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Non-Resident Company Formation

Ten providers that will form a US LLC for a founder living outside the United States, compared on what the company costs to start and what it costs every year to keep standing.

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The comparison

10 providers. Sort any column; the sorted or filtered view has its own address and can be linked to.

How the fee is charged
Registered agent
State of formation

10 providers

Every figure here was checked against the provider’s own page in Oct 2026, except where a date is shown against the figure. Figures are rechecked at least every 90 days; one past that is marked “Recheck due”.

date checked against the provider’s own pagecalculated; oldest date among its inputspast its recheck window

Segments show the tier reached, not the score:BasicStandardStrongExcellent

Two totals, two horizons. Year-one total is what leaves the account to get the company registered: the provider's fee, the registered agent for the first year, and the state's own filing fee. Annual thereafter is what recurs from year two: the provider's fee only where it is a subscription, plus the agent renewal, plus the state's annual charge. The rubric weights the recurring figure higher because it repeats — a company held five years pays it four more times than the setup cost.

After forming the company

Scoring weights

rubric 2026.1

  • Year-one total cost40%
  • Annual cost thereafter60%

Set once per vertical and versioned. Changing a weight is a logged version bump, not routine upkeep — methodology.

Verification state

Dated fields in this table
90
Oldest check
Sep 2026
Most recent check
Oct 2026
Recheck window
90 days
Past that window
0

Put your own numbers in

The same fees as the table above, worked out for your situation.

Ranked for a specific question

The same verified data, ordered by the figure that answers one decision rather than by the overall score.

Guides

One question each, answered in the first sixty words from the figures in this table.

Scope

What the figures cover, and what is deliberately absent — an omission a reader cannot see looks like an oversight.

What this table covers

  • Provider fees are read off each provider's own pricing page. State fees are read off the relevant Secretary of State's own fee schedule, not repeated from the provider.
  • Priced for a single-member LLC formed in Wyoming — the state most commonly used by non-resident founders who do not specifically need Delaware, and one that publishes both of its fees plainly.
  • Stripe Atlas forms Delaware entities only, so its state figures are Delaware's rather than Wyoming's. The states-available column makes that visible instead of burying it inside a total.
  • Where a provider sells tiers, the tier priced is the cheapest one that includes the EIN, because a non-resident founder cannot file or bank without one. Where a provider offers no EIN service at all, the EIN column says so.

What it leaves out, and why

  • Whether a provider will obtain an EIN for an applicant with no Social Security Number. No provider states its policy on a pricing page, so it is not an attribute and forms no part of any score.
  • Filing turnaround times. These are published as marketing claims rather than commitments, and are not verifiable against a source.
  • Whether a US bank account application will actually be approved. That is not something a formation provider publishes, or controls.
  • The cost of filing Form 5472 each year. It is shown where a provider publishes it, but it is not added to either total: most providers do not offer it, and those that do sell it inside plans that include other services. Services that file it on its own are compared in the Form 5472 table.

Every figure above is dated to the last time it was checked against the provider’s own pricing page, not to when this page was published. See methodology for how scores are calculated from those figures.