LegalZoom Asks $249 a Year. Vermont Charges $200 to Create a Company and Keep It.

A disclosure that belongs at the top rather than in a footer: VT Registered Agent.org competes directly with LegalZoom for Vermont agent appointments, we charge $99 a year for ours, and this page exists because we would like yours. Nothing attributed to LegalZoom below comes from anywhere except LegalZoom's own published material, read during a July 2026 review. Treat our advocacy as advocacy and the prices as prices.

The Brand Is Not a Trick

No name in American consumer legal services carries more recognition than LegalZoom's, and recognition is worth something real. A person who has never formed a company before, who is nervous about doing it wrong, and who wants the reassurance of a household name is not being irrational. They are buying confidence, which is a legitimate purchase, and occasionally the right one.

We would rather be judged on the thing itself than on the name attached to it, so the rest of this page is about the thing itself.

$249, Flat, and It Renews Itself

The number is stated plainly, which we credit. Registered agent service is priced at $249 annually. Renewal happens on its own. Our July 2026 read of the published pages found no opening-term discount attached anywhere, so there is no teaser rate here and no expiry date waiting to surprise anybody. The price is $249 and the charge repeats without asking.

Automatic renewal is the piece that deserves a moment. Convenience is the whole point of it, and the convenience holds until the year you intended to leave, because continuation is the default and remembering is entirely your job.

Set the Figure Beside What Vermont Itself Charges

Vermont publishes what it costs to bring a limited liability company into existence and what it costs to keep one alive. The Articles of Organization are $155. The recurring annual report is $45. Two hundred dollars, then, covers the state's entire part in creating your company and carrying it through a full year of good standing.

LegalZoom wants $249 for the agent line alone.

That comparison is not rhetoric. It is subtraction. A single year of one vendor's agent service costs forty-nine dollars more than the state charges for the birth of the company plus its first full year on the register, and unlike formation, the agent charge arrives again every twelve months. Over a decade the LegalZoom appointment comes to $2,490 while ours comes to $990, a difference of $1,500 for an obligation both services discharge identically.

What Our Ninety-Nine Dollars Actually Delivers

Your public filing carries a Vermont address belonging to us rather than one belonging to you. Anything served at it is scanned and pushed out to you within the same working day, because the clock on a legal response starts at service and not at discovery. Your portal keeps the full history, permanently. Deadline prompts go out ahead of the Vermont report window. The rate is $99 in year one, and $99 is also what the renewal notice says, because we never wrote an introductory price that would later need replacing.

This is not the least expensive option available and we are not going to imply otherwise. BetterLegal's published rate is $90, under ours by nine dollars. The defensible statement is that our $99 ranks with the lowest flat annual prices published in Vermont, not beneath all of them.

How a Vermont LLC Walks Away From LegalZoom

One filing does it. Vermont calls it a Statement of Change, the Business Services Division records it, and the fee is $35. Everything happens inside the Secretary of State's Online Business Service Center; bizfilings.vermont.gov is the address, no alternative route exists, and consequently no numbered paper form exists either. You name the entity, the outgoing agent, and the incoming one with a Vermont street address. LegalZoom is informed by the state's records rather than consulted, and has no standing to delay any of it.

The order of operations matters here more than it does with most vendors, precisely because of the automatic renewal. Sign up with us first. File the change. Refresh the state's business search until our name is showing on the agent line. Only then cancel LegalZoom, and cancel it deliberately rather than by letting a card expire, since a lapsed payment does not remove anybody from a Vermont public record. Your entity is expected to have a functioning agent every single day it exists, and a few overlapping weeks of double coverage costs far less than a summons delivered to a service you thought you had left.

Our change of agent page sets out each step in order, and customers are handed the precise entries during onboarding.

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