The Opening $99 Is Not the Price. The $199 Is.

Worth saying up front, because it should change how you read what follows: this page belongs to a competitor. Missouri Registered Agent.co provides agent service in this state for $99 annually and earns money if you move. What we will not do is put words in ZenBusiness's mouth. The prices quoted here were advertised by ZenBusiness themselves and recorded during a July 2026 review.

Their Product Is Genuinely Well Made

The ZenBusiness dashboard is the best in the category and we would rather say so than have you discover we skipped it. Everything sits in one place, the navigation makes sense the first time you see it, and somebody who has never dealt with a Secretary of State before can get oriented without a support ticket. That is real design work and it is worth money to the right buyer. Our answer is smaller on purpose. One Missouri seat, one annual charge, no software you have to learn.

Where the Two Numbers Part Ways

Purchase the agent line on its own, with no formation package wrapped around it, and the entry price is $99 plus state fees. Each renewal after that is $199. Nothing about that is hidden or misrepresented; both figures are on the page for anyone who scrolls. The problem is that only one of them describes your actual situation, because a registered agent is not a one-year purchase. Missouri requires the appointment for as long as the entity is on file, so the number you should be budgeting is the second one.

Set That Against the Whole Missouri Bill

Here is the comparison a national pricing page cannot make for you.

Missouri's LLC filing fees come out of the Secretary of State's published schedule, with statutory authority at RSMo 347.179. Forming through the state's business portal costs $50. Doing it on paper costs $105, which makes this one of the few states where going online saves you money instead of adding a surcharge. Changing your registered agent afterward costs $10. And there is no annual report for a Missouri LLC, no biennial one, no periodic registration, and no franchise tax, so the state collects nothing at all on a recurring basis.

Now line that up. Over a full decade, a Missouri LLC that forms online and switches agents twice pays the Secretary of State seventy dollars total. One ZenBusiness renewal is $199. The vendor line is nearly three times the state's entire lifetime charge, arriving every single year. In a state that asks this little of you, the agent fee is not one item in a compliance budget. It very nearly is the compliance budget, which is a good argument for looking hard at what it costs.

What We Do for the $99

• A Missouri registered office address that goes on your public filing so your home address does not.
• Documents scanned and delivered the day they arrive, with an email at the same time, because service of process starts a clock immediately.
• A portal holding everything we have ever received for you, open at any hour.
• Alerts whenever something lands that affects your entity.
• The same $99 next year, and the year after that. There is no renewal tier and never has been.

And the thing we are careful never to overstate: this is not the cheapest agent service in Missouri. BetterLegal lists $90 a year, nine dollars under us, and you should hear that here rather than discover it later. What holds up is that our $99 counts among the least expensive flat annual prices published in this state, and that it does not double at the twelve-month mark.

Replacing ZenBusiness as Your Missouri Registered Agent

Missouri handles it with one document, the change statement it numbers Corp. 59, covering the registered agent, the registered office, or both together. The filing goes to the Corporations Division inside the Missouri Secretary of State's office, and it costs ten dollars.

The condition to plan around is the signature. Either your successor signs the statement, or that agent's written consent gets attached to it, which means the new appointment has to be arranged before the paperwork can be finished. That ordering is exactly what protects you: ZenBusiness continues as your agent of record until the Corporations Division processes the filing, so coverage never breaks as long as you leave the cancellation for last. Our Missouri change of agent page walks the whole sequence.

Do it a few weeks ahead of your ZenBusiness renewal date rather than a few weeks behind it.

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