We study a filtered Lie splitting scheme for the cubic nonlinear Schrödinger equation. We establish error estimates at low regularity by using discrete Bourgain spaces. This allows us to handle data in HsH^s with 0>s>10>s>1 overcoming the standard stability restriction to smooth Sobolev spaces with index s>1/2s>1/2 . More precisely, we prove convergence rates of order τs/2\tau ^{s/2} in L2L^2 at this level of regularity.