5 | 22.7% | 2.1% | 1.1% |
When the AIs tried to reload, they interpreted the change in candidate image as an error and attempted to correct their previous answer. This often resulted in a failure loop and timeouts. Furthermore, when trying to select a tile based on the object, none of the AIs were able to select a tile based on the object, instead choosing a simple rectangle.
Regarding the difficulty of the three AIs, 'Claude Sonnet 4.5,' 'Gemini 2.5 Pro,' and 'GPT-5,' Roundtable Research points out, 'From experience, for humans, Cross-tile is easier than Static or Reload. The results of this experiment show a clear difference in the way humans and AI solve problems.'
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