Tennessee Already Bills You by the Head. Your Agent Fee Does Not Need to Climb Too.

Ownership of this page, up front: TN Registered Agent.org wrote it, we sell Tennessee registered agent service for $99 a year, and we would like your business. The ZenBusiness figures below come from their own published rates as recorded in a July 2026 sweep, and we have left them exactly as we found them.

The Half of This They Do Better Than Us

The software. ZenBusiness has spent years polishing the part of this trade that most competitors treat as an afterthought, and it shows the moment you sign in. Filing history is laid out so a non-lawyer can read it. Deadlines appear where you would expect deadlines to appear. Nothing important hides behind vocabulary you have to look up first.

If what you want is a well-built place to keep company records, that is a real product, and choosing it is a defensible decision. We are not going to argue you out of liking it.

What we sell is smaller and blunter: a staffed street address in Tennessee, documents forwarded the day they show up, and one price that never develops a second act.

The Opening Number and the Repeating Number

Purchased standalone, their agent coverage costs $99 for the opening twelve months, plus whatever Tennessee collects when the filing goes in. Every year after that bills at $199.

Only one of those two figures describes your ongoing relationship with the company. This state requires a registered agent for the entire life of the entity, so an LLC reaching its fifth birthday has paid $199 four times against a single $99. Compare the one that repeats.

Two Things Climbing, and Only One of Them Set by Law

Here is the Tennessee context that national pricing pages tend to flatten.

This state does not charge LLCs a flat annual report fee. It charges $50 for each member, with a $300 minimum that absorbs your first six members and a ceiling of $3,000. A three-person LLC lands on the floor. Bring on partners seven, eight, and nine, and the state adds $50 apiece. Growth itself moves that line, and no vendor anywhere can negotiate it downward on your behalf.

So your Tennessee compliance budget already contains one figure that rises. The question worth sitting with is whether you want a second one, rising on an entirely unrelated trigger. The state's number responds to your member roster. A renewal step-up responds to nothing except the calendar turning over.

We should say plainly that ours is not the smallest sticker anyone publishes. BetterLegal lists $90, nine dollars beneath us, which makes "among the lowest flat rates in Tennessee" the accurate description and "cheapest" a phrase we skip.

SS-4534, and What It Does to Your ZenBusiness Line

Tennessee handles this with one short filing, numbered SS-4534, which replaces the registered agent named on your record. It carries a $20 fee and goes to the Secretary of State's business division.

Order matters more than speed here. Have the replacement lined up and willing before any paperwork leaves your hands, because the appointment does not transfer at the moment you decide to leave. It transfers when the state processes the change. Cancel ZenBusiness first and you have manufactured a stretch of days where your public record still points at a company you stopped paying, which is precisely the stretch a process server tends to find. Keep them in place until the record flips, then close the account.

The whole procedure sits on our change of agent walkthrough, and signup includes the exact agent name and Tennessee address the form asks you to enter.

What the $99 Actually Buys

• A Tennessee street address standing on your public filings instead of your own
• Anything served at that address scanned and delivered before the business day closes
• Notice before your report window opens, and again before it shuts
• A document archive that stays open at any hour
• Ordinary business mail scanned and passed along for a flat $15 per piece, a figure we publish
• $99 today, $99 at renewal, with nothing else on the order form

The Actual Choice

A hundred dollars a year is a fair price for software you enjoy using. If you open that dashboard often enough to notice it, buy it and stop reading. If you opened it twice, once at formation and once at your first renewal, then the $199 is buying you storage you never visit. Twenty dollars and one filing redirects it.

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