The prices
No competitor in this market shows what year two costs next to what year one costs. We publish both, below.
What each path costs, first year and every year after
| What you pay for | Outside the US | In the US, not Texas | In Texas |
|---|---|---|---|
| Company, EIN and operating agreement | $599 | $599 | $599 |
| Registered agent | Included below | Included below | You — at no charge |
| US address | Included below | Not needed — you have one | Not needed — you have one |
| Today | $599 | $599 | $599 |
| Right after | $297 | $249 | Nothing |
| Every year after | $597 | $449 | $199, optional |
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- For a company you already have: mail scanning, $197 a year.
Why this is the price
- No free year, then a jump.
- Several services quote a lower number for the first year, then raise it once you’re a customer. The renewal price we tell you on day one is the price you actually pay.
- We actually file the paperwork.
- As part of the Registered Agent and Agent + Address renewal, Kingsgate actually files your Texas Public Information Report each year — not just a reminder that it’s due.
Not always the cheapest — check who actually files it
Start with “Files your annual report?”, not the price. One of the six providers below doesn’t offer that service at all — you’d have to file it yourself. Kingsgate includes it automatically, every year, in the ongoing price shown here.
We’re not always the cheapest to form the company, and several providers charge less a year to keep it running — this table says so plainly rather than hiding it. Three of the six also don’t offer a US mailing address as a service, at any price; Kingsgate includes that too.
| Provider | Files your annual report? | Formation (one-time) | Ongoing (per year) | Includes a US mailing address? |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Northwest | Not offered | $389 | $125/yr | Yes |
| Rocket Lawyer | Yes | $355 | $465/yr | Not offered |
| Kingsgate* | Yes | $599 | $597/yr | Yes |
| ZenBusiness | Yes | $500 | $398/yr | Not offered |
| Bizee | Yes | $350 | $596/yr | Yes |
| Swyft Filings | Yes | $320 | $696/yr | Yes |
| LegalZoom | Yes | $549 | $498/yr | Not offered |
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Formation is each provider’s one-time cost to form the company — state filing fee, EIN, and their own setup fee — worked out by taking their published full-package total and subtracting their own published standing annual rate (shown here as Ongoing). Ongoing is that standing annual rate for a registered agent, a US mailing address, and annual state filing, where offered — not a discounted first-year rate some providers advertise instead. Both draw on each provider’s own published pricing, checked August 2026; some figures are estimated where sources varied. Kingsgate’s own figures are its real checkout prices, the same ones shown throughout this page.
* Kingsgate’s own row: the $597/yr Ongoing figure above is the standing renewal rate, shown the same way as every provider in this table. Kingsgate’s actual first year is discounted — the registered agent and mailing address are $297 for year one, not $597 — so the real cost to start is $599 Formation + $297 first-year agent and address = $896, the same starting price shown throughout the rest of this page. The $597/yr rate applies from month 12 onward.