All 50 states + DC · last verified
Every state and DC requires an LLC or corporation to keep a registered agent at an in-state street address, staffed in business hours, with two exceptions. Pennsylvania asks for a registered office instead, and in New York the Secretary of State receives service, so an agent there is optional. Ours, through our partner Registered Agents Inc, is $74.25 a year in all of them. Pick your state for its rules and official portal.
$74.25 a year + $2.53 card processing fee at checkout: $76.78 due today.
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Pick it and what the state asks for next to the agent, our $74.25 a year price, and the official portal appear here.
Your state’s agent rule, yearly filing and official portal will show here.
Each page: what the state requires, who can serve, the official portal, and how the agent fits that state's compliance calendar. Doing business in a second state? That state wants its own agent once you register there as a foreign LLC.
No state matches that. Check the spelling, or clear the box and pick from the list.
The same four things in every state. A commercial agent is paid to do them every business day; a friend or your own front desk does them until the first trip out of town.
Allowed in general if you have an in-state street address and are reliably there. Free, but the address is public and a process server can arrive in front of customers.
Works until they move, change jobs, or sign for a summons and forget to mention it. The lawsuit does not pause because the agent was a favor.
A staffed office whose only job is to be there. Notices scanned the day they arrive, your home address off the registry, each state's calendar tracked. Ours, through our partner Registered Agents Inc, is $74.25 a year.
Not legal advice. Each state sets its own eligibility details; they are on the official portal linked from every state page. Wondering whether a letter is real? Free notice triage. For one state’s rules in full, see what Florida law requires of a registered agent on our Compliance Desk.
Choosing where to form is a different question from hiring the agent. Best state to form an LLC compares your home state with Delaware, Wyoming, and Nevada, including the second filing when you operate at home.
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$74.25 / yr+ $2.53 card processing fee at checkout, $76.78 due today
An in-state street address on file, every notice scanned to your dashboard and triaged by urgency, every state deadline tracked from day one.
Get a registered agent$41.25 service fee+ $1.55 card processing fee at checkout, $42.80 due today. The state’s filing fee is invoiced after.
Already have an agent who is slow, expensive, or gone? We prepare the change-of-agent filing, and the new agent takes over from the day it is accepted.
Change my agentFrom $123.75 + state fee+ card processing fee at checkout
Starting fresh? Form the LLC and add the agent in the same order, so the articles list a compliant address from the first filing. You own it outright: no subscription, no upsell.
Form my LLCEvery state except New York, in substance. The other 49 states and the District of Columbia require an LLC or corporation to keep a physical street address on file in that state where service of process and official mail can be delivered. Most call it a registered agent. Pennsylvania calls it a registered office, and a Commercial Registered Office Provider can be listed in its place. New York makes the Secretary of State the agent for service of process for every LLC and mails papers on to the address on file, so a registered agent there is optional.
One per state where the company is formed or registered as a foreign entity, with two exceptions: New York, where an agent is optional, and Pennsylvania, which asks for a registered office. Each of the others wants an agent with an address inside its own borders. Our price is the same in every state, so multi-state companies pay per state, not per surprise.
Alabama, Arizona, Missouri, New Mexico, Ohio, South Carolina ask LLCs for no yearly state report. The registered-agent requirement is separate and applies in all of them, every day the company exists.
The registered-agent requirements described are the ones every state shares. Annual-report names, fees and dates come from each state's own filing site. State-specific change-of-agent forms, fees and statutes are linked to the official portal, not reprinted.
No. Vermilion Vitez is a filing-services company, not a law firm. This is educational reference material (the last-verified date is at the top); confirm with the state or a professional before acting.
Last step
$74.25 a year per company (+ $2.53 card processing fee at checkout), notices in your dashboard the day they arrive, every state's calendar tracked for you.
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