New Hampshire Asks a $249 Agent and a $99 Agent for Exactly the Same Thing

Read the ownership line before anything else. This page comes from NH Registered Agent.org, which sells the competing product at $99 a year and profits from every reader it convinces. The LegalZoom rate quoted below is the one the company's own site displayed during a July 2026 check.

What the Brand Genuinely Buys

Recognition is not nothing. A first-time owner who has never filed with a Secretary of State and has no idea which vendors are real will recognize LegalZoom, and choosing a known name over an unknown one is a rational way to manage a risk you cannot otherwise evaluate. The company has been operating at national scale for a long time. Nobody hiring it is taking a flier.

That value is highest on the day you sign up and roughly flat forever after, which matters for a service you renew.

$249, Every Year, With Nothing Off the First One

LegalZoom prices registered agent service at $249 annually, billed on automatic renewal. Our July 2026 pass turned up no introductory rate, no bundled first season, and no discount attached to buying a formation package alongside it. Whatever else can be said about that structure, it is honest about itself: the price you see is the price in year one, year two, and year nine.

It is also the highest flat annual figure among the services we track for this state. Against our $99, the gap is $150 every twelve months. Across a decade of keeping a New Hampshire LLC on the register, $2,490 against $990.

Cheapest is a word we leave alone. BetterLegal's published rate is $90, which undercuts ours, and $99 belongs among the lowest flat annual prices a New Hampshire company will be quoted rather than at the very bottom of them.

The January 1 Snapshot

Here is a New Hampshire detail worth more than brand familiarity.

This state does not schedule annual reports by formation anniversary. Every LLC files in one shared window that opens January 1 and shuts April 1, and RSA 304-C:194 requires the information you report to be accurate as of January 1, not as of the day you sit down to file. That is a subtle requirement and an easy one to get wrong. If your registered agent changed in February, the report still describes the state of things on New Year's Day.

Which is why the identity of the agent on your record in late December is a practical question, not a cosmetic one. Notices about report status route through the registered office. An agent who forwards them slowly hands you a shorter window to correct anything that is out of date.

None of that is affected by what you paid. New Hampshire asks a $249 agent and a $99 agent for the same in-state office, the same street address on file, and the same person available during business hours to take delivery of a lawsuit. Above that statutory floor, the extra $150 a year is buying familiarity.

Leaving LegalZoom in New Hampshire

One filing does it: Form 10, which New Hampshire uses to swap out a registered agent (and the registered office too, if that is moving as well), submitted to the Department of State's Corporation Division for $15, or $17 when the state's electronic handling charge is added at online checkout. Our guide to changing agents in New Hampshire covers the form, the fields, and the timing in full.

Get the new agent signed on before the statement goes in. The record then moves straight from one name to the next and never passes through an empty space, because LegalZoom stays responsible for anything served until the state records your replacement.

The $99 Position

• $99 a year, flat, with the renewal invoice identical to the first one
• A New Hampshire street address on your public filings so your home address stays off them
• Court papers scanned into your account on the day they arrive, not on the day a mail run gets to them
• Reminders built around this state's single April deadline
• One service at checkout, with no menu of add-ons to decline

Where That Leaves the Decision

If you want the name, LegalZoom sells the name and does not hide the price. If what you need is a compliant New Hampshire address, a person there on weekdays, and documents in your hands the day they land, that job costs $99 here and $249 there, and New Hampshire cannot tell the difference between the two.

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