diff --git a/pkgs/python-packages-overrides.nix b/pkgs/python-packages-overrides.nix
--- a/pkgs/python-packages-overrides.nix
+++ b/pkgs/python-packages-overrides.nix
@@ -225,13 +225,6 @@ self: super: {
     };
   });
 
-  recaptcha-client = super.recaptcha-client.override (attrs: {
-    meta = {
-      # TODO: It is MIT/X11
-      license = pkgs.lib.licenses.mit;
-    };
-  });
-
   python-editor = super.python-editor.override (attrs: {
     meta = {
       license = pkgs.lib.licenses.asl20;
diff --git a/pkgs/python-packages.nix b/pkgs/python-packages.nix
--- a/pkgs/python-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/python-packages.nix
@@ -1627,19 +1627,6 @@
       license = [ pkgs.lib.licenses.bsdOriginal { fullName = "LGPL+BSD"; } { fullName = "GNU Library or Lesser General Public License (LGPL)"; } ];
     };
   };
-  recaptcha-client = super.buildPythonPackage {
-    name = "recaptcha-client-1.0.6";
-    buildInputs = with self; [];
-    doCheck = false;
-    propagatedBuildInputs = with self; [];
-    src = fetchurl {
-      url = "https://pypi.python.org/packages/0a/ea/5f2fbbfd894bdac1c68ef8d92019066cfcf9fbff5fe3d728d2b5c25c8db4/recaptcha-client-1.0.6.tar.gz";
-      md5 = "74228180f7e1fb76c4d7089160b0d919";
-    };
-    meta = {
-      license = [ { fullName = "MIT/X11"; } ];
-    };
-  };
   redis = super.buildPythonPackage {
     name = "redis-2.10.6";
     buildInputs = with self; [];
@@ -1683,7 +1670,7 @@
     name = "rhodecode-enterprise-ce-4.12.0";
     buildInputs = with self; [pytest py pytest-cov pytest-sugar pytest-runner pytest-catchlog pytest-profiling gprof2dot pytest-timeout mock WebTest cov-core coverage configobj];
     doCheck = true;
-    propagatedBuildInputs = with self; [setuptools-scm amqp authomatic Babel Beaker celery Chameleon channelstream click colander configobj cssselect decorator deform docutils dogpile.cache dogpile.core ecdsa FormEncode future futures gnureadline infrae.cache iso8601 itsdangerous Jinja2 billiard kombu lxml Mako Markdown MarkupSafe msgpack-python MySQL-python objgraph packaging Paste PasteDeploy PasteScript pathlib2 peppercorn psutil psycopg2 py-bcrypt pycrypto pycurl pyflakes pygments-markdown-lexer Pygments pyparsing pyramid-beaker pyramid-debugtoolbar pyramid-jinja2 pyramid-mako pyramid pysqlite python-dateutil python-ldap python-memcached python-pam pytz tzlocal pyzmq py-gfm recaptcha-client redis repoze.lru requests Routes setproctitle simplejson six SQLAlchemy sshpubkeys subprocess32 supervisor Tempita translationstring trollius urllib3 URLObject venusian WebError WebHelpers2 WebHelpers WebOb Whoosh wsgiref zope.cachedescriptors zope.deprecation zope.event zope.interface nbconvert bleach nbformat jupyter-client alembic invoke bumpversion transifex-client gevent greenlet gunicorn waitress uWSGI ipdb ipython CProfileV bottle rhodecode-tools appenlight-client pytest py pytest-cov pytest-sugar pytest-runner pytest-catchlog pytest-profiling gprof2dot pytest-timeout mock WebTest cov-core coverage];
+    propagatedBuildInputs = with self; [setuptools-scm amqp authomatic Babel Beaker celery Chameleon channelstream click colander configobj cssselect decorator deform docutils dogpile.cache dogpile.core ecdsa FormEncode future futures gnureadline infrae.cache iso8601 itsdangerous Jinja2 billiard kombu lxml Mako Markdown MarkupSafe msgpack-python MySQL-python objgraph packaging Paste PasteDeploy PasteScript pathlib2 peppercorn psutil psycopg2 py-bcrypt pycrypto pycurl pyflakes pygments-markdown-lexer Pygments pyparsing pyramid-beaker pyramid-debugtoolbar pyramid-jinja2 pyramid-mako pyramid pysqlite python-dateutil python-ldap python-memcached python-pam pytz tzlocal pyzmq py-gfm redis repoze.lru requests Routes setproctitle simplejson six SQLAlchemy sshpubkeys subprocess32 supervisor Tempita translationstring trollius urllib3 URLObject venusian WebError WebHelpers2 WebHelpers WebOb Whoosh wsgiref zope.cachedescriptors zope.deprecation zope.event zope.interface nbconvert bleach nbformat jupyter-client alembic invoke bumpversion transifex-client gevent greenlet gunicorn waitress uWSGI ipdb ipython CProfileV bottle rhodecode-tools appenlight-client pytest py pytest-cov pytest-sugar pytest-runner pytest-catchlog pytest-profiling gprof2dot pytest-timeout mock WebTest cov-core coverage];
     src = ./.;
     meta = {
       license = [ { fullName = "Affero GNU General Public License v3 or later (AGPLv3+)"; } { fullName = "AGPLv3, and Commercial License"; } ];
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -65,7 +65,6 @@ pytz==2018.3
 tzlocal==1.5.1
 pyzmq==14.6.0
 py-gfm==0.1.3
-recaptcha-client==1.0.6
 redis==2.10.6
 repoze.lru==0.7
 requests==2.9.1
diff --git a/rhodecode/apps/login/tests/test_register_captcha.py b/rhodecode/apps/login/tests/test_register_captcha.py
--- a/rhodecode/apps/login/tests/test_register_captcha.py
+++ b/rhodecode/apps/login/tests/test_register_captcha.py
@@ -97,16 +97,16 @@ class TestRegisterCaptcha(object):
             assertr.no_element_exists('#recaptcha_field')
 
     @pytest.mark.parametrize('valid', [False, True])
-    @mock.patch('rhodecode.apps.login.views.submit')
+    @mock.patch.object(LoginView, 'validate_captcha')
     @mock.patch.object(LoginView, '_get_captcha_data')
     def test_register_with_active_captcha(
-            self, m_get_captcha_data, m_submit, valid, app, csrf_token):
+            self, m_get_captcha_data, m_validate_captcha, valid, app, csrf_token):
         captcha = CaptchaData(
             active=True, private_key='PRIVATE_KEY', public_key='PUBLIC_KEY')
         m_get_captcha_data.return_value = captcha
         m_response = mock.Mock()
         m_response.is_valid = valid
-        m_submit.return_value = m_response
+        m_validate_captcha.return_value = valid, 'ok'
 
         params = {
             'csrf_token': csrf_token,
diff --git a/rhodecode/apps/login/views.py b/rhodecode/apps/login/views.py
--- a/rhodecode/apps/login/views.py
+++ b/rhodecode/apps/login/views.py
@@ -25,10 +25,10 @@ import formencode
 import formencode.htmlfill
 import logging
 import urlparse
+import requests
 
 from pyramid.httpexceptions import HTTPFound
 from pyramid.view import view_config
-from recaptcha.client.captcha import submit
 
 from rhodecode.apps._base import BaseAppView
 from rhodecode.authentication.base import authenticate, HTTP_TYPE
@@ -124,6 +124,29 @@ class LoginView(BaseAppView):
         return CaptchaData(
             active=active, private_key=private_key, public_key=public_key)
 
+    def validate_captcha(self, private_key):
+
+        captcha_rs = self.request.POST.get('g-recaptcha-response')
+        url = "https://www.google.com/recaptcha/api/siteverify"
+        params = {
+            'secret': private_key,
+            'response': captcha_rs,
+            'remoteip': get_ip_addr(self.request.environ)
+        }
+        verify_rs = requests.get(url, params=params, verify=True)
+        verify_rs = verify_rs.json()
+        captcha_status = verify_rs.get('success', False)
+        captcha_errors = verify_rs.get('error-codes', [])
+        if not isinstance(captcha_errors, list):
+            captcha_errors = [captcha_errors]
+        captcha_errors = ', '.join(captcha_errors)
+        captcha_message = ''
+        if captcha_status is False:
+            captcha_message = "Bad captcha. Errors: {}".format(
+                captcha_errors)
+
+        return captcha_status, captcha_message
+
     @view_config(
         route_name='login', request_method='GET',
         renderer='rhodecode:templates/login.mako')
@@ -262,17 +285,15 @@ class LoginView(BaseAppView):
             form_result['active'] = auto_active
 
             if captcha.active:
-                response = submit(
-                    self.request.POST.get('recaptcha_challenge_field'),
-                    self.request.POST.get('recaptcha_response_field'),
-                    private_key=captcha.private_key,
-                    remoteip=get_ip_addr(self.request.environ))
-                if not response.is_valid:
+                captcha_status, captcha_message = self.validate_captcha(
+                    captcha.private_key)
+
+                if not captcha_status:
                     _value = form_result
                     _msg = _('Bad captcha')
-                    error_dict = {'recaptcha_field': _msg}
-                    raise formencode.Invalid(_msg, _value, None,
-                                             error_dict=error_dict)
+                    error_dict = {'recaptcha_field': captcha_message}
+                    raise formencode.Invalid(
+                        _msg, _value, None, error_dict=error_dict)
 
             new_user = UserModel().create_registration(form_result)
 
@@ -339,15 +360,13 @@ class LoginView(BaseAppView):
                 user_email = form_result['email']
 
                 if captcha.active:
-                    response = submit(
-                        self.request.POST.get('recaptcha_challenge_field'),
-                        self.request.POST.get('recaptcha_response_field'),
-                        private_key=captcha.private_key,
-                        remoteip=get_ip_addr(self.request.environ))
-                    if not response.is_valid:
+                    captcha_status, captcha_message = self.validate_captcha(
+                        captcha.private_key)
+
+                    if not captcha_status:
                         _value = form_result
                         _msg = _('Bad captcha')
-                        error_dict = {'recaptcha_field': _msg}
+                        error_dict = {'recaptcha_field': captcha_message}
                         raise formencode.Invalid(
                             _msg, _value, None, error_dict=error_dict)
 
diff --git a/rhodecode/config/licenses.json b/rhodecode/config/licenses.json
--- a/rhodecode/config/licenses.json
+++ b/rhodecode/config/licenses.json
@@ -305,9 +305,6 @@
   "python2.7-pyzmq-14.6.0": {
     "BSD 4-clause \"Original\" or \"Old\" License": "http://spdx.org/licenses/BSD-4-Clause"
   },
-  "python2.7-recaptcha-client-1.0.6": {
-    "MIT License": "http://spdx.org/licenses/MIT"
-  }, 
   "python2.7-repoze.lru-0.6": {
     "Repoze License": "http://www.repoze.org/LICENSE.txt"
   }, 
diff --git a/rhodecode/templates/admin/settings/settings_global.mako b/rhodecode/templates/admin/settings/settings_global.mako
--- a/rhodecode/templates/admin/settings/settings_global.mako
+++ b/rhodecode/templates/admin/settings/settings_global.mako
@@ -65,26 +65,26 @@
     </div>
     <div class="panel-body">
         <div class="label">
-            <label for="rhodecode_captcha_public_key">${_('Google ReCaptcha public key')}</label>
+            <label for="rhodecode_captcha_public_key">${_('Google reCaptcha v2 site key.')}</label>
         </div>
         <div class="field input">
             ${h.text('rhodecode_captcha_public_key',size=60)}
         </div>
         <div class="field">
             <span class="help-block">
-                ${_('Public key for reCaptcha system.')}
+                ${_('Site key for reCaptcha v2 system.')}
             </span>
         </div>
 
         <div class="label">
-            <label for="rhodecode_captcha_private_key">${_('Google ReCaptcha private key')}</label>
+            <label for="rhodecode_captcha_private_key">${_('Google reCaptcha v2 secret key.')}</label>
         </div>
         <div class="field input">
             ${h.text('rhodecode_captcha_private_key',size=60)}
         </div>
         <div class="field">
             <span class="help-block">
-                ${_('Private key for reCaptcha system. Setting this value will enable captcha on registration')}
+                ${_('Secret key for reCaptcha v2 system. Setting this value will enable captcha on registration and password reset forms.')}
             </span>
         </div>
     </div>
diff --git a/rhodecode/templates/password_reset.mako b/rhodecode/templates/password_reset.mako
--- a/rhodecode/templates/password_reset.mako
+++ b/rhodecode/templates/password_reset.mako
@@ -61,6 +61,7 @@
                             <label for="email">${_('Captcha')}:</label>
                             ${h.hidden('recaptcha_field')}
                             <div id="recaptcha"></div>
+
                             %if 'recaptcha_field' in errors:
                               <span class="error-message">${errors.get('recaptcha_field')}</span>
                               <br />
@@ -78,14 +79,20 @@
     </div>
 </div>
 
-%if captcha_active:
-<script type="text/javascript" src="https://www.google.com/recaptcha/api/js/recaptcha_ajax.js"></script>
-%endif
 <script type="text/javascript">
  $(document).ready(function(){
     $('#email').focus();
-    %if captcha_active:
-      Recaptcha.create("${captcha_public_key}", "recaptcha", {theme: "white"});
-    %endif
  });
 </script>
+
+% if captcha_active:
+<script type="text/javascript">
+var onloadCallback = function() {
+    grecaptcha.render('recaptcha', {
+      'sitekey' : "${captcha_public_key}"
+    });
+};
+</script>
+<script src="https://www.google.com/recaptcha/api.js?onload=onloadCallback&render=explicit" async defer></script>
+% endif
+
diff --git a/rhodecode/templates/register.mako b/rhodecode/templates/register.mako
--- a/rhodecode/templates/register.mako
+++ b/rhodecode/templates/register.mako
@@ -110,14 +110,21 @@
     </div>
 </div>
 
-%if captcha_active:
-<script type="text/javascript" src="https://www.google.com/recaptcha/api/js/recaptcha_ajax.js"></script>
-%endif
+
 <script type="text/javascript">
-$(document).ready(function(){
+ $(document).ready(function(){
     $('#username').focus();
-    %if captcha_active:
-      Recaptcha.create("${captcha_public_key}", "recaptcha", {theme: "white"});
-    %endif
-});
+ });
 </script>
+
+% if captcha_active:
+<script type="text/javascript">
+var onloadCallback = function() {
+    grecaptcha.render('recaptcha', {
+      'sitekey' : "${captcha_public_key}"
+    });
+};
+</script>
+<script src="https://www.google.com/recaptcha/api.js?onload=onloadCallback&render=explicit" async defer></script>
+% endif
+