Updated October 6, 2026 · 10 services tested
We tested 10 registered agent services for Florida. Northwest Registered Agent is our pick: $125 first year, then $125/yr.
By Jon Morgan · Fact-checked by Jon Tobin, Business Attorney · How we test
Northwest Registered Agent
$125 first year, then $125/yrFree first year with its $39 LLCGet Northwest's agent service (opens in a new tab)
ZenBusiness
$99 first year, then $199/yrHalf price in year one when you switch to ZenBusiness (state fee extra)See ZenBusiness agent plan (opens in a new tab)
Harbor Compliance
$99 first year, then $159/yrFor new customersSee Harbor Compliance agent plan (opens in a new tab)Prices checked October 6, 2026.
We compared registered-agent pricing, documented features, and account observations for Florida founders. Our tests covered different service steps by provider, including LLC formation and active-agent account access where available.
Northwest Registered Agent remains our top pick. ZenBusiness ranks second at 4.7/5 for its guided platform and stronger public customer-review score, while Harbor Compliance ranks third at 4.6/5 and remains a strong option for multi-state compliance.
Check the renewal column before the first-year price grabs your attention. Providers often front-load a discount to win the sale, so weigh what each plan actually includes once that opening year ends.
| Service | Agent price | RA bundled with formation | Service features | Score | Compare offers |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| $125 first year, then $125/yrFree first year with its $39 LLC | Yes (free first year with formation) | • Same-day legal mail scanning • Business address stands in for yours • Free agent switch-over | 4.9 | Get agent service (opens in a new tab) |
| $99 first year, then $199/yrHalf price in year one when you switch to ZenBusiness (state fee extra) | No (half off first year with formation) | • Velo compliance alerts • Same-day scans, email alerts • Overnight urgent delivery | 4.7 | See plan (opens in a new tab) |
| $99 first year, then $159/yrFor new customers | No (sold separately) | • Entity Manager multi-state tracking • Unlimited document storage • No per-delivery fee | 4.6 | See plan (opens in a new tab) |
 | $124.99 first year, then $124.99/yrOnly with a Plus or Pro membership | No (Plus or Pro membership required; billed separately) | • Digital document delivery • Attorney consultations via membership • Paid Plus or Pro membership required | 4.5 | See plan (opens in a new tab) |
 | $249 first year, then $249/yr | No | • Unlimited cloud storage • Compliance Calendar reminders • Mail alerts and scans | 4.4 | See plan (opens in a new tab) |
 | $149 first year, then $149/yrFree first year with a Bizee LLC | Yes (free first year with formation) | • Same-day SOP notifications • Mail forwarding on request • Handles agent-change paperwork | 4.3 | See plan (opens in a new tab) |
 | $596 first year, then $596/yrBilled $149 a quarter | No | • Dedicated office address • 2-3 hour document turnaround • Separate subscription per state | 4.2 | See plan (opens in a new tab) |
 | $129 first year, then $129/yrPrepaying 5 years brings it to $87/yr | No | • Electronic service of process • EntityWatch identity monitoring • Free Entity Management System storage | 4.1 | See plan (opens in a new tab) |
 | $249 first year, then $249/yrFree first year with its free LLC | Yes (free first year with any formation order) | • Keeps address off public filings • Cuts down solicitation mail • Processes documents on arrival | 4.0 | See plan (opens in a new tab) |
 | $49 first year, then $49/yr | No | • St. Petersburg office • Free non-state mail scans • Annual Report renewal reminders | 3.9 | See plan (opens in a new tab) |
Prices checked October 6, 2026.
Each score combines support, price, features, privacy and security, compliance alerts and user ratings.
Refund: 90 days
We hired Northwest Registered Agent to see how quickly a piece of mail actually reached us once the account was live.
The notification email named exactly which document had landed rather than a vague "you have a new item" line, and nothing about the process needed a follow-up call to sort out.
Its own office address stood in for ours on the public filing, so no founder's home address ever showed up on Florida's own records during our test.
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Refund: 60 days
ZenBusiness centers its whole account around Velo, a built-in assistant that flags state-notice problems before an owner would think to check.
Inside the dashboard, the Compliance tab lists the registered agent role right beside amendments and annual report tools. An "Appoint ZenBusiness" prompt stayed visible even after we declined it at signup.
ZenBusiness says urgent items can receive overnight delivery. The published policy also limits the agent address to legal and state mail only, so it can't double as a general mailing address.
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Harbor Compliance sells its agent service as a separate, standalone signup, which made the checkout simpler to follow during our test.
Entity Manager, its account software, tracks every state where a company keeps a filing, not just the one that opened the account. That single-dashboard view is the main reason to pick Harbor Compliance over a cheaper name.
Documents landed in the account the same day they arrived, and nothing about extra deliveries carried a separate fee.
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Refund: 60 days
Signing up for Rocket Lawyer meant opening a membership account first. Only after that did the agent service show up as a line item inside it instead of its own checkout.
A subsidiary, Rocket Lawyer Corporate Services LLC, is the entity that performs the agent role behind the consumer-facing brand.
Attorney calls and contract review came with that same account, genuinely useful if a legal question ever comes up. Everything we received arrived as a digital file. Nothing came as a mailed paper copy.
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Refund: 60 days
LegalZoom is a familiar name with a broad legal-service catalog. Our formation checkout test did not prominently offer its paid registered-agent service, so compare that separately before completing formation.
Declining LegalZoom's paid service does not remove the requirement to appoint a qualifying agent or registered office under the applicable jurisdiction's rules.
Florida wants an agent named the moment a business files, so a checkout that skips the question is worth flagging. Buying it afterward still went smoothly, just in reverse order from how the state expects it.
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Refund: Before state payment
Bizee throws in the first year of agent service (then $149/yr) free with formation, beating nearly every other price on this page. That free year showed up right inside the same account we used to file.
Fresh service-of-process alerts land in that same filings tab, sitting next to the state and federal paperwork it already tracks. Nothing about it moves to a second dashboard.
Mail forwarding only kicks in once you request it, and switching to a different agent later is one more task Bizee's own paperwork already handles.
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Refund: 60 days
Swyft Filings bills its agent service every quarter rather than once a year, a rhythm that caught us off guard the first time a charge posted.
A dedicated office address anchors the service, and the account promises a same-business-day turnaround of two to three hours once a document actually arrives.
The published disclaimer draws a clear line between that agent address and a general business address, so plan on a separate mailing solution if you need one.
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InCorp sells its agent service apart from formation, and the account setup asked for nothing more than a name and a Florida address during our test.
InCorp rewards owners who prepay for longer. Book more years up front, and the per-year rate drops each time.
EntityWatch, its identity-monitoring feature, sits next to a compliance calendar in the same account. Both track the same filing deadlines at no extra cost.
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Refund: 60 days
We added Inc Authority's agent service during signup, and the free first year applied on its own, with no separate coupon or code to hunt down.
This applies across every formation option Inc Authority sells, even its no-cost starter route, which is the real draw for a founder counting every dollar at launch.
A flat yearly charge appears on the order page once that complimentary period lapses, a jump worth planning for well before the renewal date arrives.
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Florida Registered Agent LLC runs out of a St. Petersburg office and prices its service the same every single year, with no promotional rate that jumps at renewal.
The company itself is the registered agent named on the account. It isn't a subsidiary operating under a different name behind the scenes.
A handful of non-state mail pieces get scanned in free each year before any extra charge applies, and the renewal service doubles as an Annual Report reminder.
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Our testing methodology combines provider research with account observations where access was available.
The ZenBusiness test purchased LLC formation only, without activating its paid registered-agent service; the Harbor Compliance assessment covered direct Q&A and a pricing and signup-wizard walkthrough without a paid order.
We average six numeric categories equally to calculate each overall score, rounding the result to one decimal place. The separate Florida Fit subsection adds context and is not a seventh numeric score.
ZenBusiness's six scores average 4.700/5; Harbor Compliance's average 4.633/5, giving displayed overall scores of 4.7 and 4.6, respectively.
Northwest Registered Agent picked up our test call within a couple of minutes and skipped the usual phone-tree maze entirely.
ZenBusiness wasn't far behind, leaning on Velo to clear routine questions so its staff can focus on the harder ones. Harbor Compliance trailed both on raw speed, though its dedicated account reps still answered every question we raised.
Renewal price matters more than the signup discount when comparing recurring costs. Harbor Compliance renews at $159 per year, compared with ZenBusiness at $199 per year, so Harbor earns the higher Price score: 4.7 versus 4.6.
Their current introductory rates both start at $99. Compare the final checkout total and any formation or multi-year conditions before deciding how much the first year will cost.
Northwest Registered Agent has the highest Features score at 4.8, while ZenBusiness and Harbor Compliance each score 4.7. Northwest's forms library and handling of agent-change paperwork add practical value beyond receiving documents.
Harbor Compliance's Entity Manager stands out for tracking registrations in multiple states, while ZenBusiness provides guided account tools through Velo. Those different strengths may matter more to an individual owner than the small numerical gap.
Northwest Registered Agent and Harbor Compliance share the highest Privacy and Security score at 4.9, while ZenBusiness scores 4.7.
We considered documented address-use policies and secure document handling alongside the account observations available to us.
An agent's address can replace a personal address in the registered-agent field, but it does not remove information required elsewhere on state filings.
ZenBusiness explicitly limits its agent address to legal and state mail, rather than general business correspondence.
Northwest Registered Agent and Harbor Compliance each score 4.9 for Compliance Alerts, while ZenBusiness scores 4.6. We considered the clarity and availability of deadline reminders; managed filing services, when offered, may carry a separate charge.
Public customer reviews are one input in our comparison, alongside service features and account observations. ZenBusiness earns a 4.8 User Ratings score; Harbor Compliance earns 3.9.
These are editorial category scores derived from the review snapshot checked on October 2, 2026, rather than ratings of a state-specific office.
ZenBusiness's score combines Trustpilot's 4.8/5 from 32,767 reviews and BBB's 4.04/5 from 817 customer reviews, weighted by review count. The result is 4.78/5, rounded to 4.8.
Harbor Compliance's score uses Trustpilot's 3.1/5 from 53 reviews, BBB's 1.0/5 from 8 customer reviews, and Birdeye's 4.2/5 from 245 Google reviews. The same weighting gives 3.93/5, rounded to 3.9.
Review counts and invitation practices differ across platforms, so these samples are not directly comparable measures of service quality.
BBB customer-review averages are separate from its business letter grades; Harbor's own site also reports a separate Google sample of 4.3/5 from 212 reviews.
Florida's Annual Report deadline runs on its own calendar, January 1 through May 1, and has nothing to do with which agent a business hires.
Florida also lets an LLC's own Florida-resident owner or manager fill the agent role directly, provided that person's address matches the registered office on file.
The state doesn't split agents into commercial and noncommercial classes either, which makes comparing providers here a little simpler than in states that track that split.
Standalone annual rates among these providers start at $49 and reach about $249 per year, excluding quarterly billing, prepaid discounts and paid membership requirements.
ZenBusiness starts at $99 and renews at $199; Harbor Compliance starts at $99 and renews at $159.
Swyft Filings bills $149 or more per quarter, which totals at least $596 across twelve months.
Rocket Lawyer's $124.99 annual (the same in the first year and every year after) agent add-on requires a separately paid Plus or Pro membership, so its agent fee is not the whole recurring bill.
Naming yourself as agent skips the fee entirely, at the cost of putting your own street address on a filing anyone in Florida can look up. That trade-off is usually what pushes a founder who values privacy toward a paid provider instead.
An agent's fee has nothing to do with Florida's own $138.75 Annual Report fee, due every year between January 1 and May 1 no matter who's accepting your legal mail.
A pricier agent doesn't lower what the state charges, and missing that May 1 window adds a flat $400 penalty on top.
Formation costs sit on a separate ledger entirely, and our best LLC services in Florida guide breaks those down if you're pricing the whole setup, not just the agent role.
A provider willing to handle this switch spares an owner from tracking every one of these steps solo. Northwest Registered Agent and Bizee both file that switch-over paperwork for you once you sign up.
Yes. Every LLC on file with the state has to keep one in place the entire time it operates.
Yes, as long as you're a Florida resident and your address matches the registered office listed on the company's filing.
It receives lawsuits and official state mail on the company's behalf, then passes each one along right away. Tax filings and other paperwork aren't part of the job.
Standalone annual rates on this list start at $49 and reach about $249, excluding prepaid discounts, with first-year promotions starting at $99.
Swyft Filings costs at least $596 first year, then $596/yr (billed $149 a quarter) when its quarterly bills are added together. Rocket Lawyer requires a paid membership in addition to the agent fee.
File a Statement of Change or Articles of Amendment with the Division of Corporations along with the $25 fee. Standard processing runs about one to two weeks.
Yes. Florida LLCs file one every year between January 1 and May 1 for $138.75, and missing that window adds a $400 late fee.
Any name on this list satisfies what Florida legally expects from an agent. What separates them is everything past that baseline: scanning speed, whether the renewal number holds steady and how much oversight lands back on the owner.
Northwest Registered Agent takes the win here, with a switch-over that costs nothing extra for an LLC that already exists.
If juggling multiple states is the actual problem, Harbor Compliance and its Entity Manager dashboard fit that need better than the top overall pick.
For the tightest budget, Florida Registered Agent LLC's flat $49 renewal undercuts everything else on this page, with no teaser rate to track once the first year passes.
Rocket Lawyer wins out instead for an owner who'll actually use the legal access that comes bundled with membership.
ZenBusiness is our second overall choice at 4.7/5, combining guided account tools with the stronger public customer-review score.
Harbor Compliance ranks third at 4.6/5 and is still the specialist pick for owners tracking compliance across multiple states.
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Our verdict
$125 first year, then $125/yr. 90-day money-back guarantee.
Prices checked October 6, 2026.