What Cor Pathway 360 costs

We made the software free on purpose. If the price makes you suspicious, the reasoning behind giving the app away is worth reading before the rest of this page.

What you actually pay to run it

The licence is free. Running the software is not literally free, and anyone who tells you a self hosted system has zero cost of ownership is selling you something.

Here is the honest list.

Supabase is the only hard requirement. Everything else is a preference.

What the program build costs

The software holds a safety program. It does not write one. The build is where we write yours and map it to the audit.

The one time build. Priced by company size and by how much usable documentation you already have. A company with a current binder that needs restructuring and mapping is a different job from a company with three photocopied forms from a previous employer. We look at what exists before quoting.

Monthly maintenance, optional, two levels. Managed covers a single location with standard support: keeping documents current, adding forms, and handling changes as your work changes. Managed Plus is for more frequent changes, priority support, and multi location operations.

Firm pricing comes on a call, because a number quoted before seeing your documentation would be a guess, and a guess in either direction is useless to you.

If you are starting a carrier, budget for this differently. Alberta will not issue a Safety Fitness Certificate until you confirm you have written safety and maintenance programs. That puts the program build on the critical path to operating at all, alongside your insurance and your plates, rather than in the pile of things you deal with once the trucks are earning. Carriers who find this out late tend to find it out with equipment sitting in the yard.

What the alternatives cost

Eight of the vendors in this market do not publish a price. Four do. Below is what each one publishes, with the annual cost worked out for a 40 person field crew, because a monthly per seat rate hides the total and the total is what lands on your desk.

Source: vendor pricing pages and Capterra listings, checked the week of 27 July 2026. Certainty and BIS publish in US dollars and are shown in US dollars, unconverted.

On the eight "not published" rows. That figure is unavailable because the vendor requires a sales conversation before quoting. SiteDocs requires a contact form, and Capterra confirms there is no free trial. Salus requires a form plus a 30 minute walkthrough before any number is given, and argues on its own pricing page that a generic published tier can hide the real cost or push a buyer into paying around an arbitrary feature list. That is a reasonable position, honestly held, and it is the opposite of ours. We have picked the other side of it: our number is on this page and you did not have to talk to anybody to see it.

Two fair notes on the published prices. SafetyReports offers a free trial and a free version with no credit card. SafetyCulture has a genuine free tier, up to 10 users, 5 active templates, 3 years of data history and 30 days of analytics, plus a 30 day trial on any plan. If you have fewer than 10 people and light needs, look at that free tier honestly before you look at us.

Why per seat pricing is the wrong shape for a trades company

A seasonal crew is not a fixed number. You run 20 in February and 80 in July.

Per seat pricing means your compliance cost peaks in the same month your headcount and your risk peak. The most dangerous, busiest part of your year is the part where the safety system costs the most. That creates a quiet incentive that nobody puts in a proposal: leave the summer hands off the system, or share a login, or add them next month.

Every safety professional reading this has seen it happen.

Worth knowing when you compare: HSI Donesafe publishes that it prices on total worker headcount including all employees, not just administrators. Read any per seat quote carefully to find out which definition of "user" it uses, because the two produce very different invoices.

Removing the per seat cost removes the incentive. Add every worker, every subcontractor and every seasonal hand on their first day, because it costs nothing to do so.

Module toggles are not a paywall

Settings like transport_enabled and cor_enabled decide what appears in the navigation. That is all they do.

A plumbing contractor does not want to scroll past National Safety Code trip inspection screens, and a trucking company does not need confined space forms in the way. Turning a module off removes clutter. It does not remove something you have not paid for, because there is no tier you have not paid for.

Everything is available to everyone, on day one. Signing up creates your first Super Admin account and builds the company with four permission profiles, eight starter forms and five managed lists, and from there every capability in the system is switched on if you want it.

So what is the total, honestly

For a 40 person crew, in year one: $0 for the licence, the cost of a Supabase project and hosting which can be nothing at all on free tiers for a small operation, and one program build engagement quoted after we look at your documentation.

In year two, if you take monthly maintenance, that flat fee. If you do not, nothing, and the system keeps running.

Compare that with $11,520 a year for the cheapest published per seat option at that crew size, forever, on a system you cannot take with you.

In Alberta and British Columbia, part of the build cost may be offset by programs you already pay into. The published terms and the caveats are on the grants and premium incentives page.

Worth separating two different questions, because people arrive here with both. This page is what the software and a program build cost. What COR certification itself costs covers the audit fee, the certifying partner membership and the training, which you pay whoever builds your program.