Montana Currently Charges You Nothing. LegalZoom Charges $249.

Disclosure first, because it should change how you weigh everything after it. This is a competitor's page. Registered Agent MT.org sells the Montana appointment for $99 a year and wants yours. LegalZoom's price appears here exactly as LegalZoom advertised it when we ran a check in July 2026, with nothing added and nothing shaved off.

The Brand Is Real, and So Is Its Value

No other name in this business travels as far as LegalZoom's. Decades of advertising built that, and for a first-time owner the sentence "we used LegalZoom" ends an argument at the kitchen table in a way no rival's name does. Recognition of that kind is genuinely worth money to some buyers, and nobody else in this market has it to sell. We are not going to pretend otherwise in order to win a paragraph.

$249, Flat, and It Renews Itself

Registered agent service costs $249 per year at LegalZoom. It is flat, it renews automatically, and our check turned up no first-year discount. Give the structure its due: nothing expires, nothing converts at month thirteen, and no membership level moves the figure. That is more honesty than several competitors manage.

What $249 cannot buy is a different statutory outcome. Montana asks one thing of a registered agent, which is a street address in this state, staffed during ordinary business hours, where lawsuits and Secretary of State correspondence can be delivered. Every provider selling into Montana meets that bar or would not be selling here. The $150 gap between $249 and $99 is not purchasing a better street.

Montana's Side of the Ledger Is Two Zeros Right Now

Here is the local arithmetic a fifty-state pricing page cannot run for you.

The annual report is the only recurring filing Montana asks of a limited liability company, and it runs on a fixed calendar under Mont. Code Ann. § 35-8-208. The window opens January 1 and closes April 15. The fee on the books is $20, but the Secretary of State has set it aside for anything filed on time in 2024, 2025, 2026, and 2027, which makes a report lodged inside the window free right now. Filed after April 15, that same report costs $35, being the standard fee with a $15 penalty on top. Stop filing entirely and the consequences leave the realm of money: roughly 140 days after the due date a notice warning of administrative dissolution goes out by post, and the entity can be struck by about December 1.

Changing your registered agent in Montana is free as well. Add those together and a Montana LLC that files on time and swaps agents this year owes the Secretary of State nothing whatsoever. The same business owes LegalZoom $249.

Seven hundred and fifty dollars across five years. Stated in Montana currency, that difference would pay to organize more than twenty limited liability companies at the state's $35 formation fee.

Automatic renewal does quiet work inside that arithmetic. The gap arrives in five annual slices, each one small enough that it never quite justifies an afternoon of research, which is exactly how a sum that would have stopped you in a single lump goes unexamined for half a decade.

The $99 Version of the Same Job

A Montana street address on your public record instead of your own. Anything served on us imaged and in your inbox the same business day, because a response clock starts at delivery rather than at discovery. A portal holding the whole history. A reminder before April 15. And the same $99 at every renewal, with no tier above it and nothing to decline at checkout.

One qualifier we attach wherever price comes up: $99 is not the floor in this state. BetterLegal advertises $90 annually. What we occupy is a spot among the lowest published rates in Montana, held steady at renewal, which is a different claim and the only supportable one.

Montana's Half of a LegalZoom Exit Costs Nothing

The filing is a Statement of Change that revises the registered office entry, the agent entry, or both. It has no number, because Montana issues no numbered business forms; the whole thing happens on the state's filing website behind an ePass Montana credential. It reaches the Business Services Division, and the published fee schedule shows no charge against it.

Sequence it deliberately, since the LegalZoom-specific risk is a date rather than a fee. Sign up, submit, verify that the record now shows us, and cancel at the end, with everything finished ahead of your renewal date, because that charge processes under its own momentum no matter what Montana's file now says. Reverse the order and you invent a coverage gap the state never asked you for. Our change of agent walkthrough has the fields and the confirmation step, and our service of process page explains what happens here the day something is delivered.

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