Pricing
Flat annual licenses for departments of every size. One number for the whole roster, payable by purchase order.
Patrol
Up to 10 sworn officers
About $20 per officer per month
- Full scenario library
- Officer dashboard and performance tracking
- Milestone certificates
- Pooled live practice minutes, sized for monthly compliance training (fair use)
Department
Up to 25 sworn officers
About $15 per officer per month
- Everything in Patrol
- Admin analytics
- Transcript export
- Priority email support
Agency
Up to 100 sworn officers
About $12.50 per officer per month
- Everything in Department
- Custom scenarios
- SSO path
Enterprise / Statewide
100+ sworn officers
- Multi-agency rollout
- Volume pricing
- CJIS-aware architecture
- Dedicated support
- On-prem option
Reserve units, academies, and multi-agency consortiums: contact us.
Department Pilot
See it work with your own officers before you commit.
- 30 days
- Up to 10 officers
- Full scenario library
- No card required
What de-escalation training actually costs per officer
Officer training time has a cost in every format. These are category descriptions, not vendor quotes; figures vary by agency.
Individual practice means the minutes an officer personally spends actively practicing, speaking in a scenario, not seat time in a classroom.
One-day in-person course
- Typical cost per officer per year
- Per-seat course fee, paid again every year
- Cost per minute of individual practice
- Roughly $10 to $40 or more
- Illustrative. One-day seat fees are commonly reported from the low hundreds; assuming 15 to 30 minutes of personal role-play, a $300 seat with 20 minutes of role-play works out to $15 per minute. Many lecture-format blocks include little or no personal role-play at all. These figures use the seat fee only; backfill and travel from the hidden-costs row would raise them further.
- Hidden costs
- Travel and per-diem, plus a full shift of overtime backfill to cover the street
- Practice frequency
- One day a year
Contracted live training engagement
- Typical cost per officer per year
- Instructor, actor, and facility fees for each engagement
- Cost per minute of individual practice
- Roughly $20 to $40 or more
- Illustrative. Multi-day instructor-led engagements commonly run several hundred dollars up to $800 or more per seat; divided by 15 to 30 minutes in which the officer personally speaks, that lands roughly $20 to $40 or more per minute. Engagements that give each officer more time on the floor land lower; large groups on a fixed fee land higher.
- Hidden costs
- Group scheduling, instructor time, and overtime or backfill for every officer attending
- Practice frequency
- Very few repetitions per officer per year
VR simulator program
- Typical cost per officer per year
- Hardware purchase plus software licensing
- Cost per minute of individual practice
- Not stated
- The cost here is dominated by hardware and dedicated space rather than by practice time, so a per-minute figure would misrepresent the category. Practice minutes are limited by access to the equipment.
- Hidden costs
- Dedicated equipment and space, and officers scheduled to the gear
- Practice frequency
- Limited by access to the equipment
CodeBlu
- Typical cost per officer per year
- $150 to $240 per officer per year, derived from the flat annual licenses above
- Cost per minute of individual practice
- About $0.28 to $0.44
- Illustrative usage: 4 to 5 ten-minute sessions a month, about 540 minutes a year, every minute of it individual practice, divided into the published $150 to $240 per officer per year.
- Hidden costs
- No travel, no actors, no group scheduling. Officer time on task is the remaining cost.
- Practice frequency
- Short on-shift reps, year-round
Licenses include a pooled minute allocation sized for up to about an hour of practice per officer per month across the department, with no per-officer caps.
How much practice is that in a year?
Published guidance on perishable skills such as crisis communication generally puts refresher doses in the single-digit hours per year, spread out rather than delivered in one block. CodeBlu's designed usage, the 4 to 5 short sessions a month above, comes to roughly 9 to 12 hours of individual practice per officer per year, taken on shift in pieces short enough to fit between calls.
The per-minute figures are illustrative category descriptions with the assumptions stated on each card, not vendor quotes and not an offer. Course fees, engagement fees, and the amount of personal role-play inside a block vary widely by agency, region, and format, so an agency running its own numbers may land outside these ranges. The CodeBlu figures derive from the published flat annual licenses on this page divided across a full roster, and they assume the illustrative usage described.
- Purchase orders and invoices accepted
- W-9 available
- Grant justification one-pager available on request
- Payable from POST training budget lines
Frequently asked questions
How does licensing work?
Each plan is a flat annual department license that covers up to the stated number of sworn officers, payable by purchase order or invoice. There is no per-officer monthly billing; the per-officer figures shown are simply the license divided across a full roster.
Does CodeBlu count toward POST in-service training hours?
De-escalation and crisis-intervention training are non-perishable topics that can count toward the discretionary 12 hours of the Rule 28 annual 24, and this training addresses the de-escalation requirement in C.R.S. 24-31-315. It is not perishable-skills credit, and CodeBlu does not submit to POST: the chief or sheriff, through the training officer, owns the credit decision and the POST entry. CodeBlu provides the performance tracking and transcripts to support that record and any credit application. Colorado's Rule 28 and C.R.S. 24-31-315 are the worked example; your state's POST-equivalent sets the analogous requirement, and your chief owns the credit decision.
What training methodology is CodeBlu based on?
CodeBlu is built on published research from the Force Science Institute and the broader public literature on crisis intervention and de-escalation training. The CodeBlu Method, including the C1-C8 competency framework and the Behavioral Read, is CodeBlu's own framework, developed specifically for AI-delivered voice practice.
Does the Force Science Institute or any other organization certify or endorse CodeBlu?
No. We build on established public research with appropriate attribution. No outside organization formally partners with, certifies, or endorses CodeBlu at this time. Updates will be posted here if that status changes.
Can we use our own scenarios?
Every plan includes the full scenario library. Custom scenario development is included starting at the Agency plan.
How does the pilot work?
The Department Pilot runs 30 days for up to 10 officers with the full scenario library, and no card is required. Start one from any plan, or contact us about a larger evaluation.
What is required for CJIS compliance?
CodeBlu does not process criminal justice information: training scenarios are fictional, and session transcripts and officer training records are not CJI. The FBI CJIS Security Policy's requirements therefore do not attach to the current product. No central body certifies vendors against the policy; compliance is validated through state CSA and agency agreements. If future capabilities involve agency records, we will address CJIS Security Policy alignment then. Request a quote to discuss your specific requirements.
Where is data stored?
Session data is stored in US-based Supabase infrastructure. Agency administrators control retention and export.