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Multi-OS, cloud-based filtering protection for K-12 students

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Lightspeed Filter - 2026 Pricing, Features, Reviews & Alternatives

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Lightspeed Filter overview

What is Lightspeed Filter?

Lightspeed Filter is the best-in-class solution that protects students from harmful material to ensure their online safety. Lightspeed has the most mature and complete K-12 database in the industry, leveraging human review by data scientists and advanced AI technology to block inappropriate sites—including new and unknown ones—while still allowing access to critical educational materials. Lightspeed Filter helps technology teams scale student safety with our device-level protections that work across all devices, operating systems, and learning environments. Whether it's protecting take-home devices or customizing blocklists for grade level, we've got you covered with SSL decryption on all devices, on your network and off, all in the cloud.

Key benefits of using Lightspeed Filter

Ensure comprehensive coverage without over-blocking with the most precise web filter on the market.

Provide multi-OS SSL decryption without the need to configure proxies, PACs, or trust certificates.

Allow educational videos and block inappropriate content, thumbnails, and time-wasters—all with just a click.

Guarantee safety, CIPA compliance, and policy enforcement on networked and mobile devices—no matter where students use their devices.

Get high-level data on device use without sacrificing detailed, granular reports on individual students.

Simultaneously sync any combination of student information systems (SIS) and directory services to one centralized place with Lightspeed SmartSync technology.

Starting price

Free

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Lightspeed Filter reviews

Overall rating

4.6

/5

36

Positive reviews

100

%

Rating breakdown
  • Value for money
  • Ease of use
  • Features
  • Customer support
  • Likelihood to recommend8.61/10
Rating distribution

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Pros
“I love that it is specifically focused on school features and usage instead of being strictly technology focused.”
JG

Joel G.

IT Director

“Lightspeed deployment was straighforward and supported the cariety of devices on our network. The filter is reliable and performance is very good.”
JF

Jeffrey F.

CTO

“We have found that we enjoy the product. It is very intuitive and we find that we now have greater control and visibility over what our users are doing online.”
JP

John P.

IT Support

Cons
“When I try to run a report for a user that is getting blocked from something it lags way behind and the customer is waiting too long to get a URL unblocked because I can't see the block occuring.”
CB

Christine B.

Network Administrator

“Most of the problems I deal with are allowing access to websites or blocking. Also, white listing sites to allow programs to function correctly.”
SH

Stacey H.

Network Specalist

“No YouTube category filtering for iOS. Relies on the Relay app to be installed (we've had to prevent users from uninstalling apps).”
RP

Robert P.

Innovation Specialost

Who uses Lightspeed Filter?

Based on 36 verified user reviews.

Company size

Small Businesses

Enterprises

Midsize Businesses

Top industries

Education Management
Primary/Secondary Education
Information Technology and Services
E-Learning
Others

Use cases

K-12
Website Monitoring
Network Security
Firewall

Lightspeed Filter's key features

Most critical features, based on insights from Lightspeed Filter users:

Classroom management
Alerts/Notifications
Access controls/permissions
Reporting & statistics
Communication management
Parent portal

All Lightspeed Filter features

Features rating:

Activity tracking
Compliance management
Activity dashboard
Customizable reports
Activity monitoring
Event logs
For websites
Policy management
Real-Time monitoring
Real-Time reporting
Reporting/Analytics
SSL security
Threat response
VPN

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User opinions about Lightspeed Filter price and value

Value for money rating:

To see what individual users think of Lightspeed Filter's price and value, check out the review snippets below.

“I love that it is specifically focused on school features and usage instead of being strictly technology focused.”
JG

Joel G.

IT Director

“Lightspeed deployment was straighforward and supported the cariety of devices on our network. The filter is reliable and performance is very good.”
JF

Jeffrey F.

CTO

Lightspeed Filter integrations (1)

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Lightspeed Filter support options

Typical customers

Freelancers
Small businesses
Mid size businesses
Large enterprises

Platforms supported

Web
Android
iPhone/iPad

Support options

24/7 (Live rep)
Email/Help Desk
Knowledge Base
FAQs/Forum
Chat

Training options

Documentation
Webinars
Live Online
Videos

Lightspeed Filter FAQs

Q. What type of pricing plans does Lightspeed Filter offer?

Lightspeed Filter has the following pricing plans:
Pricing model: Subscription
Free Trial: Available

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Q. Who are the typical users of Lightspeed Filter?

Lightspeed Filter has the following typical customers:
Large Enterprises, Mid Size Business, Small Business


Q. What languages does Lightspeed Filter support?

Lightspeed Filter supports the following languages:
Arabic, Chinese (Simplified), Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian (Bokmal), Portuguese, Spanish


Q. Does Lightspeed Filter offer an API?

No, Lightspeed Filter does not have an API available.


Q. What level of support does Lightspeed Filter offer?

Lightspeed Filter offers the following support options:
24/7 (Live rep), Email/Help Desk, Knowledge Base, FAQs/Forum, Chat

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