Texas Prints Its Surcharge to the Penny. Your Bundle Expiry Is Harder to Find.

Ownership of this page, stated at the top: Texas Registered Agent.ai wrote it, we charge $99 a year for the service under discussion, and we would like the appointment. Bizee's numbers come straight off their own published pages, noted in July 2026.

Those Free Months Are Real

Bizee, formerly Incfile, includes the agent role inside its formation packages without charge, for a stretch that lasts three months at the short end and twelve at the long one, decided by the package you bought. There is nothing wrong with that offer. If Bizee is filing your Texas certificate of formation anyway, those months are money you never spent, and treating a real giveaway as a trick would be dishonest.

Their formation work is decent too. Short interview, quick turnaround, and a price that has kept them near the front of the category for a long time.

Then the Bundle Ends and $149 Begins

Standalone agent service from Bizee bills $149 a year once the included window closes. Published, undisguised, and unremarkable as a rate.

The problem is the date rather than the amount. Three months and twelve months are wildly different expiry points, which one applies depends on the package you chose at checkout months ago, and the defining quality of a free service is that it stops occupying your attention. Whatever you have stopped tracking is exactly what renews without a conversation.

Finding your own expiry date takes about two minutes inside your Bizee account. Doing it today rather than in month eleven is the entire practical advice in this section.

A Small Digression on Texas and Decimal Points

There is a habit in how this state prices things that is worth noticing while you shop.

Texas charges $15 to change the registered agent on an LLC. It also tells you, in the instructions printed on the change form itself, that paying by credit card adds a statutorily authorized convenience fee of 2.7 percent. Which means the state has effectively published two prices for the same transaction: $15 if you send a check, $15.41 if you use a card.

Forty-one cents. Disclosed in advance, in the official instructions, before anybody has committed to anything. An agency that will not round off four-tenths of a dollar is setting a standard the private side of this market does not always meet, and it is a fair yardstick to hold a vendor against. Bizee does publish $149. What Bizee does not publish, at least not anywhere you will trip over it, is the day that number starts applying to you.

The $99 Column, In Full

• A registered office in Texas that belongs to us, shown on your filings rather than your home or office
• Anything served on you scanned into the portal before the business day ends, with an email alert
• Written consent to serve, issued at enrollment, which is the precondition Texas attaches to any agent designation
• A reminder before May 15, the annual Comptroller date for both required reports
• Every document we have handled for you, in a portal, permanently available
• $99 now and $99 at renewal, with no expiring introductory term anywhere in the model

Honesty about rank: our $99 is not the smallest Texas figure in print. BetterLegal's $90 holds that spot. We sit in the low band with a rate that stays put, which is a different claim and one we can actually defend.

The Texas Mechanics of Firing Bizee: Form 401 Line by Line

Texas runs this through a single filing, and the whole thing fits in an afternoon.

1. Line up the incoming agent and get the consent in hand. Texas will not honor a designation the agent never agreed to, so this comes before paperwork rather than after it. Signing up with us produces the consent immediately.
2. Open Form 401 at the Secretary of State. It is the short filing that updates the registered office and registered agent on your entity's record. There is no equivalent form for merely deleting an agent, because the field is not permitted to sit empty.
3. Fill in the identity fields. Your entity name exactly as the state holds it, plus the state file number your company received at registration.
4. Fill in the incoming agent block. Name, and a Texas street address serving as the registered office. Ours arrive prefilled at signup.
5. Submit and pay. SOSDirect handles it online, or the paper version goes in the mail. $15 for an LLC, $15.41 if you pay by card.
6. Confirm on the public record. Search your entity, look at the agent line, and wait until it reads our name.
7. Cancel Bizee last. Not before step six returns the answer you want.

Bizee does not sign this form, is not asked about it, and cannot slow it down. Step seven exists only because Form 401 replaces one agent with another in a single motion, which means the way to avoid a gap is simply to leave the old service running while the state processes the change. Our change of agent page walks the same ground in more detail.

Where the Arithmetic Lands

$149 a year against $99 a year is $50 of annual difference, which is not dramatic on its own. What makes it worth acting on is that the $50 begins on a date you would have to go looking for, and ending it costs fifteen dollars and change, once.

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