Most “best LLC service” pages are written by someone who has never filed an LLC. Ours are not. This page explains exactly what we do, so you can judge how much weight our conclusions deserve.
What we have used, and what we haven’t
We formed our own LLC through Bizee and paid for it ourselves (here is our Bizee review). That is the formation service we can describe as customers: what the package included, what it cost, and what the registered agent service and the dashboard are like once the LLC exists. When a page draws on that experience, it says so.
We have not bought a formation from every provider we compare, and we won’t pretend we have. Formation packages and registered agent contracts aren’t something a small business buys over and over. For the other services we work from what they publish: pricing pages, terms of service, renewal fees and refund policies. Every comparison says which providers we have used as customers and which ones we assessed from their published terms, so you can weigh the two differently. Our best LLC service comparison shows how that works in practice.
State data comes from the state
Filing fees, annual report deadlines, franchise taxes and processing times are taken from the Secretary of State’s own site for that state, not from another blog and not from a formation company’s marketing page. Each state guide records the date we last checked, because these figures move.
What we refuse to do
- No invented scores. You will not find a 9.4/10 on this site. A number that precise, assigned by one person, is decoration pretending to be measurement.
- No price tables. Formation pricing changes monthly and varies by state and by promotion. A price we type today is a price that misleads you in March. We link to the provider’s page instead.
- No universal winner. Every recommendation says who it is wrong for. A service that suits a solo founder in Wyoming is frequently the wrong call for a non-resident founder who needs banking support.
- No pretending to be lawyers. We are not attorneys or accountants. We describe what forms exist, what they cost and how long they take. When a question turns on your specific tax or liability situation, we say so and tell you to ask a professional.
The obvious conflict, stated plainly
We earn commission when readers sign up through our links. See the affiliate disclosure for the full picture. The honest consequence is that we have a financial interest in you buying something. We try to counterbalance it by telling you, on every comparison, when filing directly with the state yourself costs less and works fine. For a straightforward single-member LLC in most states, it usually does.
Corrections
If you find a figure that is wrong or out of date, write to 
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