How to choose standard plan for recaptcha

[tcrlr]

How to choose standard plan for recaptcha

Here is the plans for recaptcha

https://cloud.google.com/security/products/recaptcha?hl=en#pricing

I want to go for "reCAPTCHA Standard".

I created  "reCAPTCHA Essentials" and  manage recaptcha from for 

https://www.google.com/u/2/recaptcha/admin/site/xxx

and display key details at 

https://console.cloud.google.com/security/recaptcha/xxx

I used 4K of 10K so far. I enabled billing (free trial currently). 

And I created reCAPTCHA Enterprise

https://www.google.com/recaptcha/admin/enterprise

But I cannot find at anywhere where can I choose stadard plan for the google recaptcha product

[kwaku]

All three reCAPTCHA tiers (Essentials, Standard and Enterprise) run on the reCAPTCHA Enterprise API. We know it’s a bit confusing to have to enable an “enterprise” API if you’re just looking for the most basic setup, but the advantage is it makes it a lot easier to seamlessly upgrade when needed.

All you need to do is to enable the API and create a key and the system will automatically assign you to the most appropriate tier. Below is the basic logic:

1. If you create a new account without billing enabled you will be put in the Essentials tier. That gives you 10K assessments per month on a basic set of features.
2. If your account has billing enabled congratulations you are in the Standard tier. This gives you access to advanced features, and don’t worry you still get 10K free assessments.
3. When you hit 10K+1 assessments each month in the Standard tier you will be charged a flat $8 that covers your usage up to 100K assessments.
4. At 100K+1 assessments each month you automatically transition to the Enterprise tier where you will be charged $0.001 per assessment over 100K.
5. For high volume users, contact Sales to discuss a subscription with volume discounts.

Hope that helps. Thank you for being a reCAPTCHA customer!

[Sysadmin21]

I am late to the party but is there a way to limit a google cloud projects recaptcha spending to the standard tier? I want the max recaptchas ceiling to be 10K(standard account ceiling), after this the managers of this recaptcha account can contact us if they need more assessments. 

[kwaku]

This is a great question. You can use the GCP Cloud Quota feature to set daily limits on the reCAPTCHA Enterprise API. It's not a perfect solution because I know ideally one would want to set a monthly quota to match how the billing works. We're looking into how we might be able to augment that functionality. In the meantime here are a couple ideas on how you could use the existing capability:

1. The default quota is "Unlimited." You could set it to something like 4,000 requests per day if you generally have uniform traffic throughout the month. The max potential bill for that would be $28 if somehow the limit was hit everyday in a 30-day month. Typically we see usage drop off on weekends so that is unlikely.
2. Another approach would be to restrict unexpected activity bursts that would drive up usage. You would do that by setting a per second or per minute quota.