A registered agent is not a virtual mailbox. We do not score mailbox suites, virtual offices, or Google Business Profile eligibility here. Alaska wants someone who can be handed court papers. If you need scans of catalogs, that is a different product on a different site.
What Alaska actually requires
In plain language. If you formed an Alaska LLC, you keep a registered agent and a registered office in Alaska. The agent is a person who lives in Alaska, or a corporation that is allowed to do business here. An LLC cannot take that job. Your own LLC cannot be its own agent. The agent needs a physical Alaska address and an Alaska mailing address. The Division’s FAQ says the agent cannot have the mail held or forwarded. If the agent will be out of Alaska, the company files a Statement of Change. For a domestic LLC, that form is Form 08-492. The fee is $25, and the form says it is nonrefundable. The form says mail it to Juneau. The FAQ also says fax or U.S. mail when the agent will be absent. We print both. You cannot change the agent on the biennial report. That report is a different paper. A domestic LLC pays $100. A foreign LLC pays $200. The statute says the report is due before January 2 of the filing year. The FAQ says the due date is January 2. We print both. If the company goes 30 days without an agent, the commissioner can start an involuntary dissolution, but only after a written notice. Check the live name on the corporations search before you file.
AS 10.50.055 is the LLC duty, and it is one sentence with two kinds of agents. A limited liability company shall continuously maintain in this state a registered agent and a registered office. The registered office may be the same as the office of the company. The registered agent may be either an individual resident of this state whose business office is the same as the registered office, or a domestic or foreign corporation authorized to transact business in this state whose business office is the same as the registered office. AS 10.06.150 is the business-corporation duty. A corporation shall continuously maintain in this state a registered agent and a registered office. The registered office may be the same as the place of business of the corporation. The agent is the same pair: an individual resident, or a domestic or foreign corporation authorized here, and the business office is the registered office. Neither section names an LLC as the agent. Neither section prints an age of 18. Neither section prints the words “no P.O. Box.”
The Registered Agents FAQs are Division guidance. The copy we read is the April 22, 2026 capture of that page. The live HTML did not open for us on September 26, 2026. We link the Division’s page, and we date the copy we read. That copy says who may serve depends on the entity type. For a business corporation, a cooperative, a nonprofit corporation, a professional corporation, an LLC, an LLP, and an LP, the agent may be an individual resident or a domestic or foreign corporation authorized here. The FAQ then says a corporation used as the agent must be a corporation, such as a business corporation, a professional corporation, or a nonprofit corporation. An entity cannot be its own registered agent. The registered agent cannot be a non-corporation entity, such as an LLC, an LLP, or an LP. A religious corporation and an electric or telephone cooperative are on a different line: the FAQ says the agent must be an individual resident. We do not move that individual-only line onto the LLC. The FAQ quotes AS 01.10.055 for what “resident” means: physically present in the state with the intent to remain indefinitely and to make a home in the state. The statute text we read matches that sentence. The FAQ also says the agent must have an Alaska physical address and an Alaska mailing address. It says the agent cannot have mail held or forwarded. If the agent will be absent from Alaska, the entity files a Statement of Change by fax or U.S. mail, with the $25 fee. Attorneys and incorporated law firms may act as agents. The FAQ’s courtesy list is not an endorsement. It names Northwest Registered Agent Inc, Alaska entity number 10021053, and prints no street. It does not name Bizee, LegalZoom, or ZenBusiness.
Form 08-492 is the domestic LLC Statement of Change, Rev 7/1/16, retrieved September 26, 2026. The letterhead is the Division of Corporations, Business and Professional Licensing, Corporations Section, State Office Building, 333 Willoughby Avenue, 9th Floor, PO Box 110806, Juneau, AK 99811-0806. The phone is (907) 465-2550. The email is corporations@alaska.gov. The website line is Corporations.Alaska.Gov. The form says each domestic LLC must continuously maintain a registered agent and a registered office, with an Alaskan physical location and an Alaskan mailing address, so the agent can receive service of process. It cites AS 10.50.408(a)(2) and (3) for involuntary dissolution if those requirements are missed. The fee line is $25 nonrefundable, code CORF, citing 3 AAC 16.065. It says mail the form and the fee to the letterhead address. The physical address and the mailing address are both required, and the state line is AK, mandatory. The current-agent line prints: the registered agent cannot be the entity listed in item 3, and cannot be an LLC. If the new agent is an entity, the form asks for its entity number. The form will not be filed if the signer does not match an official on record, or if the biennial report is not current. The processing note says complete and correct filings take approximately 10 to 15 business days, in the order received. That clock is a form claim. We print it as a form claim. The signature is a member, a manager, or an attorney-in-fact. The form cites AS 10.50.060 for the statement and AS 10.50.840 for who signs.
AS 10.50.060 is how an LLC changes the lines. The company may change its registered office, agent, or both, by filing a signed statement with the department. The statement names the company, the current office, the new office if that is changing, the current agent, the new agent if that is changing, and a statement that the change was authorized by the manager, or by the members if there is no manager. If the statement complies, the department files it. The change is effective when it is filed. AS 10.06.165 is the corporation change. The statement is signed by the president or a vice-president, and it includes a statement that the board authorized the change by resolution. The change is effective when the commissioner files it. 3 AAC 16.065 prices articles of amendment, merger, dissolution, an amendment of registration, or any other document filed under AS 10.50 at a nonrefundable $25. That “any other document” line is the regulation home for the LLC Statement of Change. The same subsection does not print a separate corporation-code dollar. The FAQ prices a Statement of Change at $25 and says to use the form for your entity type. ZenBusiness’s Alaska page, last updated August 26, 2025, says the change can only be filed by mail, and that for most business types the fee is $25. Northwest’s Alaska page says they will pay the change fee and does not print $25. Bizee’s Alaska page says a filing fee applies and does not print $25. We print $25 from the form, the regulation, the FAQ, and ZenBusiness. We do not invent a Northwest dollar or a Bizee dollar.
The Biennial Reports FAQs, in the May 15, 2026 copy of that page, say registered-agent information cannot be changed in a biennial report. The correct and only form for that change is the Statement of Change. That is the company’s paper for the agent line. It is not the lawsuit job, and it is not the biennial report. AS 10.50.063 is how an LLC agent resigns. The agent files a written notice and an exact copy. The department mails a copy to the company at its principal office. The resignation becomes effective 30 days after the filing, unless the company sooner appoints a successor under AS 10.50.060. AS 10.06.170 uses that same 30-days-after-filing clock for a corporation. The FAQ says the resignation form is $25 and is effective 30 days after receipt unless a successor is appointed sooner. ZenBusiness says the agent stays on file for 30 days after resignation unless a replacement is appointed sooner, and that the resignation form is $25. We print 30 days after filing and 30 days after receipt. We do not invent a winner. 3 AAC 16.065 prices any other document under AS 10.50 at $25. We do not invent a second resignation dollar.
The biennial report is a different paper. Say it once so the dollars do not get mixed up with the agent’s job. AS 10.50.750 says an LLC and a foreign LLC conducting affairs in this state shall file a biennial report. AS 10.50.755 says the report sets out the company name, the registered office and the registered agent, the managers or the members, and each person who owns at least a five percent interest. AS 10.50.760 says the report is due before January 2 of the filing year. A company that organized in an even-numbered year files in even-numbered years. A company that organized in an odd-numbered year files in odd-numbered years. The report is delinquent if not filed before February 1. Proof that on or before February 1 the report was deposited in the United States mail, properly addressed with postage prepaid, counts as compliance. The same section says that upon receipt of a form from the department, the company shall file a biennial report within six months after original organization. The Biennial Reports FAQ calls that first paper an initial report, says it is free, and says it can be completed online. The later report is the one with the fee. 3 AAC 16.065 prices a domestic LLC biennial report at $100 and a foreign LLC report at $200. A company that is delinquent pays a late charge of $25 for each year or part of a year, plus an additional charge of 10 percent of the filing fee and the late charge. The FAQ prints domestic $100, or $137.50 with the late fee on or after February 2, and foreign $200, or $247.50 with the late fee on or after February 2. Those FAQ totals line up with $100 or $200, plus $25, plus 10 percent of that sum. The FAQ says the due date is January 2, that reporting opens October 2 of the previous year for these companies, and that a report postmarked after February 1 incurs the late penalty. The statute says due before January 2, and delinquent if not filed before February 1, with a mail deposit on or before February 1 still in compliance. We print both clocks. We do not invent a winner. Filing the report is the company’s job. It is not the job of taking the lawsuit. The FAQ says the report cannot change the agent.
AS 10.50.065 is what happens when the agent cannot be found. The registered agent is an agent for process, notice, or demand. If the company fails to appoint or maintain an agent, or the agent cannot with reasonable diligence be found at the registered office, the commissioner is an agent. Service on the commissioner includes serving a copy and a fee set by the department by regulation, sending the company notice by certified mail, and filing the return receipt and an affidavit. The section does not say this is the only means of service. AS 10.06.175 is the corporation parallel. 3 AAC 16.065 does not print a dollar for service on the commissioner. We will not invent one. We do not invent Florida-style clock windows.
AS 10.50.408 is the involuntary-dissolution path. The commissioner may dissolve an LLC if the company is delinquent six months in filing its biennial report or in paying a fee or penalty, or if the company has failed for 30 days to appoint and maintain a registered agent, or if the company has failed for 30 days after a change of office or agent to file the statement of change, or if a material misrepresentation was made. The company may not be dissolved under that section unless the commissioner has given written notice by mail. If the company fails, within 60 days after the notice is sent, to contest the alleged failure, it may be dissolved. The missed-agent clock is 30 days. The notice comes first. The contest window is 60 days. We do not collapse those into one number. Reinstatement may be within two years if the problem is corrected and the company pays double the amount delinquent, along with what it would have paid had it not been dissolved. The name can be unavailable if it is no longer distinguishable. A missed biennial report is a separate ground from a missing agent. The report is still not the registered-agent job.
Northwest’s Alaska page says the agent must be an individual resident or a foreign or domestic corporation, that the agent must have a physical address on the public record, and that the agent must be present during business hours. AS 10.50.055 names the resident or the corporation, and it ties the business office to the registered office. It does not print a clock. The FAQ says mail cannot be held or forwarded, and that the agent needs a physical address and a mailing address. Northwest also says you can be your own agent, and that the state will not let you form without one. AS 10.50.055 says the company shall continuously maintain an agent. It does not print “reject.” Northwest’s resignation FAQ says you file two copies with the “Alaska BCS.” The office on the form and the FAQ is the Division, not a business-and-commercial-services brand. We print Northwest’s “BCS” sentence as vendor copy. Bizee’s Alaska page cites AS 10.50.155 for the agent. AS 10.50.155 is membership requirements. It is not the agent statute. The agent statute is AS 10.50.055. Bizee says a P.O. box does not qualify, and that the agent must be available during normal business hours. AS 10.50.055 does not print “no P.O. Box” and does not print a clock. The form requires a physical address and a mailing address, both in AK. Bizee says that if the LLC has no agent, the state can administratively dissolve it. AS 10.50.408 says the commissioner may dissolve the company involuntarily after notice. We print both. We do not invent a winner. ZenBusiness’s Alaska page cites Section 10.06.150 for what an Alaska registered agent is. That section is the business-corporation statute. The LLC section is AS 10.50.055. The page says only corporations can serve, and that an LLC cannot. That sentence matches the FAQ and Form 08-492. It also says an individual agent must be 18 or older. AS 10.50.055, AS 10.06.150, and the FAQ do not print an age of 18. It says post office boxes and mailbox services are not acceptable. The FAQ bans held or forwarded mail and requires a physical address and a mailing address. The statute does not print “no P.O. Box.” ZenBusiness’s resource list includes a link labeled “Alaska Secretary of State Business Search.” The filing office is the Division. We print that label as ZenBusiness’s words. We do not move a Secretary of State onto AS 10.50.055. LegalZoom’s Alaska article URL, /articles/alaska-registered-agent, said the page is not there on September 26, 2026. We do not invent an Alaska street or an Alaska change dollar from a missing article.
The public lookup is the Search Corporations Database at Corporations.Alaska.Gov. Confirm the live line there before you treat a marketing city as current. The form and the FAQ footer put the Corporations Section in Juneau at 333 Willoughby Avenue, 9th Floor, State Office Building, Juneau, AK 99801, with mail at PO Box 110806, Juneau, AK 99811-0806, and phone (907) 465-2550. The same FAQ footer prints an Anchorage counter at 550 W 7th Avenue, Suite 1500, Anchorage, AK 99501-3567, phone (907) 269-8160, with office hours Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. ZenBusiness prints 550 W 7th Avenue, Suite 1535, Anchorage, AK 99501-3587, phone (907) 269-8100, and fax (907) 269-8125. We print Suite 1500 and Suite 1535. We print 99501-3567 and 99501-3587. We do not invent a winner. Those lines are office contacts. They are not a vendor’s registered office. Those counter hours are the Division page’s hours. They are not a statutory agent clock. Alaska does not run a Nevada-style ten-company commercial-agent register. The commercial path here is a corporation authorized to transact business in Alaska. We did not find a commercial-listing dollar in 3 AAC 16.065. We will not invent one. 3 AAC 16.065 also prices articles of organization, and a foreign LLC registration, at $150. Bizee’s Alaska quick facts print a filing fee of $250. We print $150 and $250. We do not invent a winner. That formation dollar is not the agent’s job. We do not treat $250 as the regulation.
Cited prices, retrieved September 26, 2026
We print what the company’s official registered-agent page said on the retrieval date. No company publishes a different Alaska registered-agent price from the national card, except where we note an Alaska-page sentence. We do not invent a renewal.
| Vendor | Year 1 | Year 2 | Letters | Link |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Northwest Registered Agent | $125/year standalone; first year free only if you form the entity through Northwest | $125/year (same price; $100/year per state if you have five or more states) | B+ / B / B | Official page |
| Bizee | Free first year when you form through Bizee; standalone registered agent $149/year | Official pages we retrieved say $149/year after the free first year (or $149 from day one if you buy standalone) | C+ / B- / B | Official page |
| LegalZoom | $249/year on the official registered-agent overview (first-time customers) | Official footnote: auto-renews at the purchase rate until you cancel; “The renewal rate is subject to change.” | C / B- / B- | Official page |
| ZenBusiness | $99 + AK state fees for the first year (standalone); Alaska page says $99 + AK state fees | $199/year renewal on the Alaska page and the official pricing help page | C / B- / B- | Official page |
- Northwest Registered Agent: official page: “$125 Per Year.” Same price in year two on the national card. Five or more states is $100 a year per state. Retrieved September 26, 2026 from northwestregisteredagent.com/registered-agent and the Alaska product page. The Alaska page says they collect the first year’s fee up front and send an invoice about a year later. First year free only if you form through them. We do not treat that bundle as the standalone price. The page says the office is in downtown Anchorage, AK, and that they scan documents there. It does not print a street. The same company also sells extra mail scans: five free scans of regular business mail a year, then $15 a document. Those extras are a different product. We do not grade those extras as the registered-agent job. The page says they will pay the change fee and does not print $25. Form 08-492 and 3 AAC 16.065 price the LLC change at $25. The page says the agent is an individual resident or a corporation. That pair matches AS 10.50.055. It talks about business hours. AS 10.50.055 does not print a clock. The copyright line says Northwest Registered Agent, LLC. The Division courtesy list names Northwest Registered Agent Inc and prints no street. An LLC cannot serve as the agent. We print both names. We do not treat either one as a street we confirmed on the search.
- Bizee: official registered-agent page: free first year with formation; standalone $149/year; year two $149/year. Retrieved September 26, 2026 from bizee.com/business-management/registered-agent and the Alaska product page. That page names the Division of Corporations, Business and Professional Licensing. It cites AS 10.50.155. That section is membership, not the agent. The agent section is AS 10.50.055. The quick facts print a filing fee of $250 and a processing time of 10 to 15 business days. 3 AAC 16.065 prices articles of organization at $150. Form 08-492’s 10-to-15-day note is about the Statement of Change, not about articles. The page says a change fee applies and does not print $25. It says a physical street is required, a P.O. box does not qualify, and the agent is available during normal business hours. AS 10.50.055 does not print that ban and does not print a clock. It says the state can administratively dissolve the LLC. AS 10.50.408 says involuntary dissolution after notice. The page says the biennial report is due January 2. The statute says before January 2. The page talks about $50 to $300 a year as a market range. That range is not a Bizee price. The page names no Alaska registered-agent street. We print those vendor sentences. We do not invent an Alaska-only price from a missing dollar.
- LegalZoom: official overview: “$249/year.” The footnote says the service auto-renews at the purchase rate until you cancel, and the renewal rate is subject to change. The purchase price is for a first-time registered-agent customer. We do not invent a year-two number LegalZoom did not print. Retrieved September 26, 2026 from legalzoom.com/…/registered-agent-overview.html. We opened /articles/alaska-registered-agent the same day. That URL said the page is not there. We do not invent an Alaska street, an Alaska city, or an Alaska change dollar from a missing article. The overview talks about documents scanned and uploaded, and about alerts when important mail arrives. That is the court-paper path on the national card. It is not an Alaska street.
- ZenBusiness: the Alaska page, retrieved September 26, 2026, and last updated August 26, 2025, says it starts at $99 plus Alaska state fees for the first year, and renews at $199 a year, subject to change. The same page also offers 50 percent off when you switch. The national pricing help page prints the same $99 and $199 pair. The page talks about $100 to a few hundred dollars a year as a market range. That range is not a ZenBusiness price. It prints the Statement of Change at $25, by mail, for most business types. That dollar matches Form 08-492 and 3 AAC 16.065 for a document under AS 10.50. It prints a resignation that stays on file for 30 days, with a $25 fee. The FAQ says 30 days after receipt. AS 10.50.063 says 30 days after filing. It says an individual must be 18. The statute and the FAQ do not print 18. It says an LLC cannot serve. That matches the form and the FAQ. It cites Section 10.06.150 for the job in general. That section is the corporation statute. The LLC statute is AS 10.50.055. It publishes no ZenBusiness street. Its contact block prints 550 W 7th Avenue, Suite 1535, Anchorage. The FAQ footer prints Suite 1500. We keep the $99 and $199 card. We do not invent an Alaska-only price.
A change of agent is a separate Division filing. Form 08-492 and 3 AAC 16.065 price the domestic LLC change at $25, nonrefundable. The form says mail it. The FAQ says fax or U.S. mail when the agent will be absent. ZenBusiness says mail only, and $25 for most business types. Northwest’s product page does not print a dollar. Bizee says a fee applies and does not print a dollar. LegalZoom’s missing Alaska article does not print a dollar. The biennial report can list the agent. It cannot change the agent. The $100 report is not this change.
Who publishes an Alaska street
A city is not a registered office. We print only the streets the companies publish for registered-agent use. We do not invent the rest. Confirm the live name and address on the corporations search before you file. Headquarters is not the registered-agent street. The Division’s Juneau and Anchorage contacts are not vendor suites. We did not pull a live search row on September 26, 2026. A city on a marketing page is still vendor-claimed until that search shows it.
- Northwest. The Alaska product page says the office is in downtown Anchorage, AK, and that scans happen there. It does not print a street or a suite. The Division courtesy list names Northwest Registered Agent Inc, entity 10021053, and prints no street. The page copyright says Northwest Registered Agent, LLC. We will not invent an Anchorage number, and we do not treat 333 Willoughby Avenue or 550 W 7th Avenue as their suite. Northwest also sells extra mail scans. Those extras are a different product. The city is vendor-claimed. Use the corporations search for the name on your own filing.
- Bizee. Claims owned offices in all 50 states. The official registered-agent page names no Alaska street. The live Alaska product page names no Alaska street. The contact page lists 17350 State Highway 249, Suite 220, Houston, TX 77064 as headquarters. That address is not an Alaska registered-agent street. The courtesy list we read does not name Bizee.
- LegalZoom. The Alaska article URL is not a live page. The official overview publishes no LegalZoom city and no LegalZoom street. We do not invent an Anchorage suite or a Juneau suite. We do not treat a LegalZoom virtual-mail street as the registered-agent street.
- ZenBusiness. The Alaska registered-agent page publishes no ZenBusiness street or city. It prints a department contact at 550 W 7th Avenue, Suite 1535, Anchorage, AK 99501-3587. That line is the office as ZenBusiness prints it. It is not ZenBusiness. The FAQ footer prints Suite 1500 at 99501-3567. We do not treat either suite as their registered office. The same page’s resource list says “Alaska Secretary of State Business Search.” We print that label. We do not move it onto the Division.
If you are your own agent, the address on the public record is often your home. AS 10.50.055 lets an individual resident serve, if that person’s business office is the registered office. The FAQ’s residency test is AS 01.10.055. Northwest and ZenBusiness say you can serve yourself. ZenBusiness adds an age of 18 that the statute and the FAQ do not print. An LLC cannot serve, even if you own it. A commercial mailbox is not a sentence we found in AS 10.50.055. The form wants a physical address and a mailing address, both in Alaska. The FAQ says the mail cannot be held or forwarded. If you hire a company, the agent line has to be a corporation authorized here, not an LLC. Northwest’s product page names downtown Anchorage and prints no street. Bizee publishes no Alaska street. LegalZoom publishes no city and no street. ZenBusiness publishes a department contact, not a ZenBusiness suite. We label every published city vendor-claimed. Use the corporations search. Process Score has not been to those offices.
The $25 change and the biennial report
An Alaska limited liability company shall keep a registered agent under AS 10.50.055. A business corporation keeps one under AS 10.06.150. The agent is an individual resident whose business office is the registered office, or a domestic or foreign corporation authorized here whose business office is that office. An LLC cannot take the job. The company cannot be its own agent. Form 08-492 prints that ban and prices the domestic LLC change at $25, nonrefundable, under 3 AAC 16.065. The form says mail it to PO Box 110806, Juneau, AK 99811-0806. The FAQ says fax or U.S. mail, with $25, when the agent will be out of the state. ZenBusiness says mail only, and $25 for most business types. The change is effective when the department files the statement. The biennial report lists the agent and cannot change the agent. A domestic LLC pays $100. A foreign LLC pays $200. The statute says the report is due before January 2 and is delinquent if not filed before February 1. The FAQ says the due date is January 2, and that a postmark after February 1 is late. The late line on the regulation is $25 for each year or part of a year, plus 10 percent of the filing fee and the late charge. The FAQ prints $137.50 and $247.50 for that one-year late total. The first report, within six months of organization, is a different paper. The FAQ says that initial report is free. If the company has no agent for 30 days, or waits 30 days after a change to file the statement, the commissioner may start an involuntary dissolution after written notice, and the company has 60 days after that notice to contest it. If no agent is kept, or the agent cannot be found with reasonable diligence, the commissioner is an agent under AS 10.50.065. Northwest’s product page claims downtown Anchorage and prints no street. LegalZoom’s Alaska article is not a live page. ZenBusiness publishes a department contact, not a ZenBusiness suite. Bizee names no Alaska street and cites the membership section instead of AS 10.50.055. We do not treat a company hours line as AS 10.50.055.
Service of process, not marketing mail
We grade scan-and-forward of service of process and official notices:
- Bizee: notifications by text and email; court papers mailed via FedEx with tracking; portal upload by employees. The Alaska page talks about a physical street and does not print an Alaska street. Contact-page support hours are Monday–Friday 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. CST. Those are support hours, not registered-office hours. The “10 to 15 business days” line sits next to Bizee’s $250 filing-fee fact. Form 08-492 uses that same span for the Statement of Change.
- Northwest: “We scan every document you receive right where you receive it—in our office.” The Alaska page adds scans at the Anchorage office. Their extra mail-scan product is a different product. We do not grade those extras as a mailbox.
- LegalZoom: upload, email, and alerts for important mail on the national overview. The Alaska article is not a live page. Junk-mail handling on other LegalZoom pages is not the job we score. An age of 18 is not the statute.
- ZenBusiness: scan and upload to a dashboard; email; overnight the original for urgent legal notices. Their own FAQ says you cannot use the agent address as your business address. Their national product currently excludes PLLCs and nonprofits; that is their exclusion, not an Alaska statute. The Alaska page prints a department contact and a Secretary of State search label. Those lines are not AS 10.50.055.
Home-address privacy
Naming a commercial agent is how many Alaska owners keep a home off the agent line. The Division still publishes the agent name and address, and the biennial report still lists the registered office and the agent. Privacy of the agent line is not privacy of every field. The report also names managers or members, and each person who owns at least five percent. An Alaska limited liability company shall keep an agent. A blank line is not the same thing as a private line. The agent still has to be a resident or a corporation. Confirm the live line on the corporations search.
Not legal advice. Confirm on the Alaska Division of Corporations, Business and Professional Licensing before you treat these grades as current. Check the live name and address on the corporations search.
Scorecards
Northwest Registered Agent
Commercial registered agent- Year-1 / year-2 price
- B+
- SOS street and presence
- B
- Process and privacy
- B
Year 1: $125/year standalone; first year free only if you form the entity through Northwest
Year 2: $125/year (same price; $100/year per state if you have five or more states)
Retrieved: 2026-09-26
Bizee
Commercial registered agent- Year-1 / year-2 price
- C+
- SOS street and presence
- B-
- Process and privacy
- B
Year 1: Free first year when you form through Bizee; standalone registered agent $149/year
Year 2: Official pages we retrieved say $149/year after the free first year (or $149 from day one if you buy standalone)
Retrieved: 2026-09-26
LegalZoom
Commercial registered agent- Year-1 / year-2 price
- C
- SOS street and presence
- B-
- Process and privacy
- B-
Year 1: $249/year on the official registered-agent overview (first-time customers)
Year 2: Official footnote: auto-renews at the purchase rate until you cancel; “The renewal rate is subject to change.”
Retrieved: 2026-09-26
ZenBusiness
Commercial registered agent- Year-1 / year-2 price
- C
- SOS street and presence
- B-
- Process and privacy
- B-
Year 1: $99 + AK state fees for the first year (standalone); Alaska page says $99 + AK state fees
Year 2: $199/year renewal on the Alaska page and the official pricing help page
Retrieved: 2026-09-26
What this page does not do
- It does not rank mailbox networks or virtual offices.
- It does not publish combined star ratings or a fake 4.8.
- It does not treat a company hours line as AS 10.50.055.
- It does not treat the biennial report, or the $100 domestic LLC fee, or the $200 foreign LLC fee, as the registered-agent job. The report lists the agent. It cannot change the agent. The job is taking court papers.
- It does not let an LLC, an LLP, or an LP serve as the registered agent. AS 10.50.055 names a resident or a corporation. Form 08-492 says the agent cannot be the entity and cannot be an LLC. The FAQ says an LLC, an LLP, or an LP cannot serve.
- It does not treat the company as its own agent. The form and the FAQ forbid that.
- It does not invent a winner between the form’s “mail it” sentence and the FAQ’s “fax or U.S. mail” sentence.
- It does not invent a winner between AS 10.50.760, which says due before January 2 and delinquent if not filed before February 1, and the FAQ, which says the due date is January 2 and that a postmark after February 1 is late.
- It does not invent a winner between AS 10.50.063, which says 30 days after filing, and the FAQ, which says 30 days after receipt.
- It does not collapse the 30-day missed-agent ground and the 60-day contest window in AS 10.50.408.
- It does not treat a missed biennial report as the same ground as a missing agent. Both can lead to involuntary dissolution. They are different sentences.
- It does not invent an age of 18. ZenBusiness prints 18. AS 10.50.055 and the FAQ do not.
- It does not treat Bizee’s cite of AS 10.50.155 as the agent statute. That section is membership. The agent statute is AS 10.50.055.
- It does not treat Bizee’s $250 filing-fee line as 3 AAC 16.065. The regulation prices articles of organization at $150.
- It does not treat Form 08-492’s 10-to-15-day note as the articles clock. The form is about the Statement of Change.
- It does not treat ZenBusiness’s Section 10.06.150 sentence as the only agent statute. That section is the business corporation. The LLC section is AS 10.50.055.
- It does not treat ZenBusiness’s “Alaska Secretary of State” label as the name of the filing office. The office is the Division.
- It does not treat Northwest’s “Alaska BCS” sentence as the name of the filing office.
- It does not invent a Northwest change-page dollar. The product page does not print $25.
- It does not invent a Bizee change dollar. The product page does not print $25.
- It does not invent a LegalZoom Alaska change dollar. The Alaska article URL is not a live page.
- It does not invent a service-on-the-commissioner dollar. AS 10.50.065 says the fee is set by regulation. 3 AAC 16.065 does not print that dollar.
- It does not treat a Houston headquarters as an Alaska street.
- It does not treat 333 Willoughby Avenue or 550 W 7th Avenue as a vendor suite. Those contacts are the Division, as the form, the FAQ, or ZenBusiness prints them.
- It does not invent a winner between Suite 1500 and Suite 1535, or between 99501-3567 and 99501-3587.
- It does not invent an Alaska-only price a company did not print.
- It does not invent an Anchorage street, a Juneau street, or a LegalZoom street the pages did not print.
- It does not pretend an Alaska limited liability company may skip the agent. AS 10.50.055 says the company shall keep one.
- It does not treat Northwest’s extra mail-scan product as the registered-agent job.
- It does not treat ZenBusiness’s exclusion of PLLCs and nonprofits as an Alaska statute.
- It does not treat ZenBusiness’s or Bizee’s market ranges as those companies’ Alaska prices.
- It does not treat the Division courtesy list as an endorsement, or as a street.
- It does not score Alaska tax filings. The biennial report is not this filing, and income tax is not this filing.
Choosing among being the agent yourself, asking a lawyer, or hiring a commercial agent: DIY vs lawyer vs commercial. Vermont’s LLC change is $35, and the corporation statute and the fee table disagree: Vermont scorecard. Maine’s LLC says registered agent and its corporation says clerk: Maine scorecard. Hawaii’s office is also a commerce department, and Form X-7 is $25: Hawaii scorecard. California’s scorecard is a different statute: California scorecard.
Sources for this page
- AS 10.50.055 and AS 10.06.150 (Alaska Legislature print, text read September 26, 2026), an LLC and a business corporation shall continuously maintain a registered agent and a registered office; the agent is an individual resident whose business office is the registered office, or a domestic or foreign corporation authorized here whose business office is that office
- Form 08-492, Domestic LLC Statement of Change, Rev 7/1/16 (PDF retrieved September 26, 2026), $25 nonrefundable under 3 AAC 16.065; mail to PO Box 110806, Juneau, AK 99811-0806; physical and mailing addresses, state AK mandatory; the agent cannot be the entity and cannot be an LLC; will not file if the signer is not on record or the biennial report is not current; about 10 to 15 business days
- 3 AAC 16.065 (Cornell LII, text read September 26, 2026), articles of organization and foreign registration $150; any other document under AS 10.50, including the change, $25 nonrefundable; domestic biennial report $100; foreign $200; late charge $25 per year or part of a year, plus 10 percent of the filing fee and the late charge
- Registered Agents FAQs (Division page; text as captured April 22, 2026), individual resident or a corporation; an LLC, LLP, or LP cannot serve; the entity cannot be its own agent; physical address and mailing address in Alaska; mail cannot be held or forwarded; Statement of Change by fax or U.S. mail with $25; resignation $25, effective 30 days after receipt; courtesy list names Northwest Registered Agent Inc, entity 10021053, and prints no street
- AS 10.50.060, AS 10.06.165, AS 10.50.063, and AS 10.06.170 (text read September 26, 2026), LLC change authorized by the manager or the members and effective when filed; corporation change authorized by board resolution; resignation effective 30 days after filing unless a successor is appointed sooner
- AS 10.50.760, AS 10.50.750, AS 10.50.755, and the Biennial Reports FAQs (statute text read September 26, 2026; FAQ text as captured May 15, 2026), report due before January 2, delinquent if not filed before February 1; even and odd years follow the year of organization; the FAQ says due January 2 and late if postmarked after February 1; the report lists the agent and cannot change the agent; the initial report within six months is a different paper and the FAQ says it is free
- AS 10.50.408 and AS 10.50.065 (text read September 26, 2026), 30 days without an agent, or 30 days after a change without a statement, is a ground for involuntary dissolution after written notice and a 60-day contest window; if no agent is maintained, or the agent cannot be found, the commissioner is an agent
- AS 01.10.055 and AS 10.50.155 (text read September 26, 2026), residency is physical presence with intent to remain and make a home; AS 10.50.155 is membership requirements, not the agent statute
- The Search Corporations Database and the Corporations Section letterhead on Form 08-492 (search link as published on the Division’s corporations pages; form retrieved September 26, 2026), 333 Willoughby Avenue, 9th Floor; PO Box 110806, Juneau, AK 99811-0806; (907) 465-2550
- Northwest Registered Agent, official registered-agent page and Alaska product page (retrieved September 26, 2026), $125/year; first year free only with formation; $100/year per state at five or more states; product page names downtown Anchorage and prints no street; it says they will pay the change fee and does not print $25
- Bizee, official registered-agent page, Alaska product page, and contact (retrieved September 26, 2026), free year 1 with formation on the official card; standalone $149/year; year 2 $149/year; Alaska page cites AS 10.50.155 and prints a $250 filing fee; no Alaska registered-agent street; Houston contact HQ is not an Alaska registered-agent street
- LegalZoom, official registered-agent overview (retrieved September 26, 2026), $249/year; renewal rate subject to change; the Alaska article URL opened the same day said the page is not there; overview publishes no Alaska street
- ZenBusiness, official registered-agent page, Alaska registered agent, and pricing help (retrieved September 26, 2026; Alaska page last updated August 26, 2025), $99 plus state fees year 1; $199 renewal; Alaska page prints a $25 mail change and a 30-day resignation, and publishes no ZenBusiness street; national product currently excludes PLLCs and nonprofits