Cross-border money, compared properly.
Datasets on the financial decisions that come with operating across borders, where every figure carries the date it was checked and every score is calculated from those figures rather than typed in.
- Year one, in total
- $150
Non-Resident Company Formation
Forming a US company from outside the US
10 providers, on what the company costs to start and what it costs every year to keep. Top 3 by computed score.
- Year-one total
- $150
- Annual thereafter
- $85
- Northwest Registered Agent — Deluxe4.6Score 4.6 out of 5, Excellent tier, rubric 2026.1
Northwest Registered Agent
- Year-one total
- $239
- Annual thereafter
- $185
- Year-one total
- $299
- Annual thereafter
- $209
Segments show the tier reached, not the score:BasicStandardStrongExcellent
Both totals are calculated rather than quoted, from the provider’s own published fees and the state’s own fee schedule. Every figure behind them carries its own source and check date on the full comparison.
One decision leads to the next
Forming an entity creates the need for accounts, which creates the need to pay people, which creates filings. They are covered as one sequence, not as separate sites.
- Form the companyRegister an entity from outside the country it is registered in, and keep it standing.Formation10 compared
- Open the accountsHold, spend and receive in more than one currency once the entity exists.Neobanks21 compared
- Pay peoplePay contractors and staff across borders without a local entity in every country.Contractor Payments15 compared
- FileMeet the filing obligations the first three steps create, in more than one jurisdiction.Expat Tax10 compared
What we cover
Each vertical is its own discipline, with its own rubric and its own re-verification cadence, rather than forced into one format.
- Neobanks & Multi-Currency AccountsDigital-first accounts for holding, spending and receiving multiple currencies.21 compared
- Large Transfers & FX BrokersBrokers for one-off and recurring transfers of significant sums — not remittance corridors.9 compared
- Business FX & Cross-Border PaymentsPayment and hedging infrastructure for companies paying or billing across currencies.15 compared
- Expat & Cross-Border Tax PreparationPreparers and platforms handling non-resident and dual-filing tax obligations.10 compared
- Contractor Payments & Employer of RecordPlatforms for paying international contractors and employing staff without a local entity.15 compared
- Non-Resident Company FormationRegistered-agent and formation services for founders incorporating outside their home country.10 compared
Work it out with your own numbers
- Contractor and EOR cost calculatorEnter how many contractors and employees you pay abroad, and see what each platform's published fees come to, cheapest first.
- Business FX payment cost calculatorEnter how many international payments your business sends from pounds to US dollars in a month, and how large, and see what each provider charges for them.
- Card spending abroad cost calculatorEnter what you spend on your card in other currencies in a month and see what each account's fees come to, cheapest first.
- What a US LLC costs to keep each yearChoose who files Form 5472 and whether you want a US business address, and see what forming and keeping the company costs with each formation service over the years you choose.
- State fees for a US LLC, side by sideWhat each of eight states charges to form and keep one, read from the states' own websites.
- Which providers serve founders in your countryEight countries checked against the country rules US business accounts and formation services publish themselves.
- US filing deadlines, in your calendarForm 5472, the FBAR and the return for Americans abroad, as a calendar you subscribe to once.
What is actually in here
Counted from the dataset at build time, not asserted.
- Individually dated figures
- 625
- Each with its own source and its own verification date, not a page-level timestamp.
- Products compared
- 96
- Across 6 published verticals. A vertical is published when its figures are verified, not before.
- Primary sources
- 130
- Provider pricing pages and state fee schedules. No figure is carried over from another comparison site.
- Most recent check
- Oct 2026
- Figures past their vertical's recheck window are marked as due, not quietly left to look current.