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Registered agent annual fee vs annual report fee

Three charges get blended into one. Keep them apart and most letters stop making sense.

Agent fee

Paid to your registered agent for the year of service. Mainstay Filing: $149 alone, or inside the $199 package. Competitors range $34.99 to $596 in year one (read October 2026).

State report fee

Paid to the state: $7 to $500, or nothing where there is no LLC report. State fees are passed through at cost and shown before you pay.

Report-filing charge

What a provider adds to prepare and file the report for you. At Mainstay Filing it is inside the package. At Northwest Registered Agent it is $100 on top of the state fee, as its page reads October 20, 2026. The agent-only plan does not include the report: A registered agent alone, for a company that is already formed, is $149 a year. That plan does not include the annual report.

A letter that bundles all three into one number is selling the third.