Rocket Lawyer's $125 Assumes You Have Legal Admin. Count What South Carolina Actually Generates.

Plain statement of interest before the comparison: South Carolina Registered Agent.co sells registered agent service here for $99 a year, and a reader who switches to us is revenue for us. The Rocket Lawyer figures below are drawn from that company's published pricing as of a July 2026 check and are not adjusted in our favour.

No Teaser, No Tier Games

The agent line at Rocket Lawyer costs $125 for twelve months, and it stays $125 whichever membership level you happen to sit on. Our review found no discounted opening year waiting to jump, and no cheaper agent rate reserved for premium subscribers.

That deserves to be said out loud in a category where introductory pricing is close to universal. Rocket Lawyer shows you one number and charges you that number. The disagreement we have is not about candour.

The Bundle Only Pays if the State Keeps You Busy

Rocket Lawyer is a legal subscription platform first. Document templates, e-signature, contract assembly, attorney consultations, and registered agent service as one item within that package. The value of the package scales with how much legal paperwork your business actually produces.

So count it, for a South Carolina LLC, in an ordinary year.

The Secretary of State's column comes to nothing. A standard LLC here, meaning one that kept its default tax treatment, sends that office no yearly report and pays it no recurring fee. There is no annual information filing to prepare, no renewal form, no periodic statement.

The one exception routes somewhere a template library cannot follow. An LLC that has elected to be taxed as a corporation does acquire a genuine annual report, except it is filed with the South Carolina Department of Revenue as a schedule built into the corporate income tax return, after a single initial report when the entity first registers. That is work for an accountant, on a tax form, with a tax deadline. No contract template and no fifteen-minute attorney call touches it.

Which leaves the honest question about the $125. If you are drafting client agreements every month, a legal platform earns its keep and the agent service riding along inside it is a bonus. If your recurring South Carolina obligation is essentially the agent line and your tax return, then the platform is the part you are unlikely to open.

Our Ninety-Nine, Itemized

The South Carolina street address that appears on your public filing in place of your own. Same-business-day scanning of anything served on your company, with an email sent as the document posts to your dashboard. Identical handling for anything the Secretary of State sends. Permanent access to the file history. Business mail forwarding at $15 an item if you want it, which is optional and is the only other charge we publish.

Rocket Lawyer quotes $125 and BetterLegal quotes $90 a year, and we are not going to pretend the second of those away. Our position is a modest one: among the lower published prices for South Carolina, and identical at every renewal.

Rocket Lawyer Out, Us In: the South Carolina Step

The state moves an agent appointment for ten dollars on a single notice, filed with the Secretary of State by mail or through Business Entities Online, and our change of agent page lays out the form, the fee, and the sequence step by step.

One instruction is worth carrying across from that page. Get the new agent appointed before the old subscription ends, because South Carolina wants the position filled continuously and the notice has no way to describe a vacant one. Sign up, file the notice, wait for the state's business search to show the update, then cancel Rocket Lawyer. In that order the company is never uncovered for a single day.

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