How LLC Review Desk scores filing services

1. Three-year cost (29%). The first-year price plus two renewals, as each company publishes its service prices. The state charges the same fees whoever files, so those sit apart from the score.
2. Filings in the price (29%). Which recurring jobs the price covers: the registered agent, the annual report, the EIN application and registrations in additional states.
3. Renewal price (12%). Whether the yearly price is the same after year one and how simple renewing or leaving is.
4. State fit (16%). How well the offer matches the state's reporting schedule, late charges and agent rules.
5. Up-front totals (14%). Whether the whole amount is shown before payment, with state fees passed through at cost.

When two scores are within a few tenths, the desk calls the pair even and names the criterion that decided the order.

Scores are the desk's own editorial marks out of 10 from the rubric above. They are not customer ratings. A score is for one company in one state for one service, so the same company can score differently from page to page.

We pull each company's prices from its own pricing and service pages when the site is built, and every page shows the date. State fees, forms, deadlines and agent rules come from official state schedules, forms and statutes, each listed with the month we last confirmed it. A few checkouts add a card or processing surcharge when you pay the state fee. Our totals show the service price only, so that surcharge never appears in them.

Every state list has Mainstay Filing, which works in all fifty states, plus the registered agent services built around that state. A company only makes a list for a service its own pages sell at a posted price.

We don't show customer ratings or customer quotes, and nothing on this site is legal or tax advice. The order is our own editorial call, based on the criteria above.