Four Invoices a Year From Swyft. One Filing Window a Year From Rhode Island.

Who benefits if you switch: we do. Rhode Island Registered Agent.co sells resident agent service in this state at $99 a year. The Swyft Filings figures below are published by Swyft Filings, recorded in a July 2026 check, and reported without editing.

Give Them Their Due on Speed

Swyft Filings is built around getting a company formed quickly, and that is a real competence, particularly for a founder who wants the entity to exist this week rather than next month. They also print both the price and the billing period in public. Nothing here is concealed. The problem is not disclosure.

The Rhythms Do Not Match

Rhode Island asks your LLC for money on a single, fixed schedule. One report, $50, filed inside a window that opens February 1 and closes May 1. That is the recurring cadence of being a company here as far as the business registry is concerned. Once a year, in one season, on a calendar you can plan around.

Swyft bills four times a year.

$149 is the price. A quarter is the term. Multiply first, compare second, and the annual figure lands near $596, with no separate opening-year reduction that our review could find.

Six years of our service costs roughly what one year of theirs does.

Nobody gets caught by this because they were careless. Quarterly amounts read as smaller than annual ones, and a $149 sticker sits comfortably among numbers like $125 and $149 and $199 that describe an entire year. The interval is printed honestly and the eye skips it anyway.

Set It Against Everything the State Charges

Total up what Rhode Island itself asks of a running LLC in a typical year and the figure is $50. That is the report, and there is nothing else on the recurring side of the ledger at the business registry.

Suppose you have a bad year and forget. May is slack time, so a late filing during that month still costs $50. From June 1 the report goes delinquent and $25 rides on top, making $75 the worst outcome the calendar can produce. Add a $20 change of agent, which you would only pay once and only if you were switching, and an unusually expensive year of Rhode Island paperwork reaches $95.

One Swyft quarter is $149. Which means a single invoice from them exceeds the most a careless, penalised, agent-switching Rhode Island LLC can be billed by the state across an entire twelve months, with room to spare. Four such invoices arrive each year.

What the One Invoice Covers

A Rhode Island street address that sits in the public file where yours would be. Papers served on it land in your portal before the day is done, and the alert follows the moment the upload completes. Reminders ahead of the February 1 opening and the May 1 deadline, and a permanent archive of every document received in your name. That is the service. There is no tier above it.

Worth mentioning, since a gap this wide invites the wrong conclusion: cheapest is a word we avoid. BetterLegal's $90 is the reason.

Ending a Swyft Filings Agent Subscription in RI

$20 and Form 642, the state's resident agent change statement for LLCs, submitted to Business Services on paper or through the online filing system. Our agent change guide has the walkthrough.

Move on it sooner rather than later, since every quarter you let renew is another $149 committed. But do not compress the order to save a fortnight. Rhode Island's statute says an LLC shall have a resident agent, present tense, and no allowance is written into it for an interval between one agent and the next. In practice that means the state expects a name on the line at all times, and it uses that name: the annual report reminder it posts before February 1 is addressed there, and so is anything else it needs to tell you.

Appoint us, file the change, watch the entity record until it shows us, then cancel the quarterly billing. That order costs you nothing and protects the only address the state knows to write to.

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