Payment Schedules

hCaptcha Payouts run quarterly on a 60 day trailing basis. To illustrate what this means, please see the table below.

Traffic Between Reconciliation Date Payout Date
Oct 15th 2022 - Jan 15th 2023 Mar 5th-15th 2023 Mar 5th-Apr 5th 2023††††
Jul 15th 2022 - Oct 15th 2022 Jan 5th-15th 2023 Jan 5 - Feb 5th 2023††††
Apr 15th 2022 - Jul 15th 2022 Sep 5th-15th 2022 Sep 5th - Oct 16th 2022††††
Jan 15th 2022 - Apr 15th 2022 Jul 5th-15th 2022 Jul 5th - Aug 5th 2022††††
Oct 15th 2021 - Jan 15th 2022 Apr 5th-15th 2022 Apr 5-15th 2022
Jul 15th 2021 - Oct 15th 2021 Jan 5th-15th 2022 Jan 5-21st 2022†††
Apr 15th 2021 - Jul 15th 2021 Sep 14th-24th 2021†† Sep 15th-25th 2021††
Jan 15th 2021 - Apr 15th 2021 No later than Jun 25th 2021† Jun 19-25th 2021†
Oct 15th 2020 - Jan 15th 2021 No later than Mar 14th 2021 Mar 15th 2021

†††† Enhanced review procedures have been put in place to ensure compliance with new US and EU sanctions. This will cause some payouts to be delayed when flagged for review. Please reply punctually to any system emails requesting action in order to reduce processing times.

††† As Jan 15th falls on a weekend and Monday is a national holiday, this payout cycle will end on Jan 21st instead.

†† From September 2021, reconciliations and payouts now run over an approximately 30 day period rather than a single day, in order to simplify operational constraints related to growth in the service.

† Some June 2021 reconciliations and payouts will run in the following week due to delays in verification of final calculations during the reconciliation window.
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Payouts typically run throughout the day on the Payout Date, and are in general completed by midnight Pacific time. If an account has been flagged for review, it may take up to five additional business days to release a payment.
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As a reminder, only accurate human traffic is eligible for payouts. You can see more details on this in our FAQ, linked below. Available balance must also meet a minimum threshold in order to be eligible for payout, currently 10 HMT.

Real-time estimates do not reflect final accuracy or humanity, and thus your final earnings may vary substantially up or down from numbers shown in the Dashboard prior to your first reconciliation.

After each reconciliation, your per-sitekey estimates will be updated and the accuracy of future predictions should increase, unless your site has a material change in user behavior.

What does Reconciliation mean?

Reconciliation is the process whereby traffic is analyzed after the fact to verify its humanity and accuracy, once all data from all reporting sites is in. You can read more details in our FAQ as well as our blog posts, e.g. How hCaptcha Calculates Rewards.

Are you planning to speed this process up?

Yes, we are currently working on a variety of improvements to our backend systems that we expect will eventually allow us to offer both faster reconciliation, more rapid estimation accuracy, and faster payouts. We are currently working to speed up reconciliation first.