ZenBusiness Renews at $199. Texas Charges $15 to Move On.
Dependable registered agent service throughout Texas — $99 annually. That fee covers the office address, scanning of legal correspondence, and reminders for state filings.
Say the conflict out loud before anything else. TX Registered Agent.org sells Texas registered agent service for $99 a year, which puts us directly across the table from the company examined below. If you cancel ZenBusiness, we would like to be where you land. Every ZenBusiness figure on this page was taken from their own published pricing when we checked in July 2026, and we have shaded none of it in our direction.
Credit Where the Software Has Earned It
ZenBusiness writes good software. That is not a grudging aside dropped in to look fair, it is the honest reason a lot of owners hand them money. Filings, deadlines, documents and entity details live inside one dashboard that a first-time owner can operate without reading instructions, and the whole product behaves like something people cared about. If a compliance workspace is the thing you are shopping for, rather than one statutory service, that preference is defensible and nothing here is going to talk you out of it.
We are competing on different ground. One Texas address, one invoice a year, a portal that holds your documents, and nothing to learn.
Where the Price Splits Into Two Prices
Purchased on its own, with no formation order anywhere in the transaction, ZenBusiness opens registered agent service at $99 plus whatever the state charges. Year two onward, the invoice reads $199. Both numbers appear in their public pricing, and we found no misrepresentation of either one.
The question is not disclosure. It is which of the two numbers actually governs your spending. Texas insists on a named agent sitting on your entity record for the entire life of the company, which makes this a standing subscription rather than a purchase you complete. Subscriptions are described honestly by their renewal figure. The $99 is the introduction. The $199 is the relationship.
Measured against our flat rate, that is a hundred dollars of separation per year, indefinitely, for a role the state describes in the same few sentences no matter whose name occupies the field.
| Line item | Amount |
|---|---|
| Texas SOS, Form 401 agent change (LLC) | $15, once |
| ZenBusiness, standalone first year | $99 plus state fees |
| ZenBusiness, every year thereafter | $199 |
| TX Registered Agent.org, every year | $99 |
What Our Column Contains
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Order HereNinety-nine dollars in year one and ninety-nine in year seven, with no second tier waiting behind the first. A Texas street address of ours printed on your public filings where yours would otherwise sit. Whatever a process server hands over at that address goes into your portal before the working day is out, and an email alert goes with it. A reminder built around May 15, the one date a Texas LLC genuinely has to keep, when the Comptroller wants its franchise report and Public Information Report. And every document we have ever taken in for you, retrievable whenever you feel like looking.
We are not the cheapest agent in Texas and will not pretend to be. BetterLegal advertises $90 a year, nine dollars beneath us. What $99 is instead is a figure that never quietly becomes a different figure.
Switching From ZenBusiness to Us on the Texas Record
Texas handles this with a single form. It is Form 401 at the Secretary of State, the one-page filing that updates the registered office and the registered agent on your entity's record, and for an LLC the state's charge is $15. You may submit it through SOSDirect, the online filing system, or send the paper version by mail. ZenBusiness does not sign it, cannot slow it down, and has no role in the transaction at all.
What the form asks for is unremarkable. Your entity name, the file number issued when the company was registered, and whoever is taking over, paired with a Texas street address for the registered office. Enroll with us and those fields arrive already answered, together with the consent Texas requires the incoming agent to have given.
Sequence is the part worth getting right. Three verbs, in this order: consent, file, cancel. Our consent to serve exists from the moment you sign up, the form goes to the Secretary of State next, and the ZenBusiness subscription stays alive until you pull your entity record and see our name standing in the agent field. Reversing that order is how a company ends up with a blank on a record Texas expects to be occupied continuously. The full walkthrough is on our Texas change of agent page.
So the price of ending a $199 renewal for good is fifteen dollars and one form, filed once, by you, on whatever afternoon suits you.
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