Firstbase Alternatives for Non-US Founders

The cheapest entry. A one-time price against a much higher listed regular price, including formation, expedited EIN, bank account opening and essential documents.

An honest unbundled model. Every component is separately priced on their own site: registered agent, mail, accounting, tax filing, sales tax. Nothing is hidden inside a bundle you cannot value.

Mail handling nobody else matches here.

Firstbase's Mailroom is $35 a month or $315 a year at Basic, and $50 a month or $350 a year at Premium.[2]Firstbase, Pricing Premium carries New York, San Francisco and Florida addresses.

Tax filing priced for this exact audience.

Firstbase prices tax filing for a non-US-owned single-member LLC at $899 annually per package.[3]Firstbase, Pricing It covers the pro forma Form 1120, Form 5472, unlimited 1099s and IRS extension filing, and it is the most directly relevant number on their site for readers of this page.

Scope beyond formation. Sales tax registration and filing, and R&D tax credit work priced as a share of the credit received. Most competitors here sell neither.

A registered agent is legally required in your formation state, and Firstbase sells its separately from the formation price.

Firstbase sells its registered agent service, Agent Autopilot, separately at $299 annually per state.[4]Firstbase, Pricing

doola's Starter plan is $297 a year plus state fees, and it renews at the same figure rather than at a higher one.[5]doola, Pricing The same figure in year one and year five, with no discount that expires and no component to renew separately. If you dislike unbundled pricing, that is the alternative.

Stripe Atlas is $500 once and $100 annually after the first year, and the renewal charges automatically.[6]Stripe Atlas It includes Delaware incorporation, founder equity issuance, share purchase and 83(b) election filing. Nothing else here includes the equity mechanics. Note that it incorporates in Delaware, so add that state's annual tax.

Globalfy's Remote plan includes the federal Form 5472 and pro forma 1120 filing.[7]Globalfy, Plans and prices Remote also carries state registration, EIN filing, a US address, registered agent, compliance calendar, bank account assistance, a named account executive and annual state renewal. Firstbase sells the equivalent filing separately, on top of its other components, so once you need the filing the two get close and Globalfy bundles it. Globalfy also works in Portuguese, which Firstbase does not.

Clemta's plans are Essentials at $349 a year, Pro at $1,068 a year and Premium at $2,879 a year, each plus the state fee.[8]Clemta, Pricing Essentials includes a business address with three mail scans, an operating agreement, compliance reminders and a free .com domain. Pro adds federal tax filings, state reports, W-8/W-9/1099 handling and BE-13 filing.

Our Starter is several times Firstbase's first-year price and somewhat more than Firstbase's second-year agent cost. We are not the cheap option and this page is not going to imply otherwise. Our Growth tier is for the case where the operating work is the problem: a banking application that turns on which provider's exclusion list your country appears on, a compliance calendar where one missed state deadline dissolves the company within months, and bookkeeping organized around reportable transactions rather than generic categories. If what you need is a company formed cheaply and you will handle the rest, Firstbase is the right purchase and you should not pay us instead.