Updated October 6, 2026 · 8 services tested
We tested 8 registered agent services for Nevada. 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 Nevada 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.
Look past the first-year price column below. The renewal price is the number that actually applies once any opening-year discount runs out.
| 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 scans of legal and state mail • Business address stands in on filings • Free paperwork for an incoming agent switch | 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 (discounted first year with formation) | • Velo AI tracks upcoming compliance dates • Same-day mail scans to dashboard • Overnight delivery available for urgent items | 4.7 | See plan (opens in a new tab) |
| $99 first year, then $159/yrFor new customers | No | • Entity Manager stores documents without limit • Forms arrive pre-filled for next filing • Multi-year prepay holds the lower rate | 4.6 | See plan (opens in a new tab) |
 | $119 first year, then $119/yrIncluded in year one with its Entrepreneur and Complete LLC packages | No | • Immediate notice when documents arrive • Forwarding-address updates through online form • First three email forwards cost nothing | 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 | • Compliance Calendar tracks upcoming deadlines • Mail scanned straight into the account • No posted limit on cloud storage | 4.4 | See plan (opens in a new tab) |
 | $149 first year, then $149/yrFree first year with a Bizee LLC | Yes (free for a stretch with formation) | • Same-day dashboard alert for documents • Free the first stretch with formation • Handles paperwork for an incoming switch | 4.3 | See plan (opens in a new tab) |
 | $596 first year, then $596/yrBilled $149 a quarter | No | • Uploads typically post within hours • Dedicated address separate from business • Nationwide subscriptions available state by state | 4.2 | 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
Our test account with Northwest Registered Agent showed an active Registered Agent Service line right next to a formation order. Both sat on the same login.
That dashboard didn't hide the agent role behind a second portal or a separate password. It stayed on the same overview screen as everything else in the account.
Northwest Registered Agent's site says it files the switch-over paperwork when an existing LLC moves its agent to the company. The owner doesn't have to handle that step alone.
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Refund: 60 days
Our ZenBusiness test purchased LLC formation only, without activating its paid registered-agent service. Checkout offered the agent service separately, and its advertised first-year discount differs from a full fee waiver.
Inside the account, the Compliance tab keeps a Registered Agent tile next to separate tiles for amendments, annual reports, and trademarks. An "Appoint ZenBusiness" prompt still shows on that tile.
ZenBusiness's help center is clear about that address. It covers legal and state mail only, never a general business or shipping address.
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Our Harbor Compliance assessment covered direct Q&A and a pricing and signup-wizard walkthrough, without a paid registered-agent order.
The provider describes Entity Manager as a dashboard for tracking compliance across multiple states; we did not test live document delivery.
A business juggling agent duties in several states benefits most here, since one dashboard beats logging into a separate portal for each filing.
Locking in several years upfront only pays off for an owner sure they'll keep the same Nevada address that long. Anyone less certain pays the higher renewal rate sooner.
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Refund: 90 days
We tested MyCompanyWorks's signup flow directly, and its registered agent role never became part of a larger formation order. It's priced and sold on its own.
Behind the scenes, the role is fulfilled through Registered Agent Solutions, Inc., the Wolters Kluwer company that MyCompanyWorks names as its fulfillment partner on its site.
That setup favors a business that rarely hears from the state. A busier LLC could burn through the free email allowance before the year ends and start paying per document.
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Refund: 60 days
We tried to buy just the registered agent role from Rocket Lawyer and ran straight into a Plus or Pro membership requirement instead. No plain standalone version exists.
That membership pays off directly on the agent fee: a member pays roughly half of what a non-member is charged for the exact same service. We only reached the agent purchase screen after upgrading the account to Plus first.
Rocket Lawyer Corporate Services LLC, not the consumer-facing Rocket Lawyer brand, is the entity actually named on file when a customer buys the plan.
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Refund: 60 days
LegalZoom is a familiar name, but its own LLC formation cart never raised a registered agent option during our test checkout. We added the service separately, after the LLC order was already done.
The paperwork names the entity that holds the role on file as United States Corporation Agents, Inc., a LegalZoom subsidiary separate from the LegalZoom brand itself.
A Compliance Calendar inside the account flags upcoming deadlines by email. It stood out once the agent service was finally active.
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Refund: Before state payment
Our test LLC picked up Bizee's registered agent role at no extra charge simply by forming through Bizee itself, an opening stretch most rivals still bill for.
That waiver never required a side conversation or a separate cart, since it was already sitting inside the same order that filed the LLC. That included stretch eventually gives way to Bizee's regular renewal rate once it lapses.
Bizee's account materials describe a same-day text and email alert once a state document arrives, timestamped in the dashboard alongside the document itself.
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Refund: 60 days
Our order with Swyft Filings billed the registered agent role every quarter instead of the usual once-a-year charge.
That cadence adds up to a higher yearly total than most other names here charge for the same twelve months of coverage. Nothing on the order screen converts that per-quarter number into an annual figure automatically.
Once a legal document lands, it typically shows up in the secure online dashboard within two to three hours, faster than the vague same-day promises some rivals make.
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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 Nevada 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 leads this category by the widest margin here, a gap that shows up the moment a real question needs answering.
ZenBusiness trails it by the smallest margin. Harbor Compliance and MyCompanyWorks land in the next tier down, and Swyft Filings closes out the group at the bottom of this category.
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. MyCompanyWorks scores 4.7 in this category.
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.
Harbor's unrounded mean of 4.633/5 is higher than MyCompanyWorks at 4.567/5. That explains their order even though both cards display 4.6/5 after rounding.
Nevada charges its own LLC owners on two separate lines every year, covered above in the Quick Facts. The registered agent's renewal price sits on top of that state bill, not in place of it.
Naming yourself as agent puts your own name and street address on a public filing anyone can search, a trade a hired agent exists specifically to avoid.
No Nevada-based firm made this lineup, so all eight names above operate nationwide. Harbor Compliance's multi-state reach matters most for any owner whose business also registers to operate somewhere outside Nevada.
Standalone annual rates among these providers start at $119 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.
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.
Swyft Filings bills $149 or more per quarter, which totals at least $596 across twelve months.
This fee disappears entirely for an owner willing to serve as their own agent, provided a real Nevada street address stays on file and staffed during regular business hours.
A registered agent's fee has nothing to do with what Nevada itself charges an LLC through its Annual List and State Business License, since the two costs are billed separately and cover different things.
The cost of forming the LLC itself is a separate budget line entirely, covered on our best LLC services in Nevada page.
Skipping this paperwork entirely is an option too, since both Northwest Registered Agent and Bizee file it on a customer's behalf during a switch.
It is, with no exception, and the requirement stays in place for as long as the LLC remains registered with the state.
Weigh the renewal price once any opening discount ends, how quickly a provider scans documents, and whether that provider already handled your LLC's formation.
Yes, provided that owner holds a real Nevada street address and stays available there through normal business hours.
Receiving service of process and official state notices, then passing them along promptly. Tax filings and license renewals are someone else's job entirely.
MyCompanyWorks publishes the lowest flat rate at $119, Northwest Registered Agent renews at $125, Harbor Compliance follows at $149, and LegalZoom sits at $249 with no fixed renewal rate published.
The line is the client count: an agent representing 10 or more entities in the state must register as commercial, while anyone under that threshold stays noncommercial with no registration step required.
Every name on this page clears the bar Nevada actually sets for a registered agent. What separates them is document-scanning speed and whether the renewal price climbs after year one, plus how much extra work still falls back on the owner.
Northwest Registered Agent comes out ahead because the agent role is the whole business rather than a feature tacked onto something else the company sells.
Harbor Compliance is the pick for any owner whose business also registers to do business in another state.
Anyone watching every dollar at signup should weigh Bizee's included opening stretch against Northwest Registered Agent's own free first year. Neither name adds a separate charge for it at signup.
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.