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Flashstart 2026: Benefits, Features & Pricing

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Overview

Flashstart
Flashstart
4.8
(73)

Pricing

Starting at $10.00 per year

About Flashstart

Flashstart is an internet filtering service that assists businesses with DNS-based content or URL filtering, malware protection, and internet usage reporting. Businesses can utilize geoblocking capability to restrict user access across countries and prevent ransomware and other threats from entering the network.

Administrators can implement filtering policies based on users, groups and internal workstations, block botnet, phishing or malware attacks and manage clients in isolation on a multi-tenant dashboard. Professionals can set up automated malware mitigation by allowing or blocking social networks, search engines, news, ads and other macro-categories.

Flashstart provides an API, which allows businesses to integrate Flashstart with third-party applications such as dashboards or Active Directory. Other features include GDPR compliance, whitelisting, threat control, search, endpoint protection and more.

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Flashstart Pricing and Plans

Starting price: $10.00 per year
Free Trial
Free Version

Basic

$10.00

per user, per year

No plan information available

    Flashstart Features

    • Popular features found in Network Security
      Anomaly/Malware Detection
      Anti Virus
      Compliance Management
      Intrusion Prevention System
      Patch Management
      Policy Management
      Real-Time Monitoring
      Reporting/Analytics
      Risk Alerts
      VPN
      Vulnerability Scanning
    • More features of Flashstart
      Access Controls/Permissions
      Activity Monitoring
      AI/Machine Learning
      Anti Spam
      API
      Endpoint Management
      Endpoint Protection
      Firewalls
      For MSPs
      Threat Protection
      Threat Response
      Whitelisting/Blacklisting

    Flashstart User Reviews

    Overall Rating

    4.8

    Ratings Breakdown

    5

    79%

    4

    21%

    3

    0%

    2

    0%

    1

    0%

    Secondary Ratings

    Ease of Use

    4.8

    Value for money

    4.8

    Customer support

    4.9

    Functionality

    4.7

    LX

    Labinot X.

    Verified reviewer

    Information Technology and Services

    11-50 employees

    Used daily for less than 12 months

    Reviewed December 2022

    FlashStart the best product

    5

    Ratings Breakdown

    5
    Ease of use
    5
    Value for money
    5
    Customer support
    5
    Functionality
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    Pros:
    the security it offers and the functionality
    Cons:
    nothing, because it has all the necessary functions for a safer environment on the Internet

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    PM

    Pier Luca M.

    Verified reviewer

    Information Technology and Services

    2-10 employees

    Used daily for more than 2 years

    Review source

    Reviewed March 2020

    Simply to configure - hight protection

    5

    Ratings Breakdown

    5
    Ease of use
    5
    Value for money
    5
    Customer support
    5
    Functionality
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    Pros:
    Is very simply for the first configuration. The are a lot of possibility to protect The price is not hight and there are a possibility for business
    Cons:
    I'm waiting for the Firewall cloud the next solution for reduce cost and problem

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    MF

    Marco F.

    Verified reviewer

    Information Technology and Services

    2-10 employees

    Used monthly for more than 2 years

    Review source

    Reviewed March 2020

    Good Service

    4

    Ratings Breakdown

    3
    Ease of use
    5
    Functionality
    icon
    Pros:
    Integration with our networking devices
    Cons:
    Many customizatuon options and profilations

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    GC

    Gioavanni C.

    Verified reviewer

    Computer Networking

    2-10 employees

    Used daily for more than 2 years

    Review source

    Reviewed March 2020

    Flash Start great product

    5

    Ratings Breakdown

    5
    Ease of use
    5
    Value for money
    5
    Customer support
    5
    Functionality
    icon
    Pros:
    system efficiency, very simple to activate, is a product with several highly appreciated features
    Cons:
    there were no difficulties, it is a very linear system

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    GT

    Giuseppe T.

    Verified reviewer

    Information Technology and Services

    11-50 employees

    Used daily for more than 2 years

    Review source

    Reviewed March 2020

    Advanced content filters

    5

    Ratings Breakdown

    5
    Ease of use
    5
    Value for money
    5
    Customer support
    5
    Functionality
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    Pros:
    Very easy to use and powerfull. The categories of blacklist are anytime upgrade
    Cons:
    nothing, for my standard use is perfect.

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    RK

    Rudolf K.

    Verified reviewer

    Information Technology and Services

    2-10 employees

    Used daily for less than 12 months

    Review source

    Reviewed March 2020

    CIS Review

    5

    Exceptional. FlashStart is engaged and responsive. They are truly committed to providing a positive customer support experience.

    Ratings Breakdown

    5
    Ease of use
    5
    Value for money
    5
    Customer support
    5
    Functionality
    icon
    Pros:
    The dashboard is easy to use and navigate. The weekly reports are an ongoing reminder that we are being protected from malicious intent
    Cons:
    The software has been easy to use without frustration. We are get really pleased without a downside.

    Reasons for choosing Flashstart

    Ease of integration responsive and an engaged support team from FlashStart

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    PV

    Pier Fausto V.

    Verified reviewer

    Education Management

    201-500 employees

    Used daily for less than 12 months

    Review source

    Reviewed March 2020

    Flash start on home & school environment

    5

    Ratings Breakdown

    5
    Ease of use
    5
    Value for money
    5
    Customer support
    5
    Functionality
    icon
    Pros:
    I've tested the product for adoption fully in the near future. I think is very easy and powerful. The wizard configuration allow a good integration with the most popular routers. Some filtering options are efficient to protect the network against cyberbullying and dangerous malware.
    Cons:
    I think is missing nothing that I need.

    Reasons for switching to Flashstart

    To have more protection and more control.

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    MB

    Mark B.

    Verified reviewer

    Gambling & Casinos

    11-50 employees

    Used daily for less than 6 months

    Reviewed November 2022

    Easy!

    4

    Ratings Breakdown

    4
    Ease of use
    5
    Value for money
    5
    Customer support
    4
    Functionality
    icon
    Pros:
    Ease of use to to implement and start off securing your users.
    Cons:
    Some features for Linux eg, user management are still missing.

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    FB

    Fanus B.

    Verified reviewer

    Information Technology and Services

    2-10 employees

    Used daily for less than 6 months

    Review source

    Reviewed November 2020

    Using Flashstart for content and malware filtering

    5

    Very happy, so far so good. Product works, support readily available, very good pricing

    Ratings Breakdown

    5
    Ease of use
    5
    Value for money
    5
    Customer support
    4
    Functionality
    icon
    Pros:
    Support is top notch Pricing very competitive
    Cons:
    It is not bad thing, just the assigning of the licence process can be tad tedious if you assign 20 branches etc.

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    DS

    Darshil S.

    Verified reviewer

    Information Technology and Services

    501-1000 employees

    Used other for less than 6 months

    Review source

    Reviewed June 2021

    FlashStart - using DNS to control user access!

    4

    Ratings Breakdown

    5
    Ease of use
    5
    Value for money
    4
    Customer support
    3
    Functionality
    icon
    Pros:
    Completely cloud-based and using DNS to filter web traffic.
    Cons:
    Cloud-based, DNS based identification and filtering of URL and Web traffic

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