The Same Colorado Duty, at Two Very Different Prices

Who is writing, and why it matters: Colorado Registered Agent.co is a $99-a-year registered agent service, and this page compares us with a competitor. We have an obvious stake in your conclusion. What we do not have is any control over LegalZoom's price, which is published on their site and reproduced here as it stands.

Recognition Is Worth Something

Most people forming a first company have heard of exactly one legal services brand, and it is this one. That familiarity does real work. It shortens a decision, it reassures a nervous founder, and for anyone who already keeps trademark filings or estate paperwork on a LegalZoom account, consolidating the agent appointment onto the same login has a practical logic that price comparison does not capture. Nothing on this page argues that LegalZoom is a bad company.

The Price Is $249 and It Renews Itself

Registered agent service at LegalZoom is priced at $249 annually. It is flat, it renews on its own, and our review turned up no first-year discount attached to it. As pricing structures go this one is honest: no escalator, no expiring introductory rate, no membership level that changes the number.

The trouble is what the extra money buys, which in statutory terms is nothing at all. Colorado asks an agent for a physical address in the state, availability at it, consent to the appointment, and delivery of legal process and Secretary of State mail. That description is identical at $249 and at $99.

Six hundred dollars is a serviceable used laptop, or twenty-four Colorado periodic reports at $25 each. It is not a fortune. It is also not nothing, and it accumulates without anybody deciding to spend it, which is the interesting property of automatic renewal: a charge that nobody reapproves each year continues on inertia rather than on merit.

The Filing System Behind All of This Is Online Only

Worth understanding if you are new to Colorado, because it changes the shape of every task on this list. The Secretary of State does not publish numbered paper forms for business filings, and it does not accept paper for them either. Formation, periodic reports, agent changes: all of it happens in the state's web portal, which is why guides that tell you to download a form and mail it in are describing some other state. The practical effect is that most Colorado paperwork is a same-day errand rather than a postal round trip.

What We Do for $99

• $99 a year, and $99 at every renewal. The number on the order form is the number in year six.
• Same-day scanning. A served summons is scanned before the day ends and lands in your email and your portal together.
• A staffed Colorado street address in the agent field, keeping your home address off the public record.
• Periodic report alerts as part of the service, not a compliance add-on.
• No upsell screens after checkout, because there is nothing above this plan to sell you.

Before the arithmetic runs away with anyone: $99 is not the lowest sticker in Colorado. BetterLegal's $90 is lower. Ours is among the lowest, and it is still $99 in year five.

The Colorado Filing That Retires LegalZoom

One online Statement of Change, $10 to the Secretary of State, and the appointment moves; get us in place before you file so the role passes hand to hand without a vacancy, then cancel LegalZoom once the public record shows the change and comfortably before the next $249 renews itself. Our change of agent page has the steps, the statutes, and the shortcut.

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