[aaron695]

This only works if you are Soviet Russia vs the USA and your plan is to ruin the other by draining their money and you have equal pools of cash.

Spammers don't want to hurt the company they attack if they can help it, they need them!

I don't understand why ReCAPTCHA cost so much though. A human solving them is cheaper than a computer/human hybrid creating them?

[meowface]

True, the attacker is much less likely to have anywhere near the funds of the target, and they don't want to hurt them.

Regardless of the actual price multiple, it costing anywhere near the price to serve as the price to solve just seems to defeat the point. Really, it costing any money per captcha served just punishes sites that happen to face a higher volume of bots, even if they're a small site. It's just going to push the company to switch to a different captcha service, which may be even cheaper for attackers to solve.