Bizee (formerly Incfile) Alternative for Wyoming LLC: WyomingLLC

Bizee (formerly Incfile) is one of the best-known names in US company formation, and if you have spent any time searching for how to start a business in the United States, you have almost certainly seen its ads. It is a real, established option, and for the right person it can be a perfectly good one. This page is an honest comparison for non-US founders deciding between Bizee and WyomingLLC. We will not pretend Bizee is bad, because it is not. Instead, we will lay out what it does well, what its pricing actually looks like once the upsells are included, where it genuinely beats us, and where being purpose-built for non-residents makes WyomingLLC the better fit.

What Bizee Actually Is

Bizee, which most people still know as Incfile, is a high-volume formation company. Its core business model is to file your LLC or corporation paperwork cheaply, often advertising a "free" formation tier, and then earn revenue from registered agent renewals and a long menu of add-on services. That model has formed a very large number of companies, and the underlying mechanics work: they file articles of organization with the Secretary of State, act as your registered agent, and hand back your formation documents.

The headline selling point is the free Silver plan. With Silver, Bizee files your LLC at no service charge and includes the first year of registered agent service free. You still pay the state filing fee, which is set by the state and not by Bizee, but the company's own fee on the entry tier is zero. For a budget-conscious founder, that is a genuinely attractive starting point, and it is the main reason Bizee shows up at the top of so many "cheapest LLC" lists.

Where the picture gets more complicated is everything that surrounds that free filing. Bizee is built to upsell. The checkout flow and the post-formation dashboard surface a steady stream of paid add-ons: EIN application, operating agreement, business banking referrals, compliance alerts, expedited filing, business licenses research, and an annual report filing service. None of these are scams, but a non-resident who needs several of them will find the real cost of "free" climbing quickly, and the free first-year registered agent renews at a recurring annual rate after year one.

What Bizee Does Well

It would be dishonest to send you to a comparison page that only praised us. Bizee has real strengths, and for some readers those strengths will outweigh everything else. The most obvious is reach and scale. Bizee has been around for well over a decade, has filed an enormous volume of companies, and has the infrastructure of a mature operation: a polished website, a self-service dashboard, a published library of guides, and integrations with various downstream services.

The second strength is the genuinely low entry price. If you are a US-based founder who already has a Social Security number, a US address, and a US bank you can walk into, the free Silver plan plus the state fee is hard to beat on day-one cost. You can form an LLC, get a year of registered agent service, and pay nothing to Bizee itself. For a domestic side business or a US resident testing an idea, that is a legitimately good deal.

The third strength is breadth of optional services. Because Bizee sells so many add-ons, almost anything you might eventually need for a US company is available somewhere in its catalog: annual report filing, business license research, registered agent in all fifty states, and ongoing compliance reminders. If you want one vendor that can theoretically handle every administrative task over the life of the company and you do not mind paying per item, that one-stop breadth has real value.

The Pricing Reality for Non-Residents

The free Silver plan is designed around the assumption that you already have the pieces a US resident has. A non-resident usually does not, and that is where the advertised price and the real price diverge. Consider what a founder living outside the United States actually needs to operate: the LLC itself, an EIN obtained without a Social Security number, an operating agreement, and a path to a usable US business bank or fintech account. On the free tier, several of these are paid add-ons rather than included items.

The single biggest gap is the EIN. As a non-resident without an SSN, you cannot use the instant online IRS application. The EIN must be requested on Form SS-4, typically submitted by fax, and the IRS issues it in roughly eight to ten business days. Bizee will obtain an EIN for you, but it is a paid add-on, and the price for that service is set by Bizee and changes over time, so verify the current figure on their site. Stack the EIN add-on, the operating agreement if it is not bundled at your tier, and any expedited handling, and the "free" formation is no longer free.

Here is an illustrative, approximate breakdown. These figures are estimates to show the shape of the cost, not a price quote. Bizee's add-on prices and even the Wyoming state fee can change, so confirm both before you decide.

The honest takeaway is that Bizee's free tier is genuinely free for the items it covers, but a non-resident typically needs items it does not cover. WyomingLLC's $397 is a single flat number that already contains the EIN-without-SSN process, the operating agreement, the first year of registered agent, and bank introductions, with no second checkout screen.

The 5-Year Cost Math

Day-one price is the wrong number to optimize. An LLC is an ongoing entity, and what matters is the total you will pay over the years you keep it. The recurring cost on both sides is dominated by two things: the registered agent renewal and Wyoming's annual report license tax. The annual report license tax is paid to the state every year, with a minimum of roughly sixty dollars for most small LLCs, and it is owed no matter which provider you use. Registered agent renewal, by contrast, is set by your provider.

With Bizee, the first year of registered agent is free, but it renews annually after that at Bizee's standard rate, which you should verify on their site. So a five-year Bizee path looks roughly like: year one free fee plus whatever add-ons you bought, then four renewals of registered agent service, plus the Wyoming annual report each of the five years, plus the cost of any compliance or annual-report-filing add-ons you keep subscribing to. The add-on subscriptions are the part founders most often forget, and they are the part that quietly inflates the multi-year total.

Below is an illustrative five-year sketch. Treat the numbers as placeholders that demonstrate the structure; fill in the real, current figures from each provider before relying on them.

The point of the table is not to claim a precise dollar advantage, because that depends on current renewal rates that both companies can change. The point is that the two paths converge on the same recurring spine, the annual report and a registered agent renewal, and the difference is concentrated in year one and in how many optional subscriptions you carry forward. If you buy few add-ons and watch your renewals, Bizee can be inexpensive over five years. If you accept the upsells, the gap widens in our favor.

When Bizee Is the Better Choice

We would rather you pick the right tool than pick us. There are clear situations where Bizee is the better call, and you should choose it without hesitation if you are in one of them. The clearest is when you are a US-based business owner. If you live in the United States, have a Social Security number, and can open a bank account in person, the free Silver tier plus the state fee is an excellent deal, and you simply do not need the non-resident machinery that WyomingLLC is built around. Paying $397 for problems you do not have makes no sense.

Bizee is also the better choice if you want a single vendor with the broadest possible menu of ongoing services and you are comfortable buying them piecemeal. If you anticipate needing business license research in multiple states, registered agent service across several states, or a deep compliance product suite, Bizee's catalog is wider than ours. We deliberately keep our scope narrow, so a founder who wants everything under one roof may prefer the larger menu even with the upsell friction.

Finally, Bizee can be the better choice if absolute lowest year-one out-of-pocket is your only priority and you are willing to do the rest yourself. If you can get your own EIN, write your own operating agreement, and handle your own banking, then paying zero in service fees and only the state fee is unbeatable on price. WyomingLLC's value is in bundling and in non-resident expertise; if you need neither, you are paying for convenience you will not use.

When WyomingLLC Is the Better Choice

The mirror image is just as clear. WyomingLLC is built specifically for founders who do not live in the United States, do not have a Social Security number, and have never set foot in the country. You do not need to visit, you do not need a US address of your own, and you do not need a visa. The entire process is designed to run from wherever you are, and the things that trip up a non-resident on a general-purpose platform are the things we handle by default.

The EIN is the sharpest example. Because you cannot use the IRS instant online tool without an SSN, the EIN has to go through the Form SS-4 fax process and takes roughly eight to ten business days. We treat that as part of the standard package, not as an add-on you discover at checkout. The same is true of bank account introductions. We make introductions to fintech providers like Mercury, Relay, and Wise, which run on FDIC-insured partner banks rather than being chartered banks themselves. We want to be precise about this: an introduction is not a guarantee. Approval is always the provider's own decision, it depends on your country profile and your documents, and some countries are excluded, so you should always check the provider's current eligibility list before you count on any one of them.

WyomingLLC is also the better choice when you value a single transparent number over a low headline with conditional extras. Our price is $397, all-inclusive for the core stack, and there is no second screen. The LLC typically forms in about twenty-four hours. Support runs over WhatsApp during business hours across the New York and Dhaka time zones, which together cover most of the day, with email always available. If you would rather not assemble the non-resident pieces yourself and re-verify which add-ons you still need, the bundled, founder-aware approach is the reason we exist.

A Worked Example

Picture a freelance software developer in Bangladesh who sells services to clients in Europe and the United States and wants a US LLC to invoice through and to hold a US business account. On Bizee's free Silver plan, the LLC formation fee is zero and the first year of registered agent is free, which looks like the cheapest possible start. But she has no SSN, so the EIN becomes a paid add-on with a wait of eight to ten business days. She also needs an operating agreement, and she needs a realistic route to a Mercury, Relay, or Wise account, which is not Bizee's core offering. By the time she adds the EIN service and pieces together banking on her own, the free plan has turned into several separate purchases and a fair amount of self-directed research.

On WyomingLLC, the same founder pays one price, $397, which already contains the LLC, the EIN obtained without an SSN, the operating agreement, the first year of registered agent, and the bank introductions, and she gets WhatsApp support in a time zone that overlaps hers. The LLC forms in around a day; the EIN follows in roughly eight to ten business days because that is simply how the SS-4 process works for anyone without an SSN, on any provider. Her real decision is not which company files faster, since the EIN timeline is the same everywhere, but whether she wants the pieces bundled and the non-resident path handled for her, or whether she would rather chase the lowest fee and assemble the rest herself.

Now flip the scenario: a US resident in Texas with an SSN starting a small consulting business. For him, Bizee's free Silver plan is the smarter pick. He can get his own EIN online in minutes for free, open a bank account at his local branch, and skip everything WyomingLLC bundles. Same two companies, opposite right answers, entirely because of residency.

Common Mistakes and Edge Cases

The most common mistake non-residents make is reading "free LLC" as "free everything." Formation is one line item among several, and the others, EIN without an SSN, operating agreement, and banking, are exactly the ones a non-resident cannot skip. Read any free tier as "free filing, paid extras," and price out the extras you actually need before comparing.

A second mistake is forgetting the federal filing obligations that follow formation, regardless of which provider you used. A foreign-owned single-member LLC is treated as disregarded and generally must file Form 5472 together with a pro forma Form 1120 each year; missing that carries a penalty of $25,000 under IRC 6038A, with the deadline around April 15 and an extension available via Form 7004. A multi-member LLC files Form 1065 with K-1s instead, due around March 15. Neither Bizee's free tier nor our $397 package is a substitute for this filing; we work with referral partners for Form 5472 and tax preparation, and you should treat those filings as non-negotiable.

An edge case worth flagging is the BOI report under the Corporate Transparency Act. Under FinCEN's March 2025 interim final rule, US-formed domestic entities are exempt from the beneficial ownership reporting requirement, while foreign reporting companies remain in scope. A Wyoming LLC you form is a domestic entity, so the exemption generally applies, but rules in this area have changed more than once, so confirm the current position rather than relying on any single article. Likewise, do not assume a tax treaty exists for your country; the US has income tax treaties with roughly sixty-six countries, and you should confirm yours on the IRS treaty list or with a CPA rather than guessing.

How Switching Works

If you formed with Bizee and want to move to WyomingLLC, the mechanism is a change of registered agent, and it can happen at any point in the year. You do not dissolve and refile your company; the LLC stays exactly as it is, with the same name, EIN, and formation date. All that changes is who serves as your registered agent of record with the Wyoming Secretary of State.

The steps are straightforward. First, you order WyomingLLC at $397. Second, we file a Change of Registered Agent form with the Wyoming Secretary of State, which carries a small state fee of about five dollars. Third, we become your registered agent within roughly five to ten business days. Fourth, once we are confirmed as the agent of record, you cancel your Bizee registered agent subscription so you are not paying both. The migration typically completes within about two weeks.

One practical note: cancel Bizee only after the state confirms us as your new agent, not before, so there is never a gap in coverage. Keep a copy of your formation documents and your EIN letter regardless of who your agent is, since those belong to your company, not to any vendor.

If a single transparent price and a process built around non-resident founders is what you want, you can form a Wyoming LLC with us for $397, all-inclusive: the LLC itself in about twenty-four hours, the EIN obtained without an SSN, the operating agreement, the first year of registered agent, and introductions to Mercury, Relay, and Wise, with no upsell screen waiting at checkout.