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Lightspeed Filter 2026: Benefits, Features & Pricing

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Overview

Lightspeed Filter
Lightspeed Filter
4.6
(36)

Pricing

Pricing available upon request

About Lightspeed Filter

Lightspeed Filter is the best-in-class solution that protects students from harmful material to ensure their online safety. Our solution leverages human review by data scientists and machine learning to block inappropriate sites—including new and unknown ones—while still allowing access to critical educational materials. With 138 categories that differentiate sites such as adult gaming versus educational gaming, Lightspeed Filter is the most precise web filter on the market: this ensures comprehensive protection without over-blocking.

This tool also helps technology teams scale student safety with our cloud-based, device-level protections that work across all devices, operating systems, and learning environments. With Lightspeed Filter, enjoy end-to-end cloud-based filtering protection, simplified SSL decryption, fast and accurate roster syncing, and easy hardware-free setup.

**Fast and accurate roster syncing: Simultaneously sync any combination of student information systems
(SIS) and directory services to one centralized place with Lightspeed SmartSync technology.

**Flexible policy management: Quickly locate and manage group policies, reports, and more with quick
search fun...

ctionality, sophisticated hierarchical breadcrumb navigation, and granular group filtering with Lightspeed SmartPolicy technology. **The Most Precise Web Filter: With 138 categories that differentiate sites such as adult gaming versus educational gaming, Lightspeed Filter is the most precise web filter on the market ensuring comprehensiveness without over blocking, unlike other filters. **Adaptive AI Database: From 20 years of web crawling, Lightspeed has the most mature and complete K-12 database in the industry leveraging machine learning and human review by data scientists and to block inappropriate, new, and unknown sites and allow access to valuable educational materials. **Easy SSL Decryption: Provide multi-OS SSL decryption without the need to configure proxies, PACs, or trust certificates. Lightspeed SmartAgents put the power of a filter inside each device. **Granular YouTube Controls: SmartPlay takes control of YouTube. Allow educational videos and block inappropriate content, thumbnails and time-wasters—in just a click. **Dynamic Reports: Get high-level data on device use or detailed, granular reports on individual students. Lightspeed Systems® offers the most powerful, actionable, and shareable reports.

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Lightspeed Filter Pricing and Plans

Starting price: Pricing available upon request
Free Trial
Free Version

Basic

Pricing available upon request

No plan information available

    Lightspeed Filter Features

    • Popular features found in Network Security
      Anomaly/Malware Detection
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      Policy Management
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      Reporting/Analytics
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      Vulnerability Scanning
    • More features of Lightspeed Filter
      Access Controls/Permissions
      Activity Dashboard
      Activity Monitoring
      Activity Tracking
      Alerts/Notifications
      Customizable Reports
      Event Logs
      For Websites
      Real-Time Reporting
      SSL Security
      Threat Response

    Lightspeed Filter User Reviews

    Overall Rating

    4.6

    Ratings Breakdown

    5

    61%

    4

    39%

    3

    0%

    2

    0%

    1

    0%

    Secondary Ratings

    Ease of Use

    4.5

    Value for money

    4.6

    Customer support

    4.7

    Functionality

    4.4

    VR

    Verified
    Reviewer

    Religious Institutions

    11-50 employees

    Used weekly for less than 12 months

    Review source

    Reviewed August 2022

    Easy, Intuitive, and Effective Filtering Software

    5

    Overall, Lightspeed Filter has met our expectations, kept our students safe, and allowed us to monitor and direct their internet usage easily and effectively.

    Ratings Breakdown

    4
    Ease of use
    4
    Value for money
    4
    Functionality
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    Pros:
    The web backend of the product is well organized, and it is easy to add additional content/sites to black and white lists, assign different restrictions to different classes, and monitor potential in appropriate searches. We have also really appreciated the included filter sets; the default settings have worked for almost all of our classroom environments.
    Cons:
    The way that Lightspeed filter interfaces with Lighspeed Classroom Management, and other Lightspeed Products, is confusing, and a single portal that allows you to administer all the products simultaneously would be a significant improvement.

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    MP

    Manvel P.

    Verified reviewer

    Primary/ Secondary Education

    501-1000 employees

    Used daily for more than 2 years

    Reviewed July 2020

    Lightspeed Relay Review

    4

    Relay has stood up well filtering our student Chromebooks when on-site and off-site. This was especially true during the 2020 pandemic that forced the closure of our schools.

    Ratings Breakdown

    5
    Ease of use
    4
    Value for money
    4
    Customer support
    4
    Functionality
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    Pros:
    The most useful features of Relay that I use every day are the reports that I have automatically sent to my inbox every morning. From them, I can quickly check for inappropriate content and re-assign the category if needed.
    Cons:
    We had some difficulty initially with user name resolution with the complicated design we used. If simply deploying Relay "out-of-the-box" you should not run into the issues that we did.

    Reasons for choosing Lightspeed Filter

    Ease of use and setup.

    Reasons for switching to Lightspeed Filter

    We made the switch to Lightspeed many years ago when our previous content filter solution was no longer effective.

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    RJ

    Rick J.

    Verified reviewer

    Information Technology and Services

    51-200 employees

    Used daily for more than 2 years

    Review source

    Reviewed April 2022

    Web Filter

    5

    State mandates to use a filter soo no other real choice available

    Ratings Breakdown

    5
    Ease of use
    5
    Customer support
    3
    Functionality
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    Pros:
    Live alerts on web surfing activity for users
    Cons:
    Sometimes the filter is TOO restricted and must add to a list to allow access

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    SG

    Sarah G.

    Verified reviewer

    Education Management

    501-1000 employees

    Used daily for more than 2 years

    Review source

    Reviewed April 2022

    Great Management Product

    5

    Very good, used daily. Updated great and we really appreciated the new features that launched this year.

    Ratings Breakdown

    5
    Ease of use
    5
    Value for money
    5
    Customer support
    5
    Functionality
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    Pros:
    I enjoy the product integration options. We have multiple ways of getting our data into Lightspeed. I would appreciate a direct API, but our current system is just fine.
    Cons:
    I do not like that as Admin I have to go through about 10 steps to help our teachers to view classroom rule settings when offering support.

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    MS

    Marty S.

    Verified reviewer

    Education Management

    1001-5000 employees

    Used daily for more than 2 years

    Review source

    Reviewed May 2022

    Lightspeed Relay

    5

    Ratings Breakdown

    4
    Ease of use
    4
    Value for money
    5
    Customer support
    4
    Functionality
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    Pros:
    Lightspeed Relay is extremely easy to deploy and easy to manage. It provides great insight through the activity dashboard. Relay Classroom allows our teachers to easily manage their students and puts a lot of control in their hands.
    Cons:
    The smart agent for Windows has caused us some trouble in the past. This has gotten somewhat better, but is nowhere as good as the Chrome extension.

    Reasons for choosing Lightspeed Filter

    Ease of use Classroom capabilities

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    TF

    Tavis F.

    Verified reviewer

    Education Management

    51-200 employees

    Used daily for more than 2 years

    Review source

    Reviewed March 2022

    Great Filter and Excellent Student Safety Features

    4

    Overall, it is a very good product and works well in our K-12 environment.

    Ratings Breakdown

    3
    Ease of use
    4
    Value for money
    4
    Customer support
    4
    Functionality
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    Pros:
    The Safety Alerts for at risk searches and online behavior has been very helpful. It is nice that it integrates with the Google Administration Suite.
    Cons:
    The navigation between different user groups for setting permissions and restrictions is slow and not very intuitive.

    Reasons for choosing Lightspeed Filter

    Price as right and the available features were good.

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    BB

    Brock B.

    Verified reviewer

    Education Management

    51-200 employees

    Used daily for more than 2 years

    Review source

    Reviewed July 2022

    Lightspeed in k12 enviroments

    4

    Its a really great filter you can trust with some backend room to grow.

    Ratings Breakdown

    3
    Ease of use
    4
    Value for money
    5
    Customer support
    4
    Functionality
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    Pros:
    I like how easy it is to deploy to chrome devices for students and also the man-in-the-middle solution you offer for byod networks.
    Cons:
    The reporting isnt great when trying to determine background sites blocking specific content on your webpages. The way you have to do rules between google enviroment and ad enviroments isnt intuitive.

    Reasons for switching to Lightspeed Filter

    Lightspeed offered for tools on all fronts

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    MB

    Mike B.

    Verified reviewer

    Education Management

    51-200 employees

    Used daily for more than 2 years

    Review source

    Reviewed March 2022

    Lightspeed filter is a good filter to use in education

    4

    Overall they are a good company to work with and they provide a good services.

    Ratings Breakdown

    4
    Ease of use
    4
    Value for money
    4
    Customer support
    4
    Functionality
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    Pros:
    There are many features that are helpful for filtering staff and students. Great hybrid implementation for both on site and off site users.
    Cons:
    Some of the features are not user friendly.

    Reasons for switching to Lightspeed Filter

    They did not provide the kind of filtering we needed.

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    MM

    Maria M.

    Verified reviewer

    Education Management

    51-200 employees

    Used daily for more than 2 years

    Reviewed July 2020

    Easy to use

    4

    Overall we are very happy with the product. Relay support team is very supportive.

    Ratings Breakdown

    4
    Ease of use
    5
    Value for money
    5
    Customer support
    4
    Functionality
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    Pros:
    Relay was pretty seamless to set up on our managed Chromebooks. The only small complication we had is that we are also running the Relay Rocket on campus, so on-campus filtering had to be tweaked a bit. Parents LOVE that their childrens' school-owned devices are being filtered while at home.
    Cons:
    We really wanted to be able to use the DNS filter for BYOD on campus when we first implemented Relay, but it simply wasn't granular or customizable enough.I believe there is now a new feature in Relay Rocket that would allow us to do this.

    Reasons for choosing Lightspeed Filter

    We already had the Rocket and I was happy doing business with Lightspeed, and we were satisfied with the cost.

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    JP

    John P.

    Verified reviewer

    Education Management

    501-1000 employees

    Used daily for less than 12 months

    Review source

    Reviewed April 2022

    Great dashboard and tracking features

    4

    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.

    Ratings Breakdown

    4
    Ease of use
    4
    Value for money
    5
    Customer support
    4
    Functionality
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    Pros:
    The best features have been the activity tracking by user or device serial. We use this on a daily basis. Results are easy to export and distribute to those who need them.
    Cons:
    Some of the automated reporting links go to an invalid URL. Some of our users have hyphens or an apostrophe in their name and the reporting system cannot handle them.

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