Four Invoices a Year for a Company Texas Contacts Once

The seller's interest, declared before the comparison starts. Texas Registered Agent.ai charges $99 a year for the same statutory role Swyft Filings sells, and this page exists to win the appointment. Their figures are quoted from published pricing recorded in July 2026, and we have added nothing to them except division and a calendar.

They Move Paperwork Quickly

Swyft has built a reputation on speed and largely deserves it. Formation orders go out without dawdling, order status is visible without an email chain, and there are humans reachable when something needs explaining. If you formed your Texas LLC through them and the experience was painless, that matches what most people report.

None of that is under review here. One recurring line item is.

Count the Billing Events, Not the Price Tag

Their registered agent rate is listed at $149. Read the period printed beside it: quarterly.

That produces four separate charges across twelve months, totaling roughly $596. A July 2026 review found no first-year discount attached, so $596 is the standing figure rather than an opening one. Nothing is hidden. It is simply quoted in a unit nobody else in this market uses, which makes it look mid-range when it is not.

Set against $99, the annual gap is about $497.

What Texas Asks of the Same Company in the Same Year

Here is the rhythm your Texas LLC actually runs on, and it is unusual in a way worth understanding before choosing who to pay.

The obligation did not vanish in Texas, it changed buildings. The Secretary of State keeps your company alive and keeps your agent on file, and then leaves you alone on an annual basis. The Comptroller is the office with the yearly date. Missing it costs $50 straight away, with percentage add-ons stacking onto any tax owed as the delay stretches, and a company that keeps ignoring the report ends up in forfeiture territory, where privileges go first and the certificate of formation can follow.

So the honest description of what a Texas agent contributes to compliance is calendar-adjacent. We do not prepare franchise tax reports and are not going to suggest we do. What we do is put the date in front of you before it arrives and forward what the state sends the day it lands.

Which sharpens the arithmetic. One deadline a year, and four invoices a year, and the invoices are the part you can change today.

The $99 Side

Our own Texas registered office on the public filing, so your address stays off it. Documents served on you imaged before the day is out and waiting in your portal, alert attached. The consent an incoming Texas agent must give, issued when you enroll. Reminders ahead of May 15. A permanent, searchable record of everything we have received on your behalf. One charge a year, identical at renewal.

Before that reads as a cheapest-in-Texas claim, it is not one. BetterLegal's $90 is lower. Ours belongs in the group of least costly flat rates, which is a smaller claim and a true one.

Swyft Filings Out, New Agent In: What Texas Requires

The change runs on one form and one fee.

The filing. Form 401 at the Texas Secretary of State, the short statement that updates your registered office and registered agent. The LLC fee is $15. SOSDirect takes it online; the paper version goes in the mail. Swyft is not consulted, does not sign, and cannot stall it.

What it asks for. Entity name as the state holds it, the file number assigned to your company, and the incoming agent's name with a Texas street address. All of ours are supplied when you enroll, consent included.

The order. Texas gives that agent line no permitted vacancy, so this is a substitution rather than a resignation followed by a search. File first. Watch your entity record until the new name appears. Cancel the old service only then. A blank in the agent field is not an administrative inconvenience; it is the address where served papers and state correspondence are supposed to arrive, pointing at nobody.

The timing. Ignore the quarter boundary. The Secretary of State processes changes whenever they show up and has no view on your billing cycle, so filing inside a quarter you have already paid for just means the record is right before the next $149 posts. The form gets fuller treatment on our change of agent walkthrough.

In One Line

About $596 a year, split into four, against $99 a year charged once, for a duty Texas describes in the same handful of sentences either way.

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