LegalZoom Wants $249. Missouri Wants Ten Dollars and a Signature.

Before anything else: you are reading a sales page. Missouri Registered Agent.co holds Missouri agent appointments at $99 a year, and a reader who switches away from LegalZoom is a reader who pays us. We have kept the vendor facts clean anyway. The $249 figure below is LegalZoom's own published price, checked in July 2026, reproduced without commentary attached to the number itself.

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Give LegalZoom its due. It is the name people already know, which solves a genuine problem for a first-time buyer. Sorting trustworthy filing companies from the ones that disappear after two seasons is hard work if you have never had reason to learn the landscape, and picking the brand everyone recognizes is a reasonable shortcut. There is real comfort in knowing the company will still be answering the phone in a decade. If that comfort is what you are buying, buy it deliberately and with your eyes open about the cost.

$249, Flat, Renewing on Its Own

Registered agent service at LegalZoom runs $249 a year. It renews automatically, and our July 2026 look found no introductory rate anywhere in the purchase path, so year one and year six are the same charge. Set against a flat $99, that is a $150 annual difference and a $1,500 difference over a decade, both of which are simple subtraction against their published figure.

The Detail Most National Pages Miss About Missouri

Here is something a fifty-state pricing page cannot account for. In Missouri, the amount of work behind an agent appointment depends entirely on what kind of entity you formed, and LegalZoom charges the same $249 either way.

Run a Missouri corporation and there is genuine annual paperwork: a registration report due in your incorporation anniversary month, listing your officers, directors, registered agent, and Missouri registered office, filed electronically for $15 or on paper for more. That is a real recurring obligation, and a full-service provider could reasonably charge for keeping it on schedule.

Run a Missouri LLC and there is nothing. Chapter 347 of the Revised Statutes, which is the entire law governing limited liability companies in this state, never created a periodic report. No annual filing, no biennial filing, no registration report, no franchise tax to the Secretary of State. The reporting duty everyone associates with Missouri lives in the corporation statutes and stops there.

So two Missouri businesses on the same $249 plan receive meaningfully different amounts of service, and only one of them has any filing for the money to cover. If yours is the LLC, the $249 buys a Missouri street address, a person on hand through business hours, and documents moved along promptly. That is the list, and it does not lengthen because the invoice did.

Our Terms, Written Plainly

Ninety-nine dollars covers a year of Missouri registered agent service, and the renewal notice carries the identical number. Anything served on us at the registered office is scanned and delivered to you the day it arrives, not the following week, because response deadlines start running on delivery. Your filings show our Missouri street address rather than your kitchen table. Everything we receive stays available in your portal. One optional charge exists in the whole arrangement, fifteen dollars for scanning a piece of everyday business mail, disclosed here rather than discovered on a later statement.

One correction to any impression of cheapest. BetterLegal publishes $90 a year, which is under our number, and a page this concerned with published pricing has to acknowledge the one that beats it. The honest version of our claim is that $99 is among the lowest flat annual prices in Missouri, and that it is $150 a year under the best-known name in the business for identical statutory duties.

The Missouri Paperwork That Retires a LegalZoom Appointment

One filing ends it. Missouri's change statement carries the catalogue number Corp. 59, and a single version of it serves limited liability companies, for-profit corporations, and nonprofits, which is why the abbreviation at the front of the number misleads people. It can reassign the agent, relocate the registered office, or accomplish both in one pass. Completed statements are addressed to the Missouri Secretary of State's Corporations Division, and the fee is ten dollars.

What the form wants is short. Your entity name as it appears on the state's records, whoever is stepping in, and the Missouri registered office address, which has to be a genuine street address here. A post office box qualifies only when it rides alongside that street address, never on its own.

Then the instruction that governs your calendar: the new agent must sign the statement, or written consent to the appointment must be attached. That rule exists so nobody is enrolled into the job without agreeing to it, and it has a useful side effect for you. Because the successor's signature is required, the successor has to exist first, which makes the correct order impossible to get wrong once you know it. Engage the new agent, file the statement with the ten dollars, wait for the Corporations Division to post the updated record, then close the LegalZoom account. Cancelling first would leave your public record pointing at a provider you no longer pay, and the auto-renewal is not the thing you want to be racing. Our change of agent walkthrough covers filing routes and what confirmation looks like.

One more instruction worth knowing before you plan: your own company cannot take the seat. Missouri restricts the role to a qualifying individual resident or an authorized corporation, so the replacement has to be somebody else.

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