Free for Twelve Months, Then a Number You Cannot Look Up

We sell against the company named above: Connecticut Registered Agent.co offers the competing appointment at $99 annually. The argument that follows rests on an absence you can verify on Inc Authority's own site rather than on anything we assert.

Twelve Months at Zero, With No Catch We Could Find

Bought with an Inc Authority formation package, registered agent service is included at no cost for the first year. We specifically looked for the offsetting mechanism such offers usually carry, a setup charge, a truncated term, a penalty for cancelling early, and none of it appeared. A year of a mandatory service at zero dollars is a genuine benefit to a founder watching an opening balance, and it deserves to be counted as one.

The Number That Never Appears

What happens in month thirteen is not disclosed. The frequently asked questions do not carry the renewal rate; neither do the premium package pages, nor the homepage, nor the terms. The likeliest explanation is that the figure gets quoted at checkout or over the telephone, once the free year has already done its work.

Two consequences follow without our needing to speculate about the amount.

Registered agent service is a subscription by nature. Connecticut insists on a named agent throughout the entity's existence, so the renewal is not an afterthought to the transaction. It is the transaction.

And the timing of the disclosure is not neutral. At the point of purchase a buyer holds maximum commitment and minimum information. A year later there is a document history, a public record listing the vendor's address, and a change filing standing between you and anybody else. That asymmetry is neither unlawful nor rare. It is simply undone by asking for the renewal price in writing before you order.

We are not going to guess at the figure. Publishing an invented competitor price would destroy the only claim this page makes.

Disclosure as a Product Feature

Ours is $99 in year one and $99 in every year afterwards, printed on the pricing page and legible to anyone who has not spent a cent yet. Same-day imaging of legal process sits in the base rate. Our Connecticut street address goes on your public filing in place of yours. Compliance reminders are included. Nothing sits above the plan to be upsold into.

One number we will publish against ourselves: BetterLegal quotes $90. Our $99 belongs among the lowest published Connecticut rates, a smaller claim than cheapest and a true one.

If the Renewal Sends You Elsewhere, Connecticut Charges $50

The exit runs on form BUS-09, this state's Change of Agent filing: fifty dollars, lodged with the Secretary of the State by post or through the portal, and valid only once your incoming agent has signed the acceptance. Because that signature is required, the replacement gets engaged before the filing goes in and the previous account is closed once the register reflects the swap, so nothing lapses in between. One trap to avoid: the annual report will not carry an agent change, and the reason is that same acceptance signature, so budget for a separate filing. A fuller account sits on our change of agent page.

Order Here What each competitor charges, where they disclose it, is on the rankings page.