Quarterly Billing Hides the Yearly Number. In New York It Is About $596.

This page is written by a competitor and you should discount it accordingly. NY Registered Agent.org charges $99 a year for the same New York job and gains from every reader who moves. The Swyft Filings figure below is theirs, published by them, recorded during our July 2026 check: $149, billed quarterly, with no distinct first-year discount that we could locate.

Swyft Filings Is Fast, and the Name Is Not Just Marketing

Speed is their pitch and they deliver on it. Swyft turns formation paperwork around briskly, the ordering process is clean, and support answers. Founders who want a company standing up quickly and a vendor that keeps momentum have a legitimate reason to be there. None of that is in dispute on this page, and none of it is what the objection is about.

The Objection Is Arithmetic, Not Service

$149 per quarter. Four quarters in a year. Roughly $596 annually.

That multiplication is the entire argument, and quarterly billing exists in part because it is rarely performed. A three-digit number that arrives four times reads smaller on a checkout screen than the same money billed once. Nothing dishonest is happening; the price is right there. It is simply presented in a unit that does not match the unit you use to compare vendors.

Now do the second multiplication, the New York one. Under LLC Law § 301(e) your only recurring filing with this state is the biennial statement, $9, due every other year during the calendar month your Articles of Organization were filed. There is no annual report, no franchise-style renewal at the Department of State, no late fee, and no administrative dissolution for missing it. Roughly $596 would pay that statement about sixty-six times, which works out to a century and a third of New York compliance bought with a single year of quarterly invoices.

The Free Option, Since We Are Being Thorough

A page this dependent on arithmetic should not stop the calculation where it flatters us. New York builds the agent into the entity. Every LLC organized here has the Secretary of State standing as its agent for service of process from the day of filing, and that appointment is not something a vendor grants or a cancellation removes. Papers served on the state are accepted and mailed onward to the service-of-process address in your record.

Which means the honest bottom of the market in New York is not $99, or $90, or $596. It is zero. Designate nobody, keep the state's default, file the $9 statement in your anniversary month, and your company is in full compliance. The costs are real but they are not legal costs: mail speed instead of same-day notice, and a mailing address sitting in a public database where anyone can read it. Plenty of owners are fine with both. If you are one of them, you do not need Swyft Filings and you do not need us either.

For Everyone Who Does Want the Faster Channel

Ours costs $99 once a year, and the renewal reads $99 as well. Service of process that reaches our New York office is imaged and lands in your portal on the day it arrives, with email notice attached, because a response window opens on the date of service whatever day the envelope would otherwise have reached you. The address on your public designation is ours. Compliance alerts arrive before the month your biennial statement is due. One invoice, one figure, one item at checkout.

A caveat on cheapness, since this page is built on numbers. BetterLegal prints $90. We print $99, which is among the lowest flat annual prices in New York rather than the single lowest one.

Swyft Filings Off Your New York Record: The Short Version

Send the Department of State a Certificate of Change on form DOS-1359-f, with $30. Hire the replacement before that certificate goes in, because the record still names Swyft Filings until the state processes it, and the point of paying anyone is to keep documents flowing through a channel you chose. Our change of agent instructions cover the form, the entity-type distinction, and the two smaller fees that do not apply to you.

Timing tip specific to quarterly billing: you have four exit points a year instead of one. The next one is never more than about ninety days away.

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