North Dakota Charged $135 Once. ZenBusiness Charges $199 Annually.

North Dakota Registered Agent.co competes directly with the company reviewed here and charges $99 a year for the same appointment. That is our interest, stated before the argument rather than after it. The ZenBusiness figures belong to ZenBusiness, logged during a July 2026 pricing check and reproduced as found.

Credit Where It Belongs: The Software

ZenBusiness has the best interface in this business. Clean signup, a sensible dashboard, compliance dates presented where a non-specialist will actually notice them. Nobody comparing agent providers should pretend that counts for nothing.

Our product is narrower and priced accordingly. One address in this state, one scanning desk, one number.

The Two Numbers

Bought standalone, the ZenBusiness agent line opens at $99 plus whatever the state charges. It renews at $199.

Renewal is the figure that describes your future. North Dakota keeps asking for a named agent every year the entity stays on the register, so the introductory rate applies to one twelfth of a twelve-year relationship.

Ten years on the register means one payment at the opening rate and nine at the standing one. That comes to $1,890. A decade with us comes to $990.

What "Plus State Fees" Means Once You Name the State

The opening price is quoted as $99 plus state fees, which is honest phrasing but stays vague until a state is attached to it. In North Dakota the fees capable of attaching are short and knowable: ten dollars if a statement of change has to go in to install the new agent, one hundred thirty-five if the company is being formed at the same moment, fifty each autumn afterward for the report. None of those belong to a vendor. They reach the Secretary of State whichever provider you hire, which leaves the service fee itself as the only figure genuinely available for comparison.

Set It Against What North Dakota Charged You

North Dakota charged $135 to bring your limited liability company into legal existence, a fee set at § 10-32.1-92(1). One ZenBusiness renewal exceeds that by $64, and unlike the $135 it returns every twelve months. Four renewals cost about what six companies would cost to form.

Before that reads as a cheapest-in-state boast: BetterLegal publishes $90 a year, which is below our figure. The lowest advertised North Dakota rate belongs to them, not to us. Ours sits close behind theirs, and it does not change shape at renewal.

What Sits Behind Our $99

• A compliant North Dakota business address on your state record
• Documents scanned and emailed the day they arrive
• Alerts ahead of the November 15 report and its $50 state fee
• Dashboard access at any hour
• Your own address kept off the public file

Removing ZenBusiness From the Record

Filing happens where all North Dakota business records live, inside the Secretary of State's FirstStop system, and the state takes $10 for it. The document is a statement of change. No form number exists for it, since North Dakota issues none for business filings. Acceptance is the moment of effect, and no member or governor has to approve it beforehand.

The appointment does not lapse and cannot be allowed to. Sign with us, enter our details in the statement, watch the record flip to our name, and close the ZenBusiness renewal after that. Our change of agent page lists each step.

Ten Dollars Decides It

A $199 renewal is a bet that switching costs more in effort than it saves in money. North Dakota settled the effort question with a ten-dollar filing inside a portal your company already uses for everything else it files. Read the bet with that in hand.

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Every North Dakota rate we track is in the price log.