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ZenBusiness reviews and compares ZenBusiness and MyCompanyWorks for LLC formation. ZenBusiness offers free formation (plus state fees) with extensive customer reviews while MyCompanyWorks charges $79 (plus state fees) and promises same-day or next-day processing.
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Last Updated: March 19, 2026
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ZenBusiness and MyCompanyWorks are both popular and reputable LLC formation services. Either can easily form your compliant LLC, and both have reasonable rates, especially compared to hiring a lawyer. However, each has its advantages.
We offer LLC formations starting at $0 (+ state fee), while MyCompanyWorks charges at least $79. Furthermore, we have much more experience, with 850,000+ LLCs formed compared to around 60,000 for MyCompanyWorks.
Would you like to get some more info before making your decision? Read on to find out everything you need to know about these two LLC formation service providers.
1) Affordable: With either ZenBusiness or MyCompanyWorks, you’ll save a significant amount of money on your LLC formation compared to hiring a business attorney to handle your formation process.
2) Great Customer Feedback: With thousands of reviews available online, both of these companies receive high average rating scores for their customer feedback, which indicates an excellent level of client satisfaction.
3) Efficiency: With either ZenBusiness or MyCompanyWorks, you’re getting a service provider that’s capable of processing an LLC formation quickly. If you’re in a hurry, both have options available that can speed up your formation.
4) Customer Support: These two services both have customer support networks that can answer all of your tough questions. Why go it alone when you can get help from ZenBusiness or MyCompanyWorks?
5) Additional Services: Both MyCompanyWorks and ZenBusiness have many other services for your business, from registered agent service to annual reports and much more.
6) Experience: Both MyCompanyWorks and ZenBusiness have helped form thousands of businesses over the years, and both have plenty of expertise. You can definitely trust these companies to have the necessary experience to form your compliant LLC.
ZenBusiness: We offer LLC service for free (just pay your state’s fee). If you’re looking for some advanced features, our $199 Pro package adds ongoing compliance assistance, an operating agreement template, an employer identification number (EIN), and faster processing. You also might like our $399 Premium plan, as it adds a business website builder, a domain name, a business email address, and 25+ business document templates.
MyCompanyWorks: The cheapest LLC formation service package they offer costs $79 (+ state fee). It includes an MyCompanyworks banking resolution, an operating agreement, customizable minutes, and a company alerts system. Its $199 Entrepreneur package adds a year of registered agent service and an EIN, while its $279 Complete plan adds ongoing compliance assistance.
ZenBusiness: We were founded in 2015 in Austin, Texas. Since then, we’ve served 850,000+ customers. We’re a public benefit corporation that provided grants to help our customers kickstart their businesses.
MyCompanyWorks: MyCompanyWorks has helped with 60,000+ business formations since opening in 2001.
ZenBusiness: ZenBusiness provides access to our customer service team by phone, email, or web chat. We have expanded availability that even includes Sundays — very few competitors have any weekend availability. We pride ourselves in continuously improving the quality and responsiveness of our customer support, and we believe we compare favorably to the vast majority of competitors in this area.
MyCompanyWorks: MyCompanyWorks provides customers with phone and email support. We reached out via the form on their website and received a response back in less than 24 hours, and we were also able to reach an employee on the phone quickly. Their reps were courteous and professional, and they elaborated a bit on their responses as well. Their hours of availability run from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. ET on weekdays.
ZenBusiness: With ZenBusiness, all formation speeds vary based on state capabilities. Also, if you’re in a hurry, you can choose one of our premium packages to speed things up a bit. When compared to other formation services, we are usually either just as fast or slightly faster. To find out your turnaround time, simply plug in your state and immediately see your estimated processing speed.
MyCompanyWorks: MyCompanyWorks says they’ll process your formation paperwork the same day you submit your order if it’s before 3 p.m. ET or the next business day if you submit your order after 3 p.m. ET. They have detailed estimates for both standard and expedited service on their order form, and their turnaround times vary by state.
ZenBusiness: ZenBusiness excels when it comes to customer feedback, as we have 28197 customer reviews available online, and nearly all of them are positive. Our clients are clearly satisfied with our services, and they frequently praise our efficiency, along with the general ease of use provided by our platform.
MyCompanyWorks: MyCompanyWorks has around 4,600 reviews available on their website, with most of them earning positive scores. That said, their Trustpilot reviews are limited and unimpressive, so this category seems like a mixed bag for them.
ZenBusiness: It’s important to us to make the LLC formation process as simple as possible. All you have to do is choose your LLC package from our three options, provide us with some information about yourself and your business, select which add-on services you’d like, and pay for the order. It doesn’t get much easier than this.
MyCompanyWorks: There are just four screens on MyCompanyWorks’ order form. First, you’ll choose your state and entity type. Then, you’ll choose one of their three LLC formation packages, along with any add-ons you might want. From there, you just need to fill out your business and personal info and payment details.
ZenBusiness and MyCompanyWorks each provide a robust selection of other business services, and there’s quite a bit of overlap when it comes to the specific services offered. With either of these companies, you can get registered agent service, annual reports, foreign qualifications, and more.
However, both also have some services the other doesn’t offer, so if you’re looking for virtual office services, MyCompanyWorks could be worth a look. If you’re forming a business in a state that requires publication service, then ZenBusiness may be a good choice, as MyCompanyWorks doesn’t offer this service.
ZenBusiness and MyCompanyWorks are two popular online LLC formation services, and both can efficiently and effectively register an LLC. If you’re still undecided between these companies, let’s look at a couple of scenarios that might help you determine which one to choose.
Are you looking for a company that offers same- or next-day filing for all LLC formation documents? MyCompanyWorks could be worth a look.
If you’d like to form your LLC with ZenBusiness, we’re here to help. We offer LLC formations starting at $0 (+ state fee), and we have 28197 positive customer reviews available online. Form your LLC quickly and get more tools to start your dream business.
The best ZenBusiness package depends on how fast you want to file your business and which extra services you want included.
Starter Package: Starts at $0 plus state fees. It includes a name availability search, preparation and filing of your articles of organization, electronic document access, a dashboard with unlimited storage, a 100% accuracy guarantee, 50% off the first year of our Worry‑Free Compliance service (renews at $199/yr), lifetime support, compliance alerts, access to our Velo AI assistant, our mobile app, partner offers with brands like 1‑800Accountant and Next Insurance, and a 30‑day trial of website, domain, and email tools (renews at $15/mo).
Pro Package: Starts at $199 plus state fees. It includes everything in the Starter package, plus 1‑day processing, an operating agreement template, an EIN, a logo builder, and a free quote from Next Insurance. The Pro package renews at $199 annually.
Premium Package: $399 plus state fees, and renews at $399 annually. It includes everything in the Pro package, plus business document templates, registered agent service, Advanced Compliance Protection, a business advisor consultation, and a 60‑day trial of ZenBusiness Money Pro (renews at $30/mo).
Yes, ZenBusiness can handle certain state-specific requirements like New York publication for your LLC so you do not have to manage that step on your own.
While some competitors will not handle state-specific compliance requirements for you, ZenBusiness offers a comprehensive LLC formation service. If you are forming a business in a state that requires publication service to form a compliant LLC, ZenBusiness can take care of that requirement for you.
You can check out our New York publication service offering to see how it works. For comparison, MyCompanyWorks will provide instructions to help you complete this step yourself, but it will not complete the publication for you like ZenBusiness does.
Would you like to take a look at a couple of other services that will form an LLC online? Check out our comparisons of ZenBusiness to other top-rated LLC services: LegalZoom, Bizee, and Northwest Registered Agent:
Our refund policy is one of the most reasonable in the industry. While many competitors have vague refund policies or even refuse refunds outright, we offer a 60-day money-back guarantee.
MyCompanyWorks has a confusing refund policy. You’ll see MyCompanyWorks refer to their 100% satisfaction guarantee quite a bit, which says they’ll refund your money if you’re unhappy for any reason. However, at the time of this writing, other parts of their website contradict this claim.
For instance, in the terms and conditions, MyCompanyWorks lays out a very different and much more costly refund policy. It says that depending on the status of your order when you request your refund, you will receive the total order amount minus a $25, $50, or $75 processing fee. Once your documents have been shipped to the state, refunds are no longer available.
You can, and many entrepreneurs do form their own LLCs every day. However, we appreciate the peace of mind we receive from using a reputable formation service. In addition, each state has its own rules and regulations for LLC formations, so there can often be more legwork than people might expect.
The biggest advantage of ZenBusiness compared to MyCompanyWorks is our $0 plus state fees Starter LLC formation package, while MyCompanyWorks charges a formation fee. MyCompanyWorks’ biggest advantage is its pledge to submit LLC formation documents to the state by the next business day.
ZenBusiness offers more built-in help with ongoing compliance through services like Worry-Free Compliance and optional registered agent and annual report support, while MyCompanyWorks focuses more on standalone compliance services.
With ZenBusiness, all packages include Worry-Free Compliance (included in Pro and Premium packages, and 50% off for the first year with the Starter package), which helps you track and meet key state filing deadlines so your business stays in good standing. You can also add registered agent service and annual report filing as separate services if you want ZenBusiness to handle more of your compliance work.
According to MyCompanyWorks, they offer registered agent and annual report services as separate, paid add-ons. They also have a compliance platform, MyCompanyWorks Premium, for ongoing support for an additional $139 per year.
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