doola Review (2026)$297/yr Plus State Fees
By Daan Haket · Researched and written with an AI assistant · who does what
Formation is the cheap part; the recurring bookkeeping and tax tiers are where the real cost sits, and state fees are extra on top of doola's price. Convenient especially for non-US founders, but a local accountant may be cheaper once you're established.
founders (often non-US) who want US LLC/C-Corp formation, EIN and compliance handled in one place without the paperwork.
you're a US resident comfortable filing formation yourself — the state fee plus a cheap registered agent costs far less than the bundle.
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Pricing (2026)
✓ Pricing re-verified 1 Oct 2026
| Plan | Price | What you get |
|---|---|---|
| Starter | $297 a year plus state fees | LLC or C-Corp formation, EIN, registered agent, US address |
| Pulse | $300 a year | bookkeeping, 30-day trial |
| Tax and Compliance | $1,999 a year plus state fees | Most Popular tier |
| Business-in-a-Box | $2,999 a year, or $329 a month, plus state fees | — |
Summarised from the pricing notes below; the notes carry the conditions.
These are the list prices. Starter is $297 a year plus state fees and covers LLC or C-Corp formation, EIN, a registered agent and a US address; state filing fees run $50 to $500 depending on the state, and they are yours, not doola's. Pulse bookkeeping comes with a 30-day trial and renews at $300 a year. Tax and Compliance, the tier the page marks Most Popular, is $1,999 a year plus state fees.
Business-in-a-Box is $2,999 a year, or $329 a month, plus state fees. doola's own FAQ states that all plans are billed annually. Worth knowing for timing: doola runs periodic automatic sales on top of that list. We have recorded two: an up-to-$750 sale that ran through 31 August 2026 and a 20% sale badged Back to Building that ran from 21 to 30 September 2026.
Both ended on schedule, and on 1 October 2026 the page showed no sale banner; the one struck-through figure left was the monthly view of Business-in-a-Box, $329 shown at $263, with no badge or end date beside it. So budget from the list column, because that is what year two costs. Plans change — always verify the live price on their site.
AIBUILDER10 — 10% off your first purchase of a Starter, Tax and Compliance or Business-in-a-Box plan. The code was supplied by doola via PartnerStack on 5 Aug 2026 and pinned down in writing on 10 Aug 2026 with no end date: a one-off discount on the plan you buy first, not a rate that returns at renewal. doola's terms say it cannot be combined with other discounts or promotions, and doola runs its own sales from time to time, so if one is showing on doola.com/pricing when you buy, compare the two and take the larger. When we re-read the page on 1 October 2026 it carried no sale banner, so the code applies to a first plan purchase.Vendor-confirmed: Confirmed in writing by doola via PartnerStack, 10 Aug 2026. Not tested by us at a checkout. Claim the deal →
What the price did
We capture doola’s own pricing page every month and keep the figures, so this is our record of the page — not a forecast, and not someone else’s summary.
The list prices have not moved: our July and August 2026 captures both carry $297, the $300/yr renewal, $1,999 and $2,999, and those same list figures were on the page on 17 August 2026. What is new on the day we re-read it is the discount — $1,999 shown struck through at $1,599 and $2,999 at $2,399. The list is stable; the offer on top of it is not. Re-read on 24 August 2026: the same list figures were still there, and the discount on top had grown from 20% to 25% — $222, $1,499 and $2,249, badged as up to $750 off all plans and running under a countdown that doola's partner mail dates to 31 August 2026. That countdown ran out: on 1 September 2026 the page showed the list prices again. Re-read on 21 September 2026: the list is untouched for a fourth reading — $297, the $300/yr Pulse renewal, $1,999 and $2,999 — and a new 20% sale sits on top of it, showing $237, $1,599, $2,399 and $263 a month, badged Back to Building and dated 21 to 30 September 2026 in doola's partner mail. The pattern is now established: the list price is stable and the discount on top of it comes and goes, so a reading taken during a sale says nothing about what the plan costs at renewal. Re-read on 1 October 2026: the Back to Building badge was gone and the list stood for a fifth reading — $297, the $300/yr Pulse renewal, $1,999 and $2,999 a year — with only the monthly Business-in-a-Box figure still shown struck through, $329 at $263.
doola’s pricing page, as we read it
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What doola does
Business formation and compliance made easy. Launch your US LLC or C-Corp from anywhere globally, complete with banking and tax management.
What buyers report about doola
Hands-on: not tested by usReported by buyers: Trustpilot, the BBB and formation-service comparisons, read August 2026
Themes from the buyer-review sites listed at the foot of this page, read in August 2026. We have not run doola ourselves, so this is other buyers' experience rather than ours. We summarise it here because the complaints are usually the part a vendor page leaves out.
- • For a non-US founder it removes the parts that are genuinely hard — EIN, US address, bank introduction — and reviewers rate the hand-holding highly. 4.7 on Trustpilot across 1,000+ reviews.
- • Support is reachable on chat, email, phone and WhatsApp, which matters across time zones.
- • $297 a year, every year, not once. Against one-time formation plus a registered agent at $39-$125 a year, the subscription costs more over any multi-year horizon. Do that arithmetic before signing.
- • 1-star BBB rating and not accredited as of 2026, with complaints about billing, refunds and support response on the lower tier.
- • The 60-day guarantee covers doola's fee only. State fees are gone, and refunds generally stop once your filing is submitted.
- • If Mercury rejects your bank application, the plan is not refunded and there is no second bank partner.
Where the ratings disagree. 4.7 on Trustpilot against 1 star at the BBB. Trustpilot captures the formation experience, which people mostly like; the BBB captures what happens when someone wants their money back.
Pages read (August 2026): Trustpilot
When the paid plan is worth it
doola's entry point, Starter at $297/year plus state fees, covers LLC formation, EIN application, a registered agent, and a US address — enough for a solo founder who already handles bookkeeping and taxes elsewhere. The concrete push toward paying more is tax filing: Starter explicitly excludes federal and state tax filing and bookkeeping tools, so anyone who needs those must jump to Tax and Compliance at $1,999/year. A dedicated bookkeeper and monthly financial statements are gated further, at Business-in-a-Box, $2,999/year or $329/month.
What no tier changes: EIN turnaround is set by the IRS, not by doola's plan — without a US Social Security Number, doola's own materials cite 4-6 weeks, extending to 8-10 weeks during tax season, regardless of which package you buy. State filing fees are also billed separately from every tier, so upgrading doesn't roll those into the subscription price.
Our monthly capture read this vendor's pricing page in July 2026 and again in August 2026, and the amounts were the same both times. We keep watching — the registry records what moves.
How to actually use doola
Getting started means creating a doola account and submitting company name, state, member details, address, phone, and email — a step doola describes as taking about 15 minutes with no documents required up front. doola then files the LLC, averaging about a week depending on state. The formation documents needed for banking and tax purposes become available in 1-2 business days for US residents. Opening a US bank account through doola's partner portal then takes another 3-5 business days, requiring a passport for international founders or a government ID for US residents.
The recurring bottleneck reported is the EIN for founders without a US Social Security Number: doola's own guidance cites 4-6 weeks, extending to 8-10 weeks during tax season, since that step depends on IRS processing rather than doola's own speed. Until the EIN arrives, both bank account approval and tax filing stay blocked.
Distilled from doola.com pricing and process pages, doola blog, and help.doola.com, read 6 Aug 2026
The natural comparison is Firstbase or a local accountant — other formation services, or doing it yourself.
Frequently asked questions
What does it cost to form a US company with doola?
$297 for the first year on Starter, plus your state's filing fee, which runs between $50 and $500 depending on the state. That covers formation, EIN, registered agent and a US address, and renews at $300 a year. Read on 17 August 2026.
What are the bigger packages for?
Tax and Compliance at $1,999 a year and Business-in-a-Box at $2,999 add filings, compliance and bookkeeping support rather than more formation. Both were discounted 25% when we read the page on 24 August 2026 — to $1,499 and $2,249, part of an up-to-$750-off sale — but that window closed on 31 August 2026 and our re-read on 1 September found the list prices back in place, so work from $1,999 and $2,999.
What is not included?
State fees, always, and they are the part that varies most by where you incorporate. Budget $50 to $500 on top of whichever package you take, and note that the renewal ($300 on Starter) is slightly above the first-year price rather than below it.
Is doola safe to run my finances through?
doola isn't a bank and it doesn't hold or move your money. It forms the entity, acts as registered agent and keeps the filings and books straight; where it helps you open a US business account, the account and the balance sit with the partner bank, not with doola. So judge it on filing accuracy and accountability rather than custody: who is registered agent of record, what happens — and who pays — if a filing or return is late or wrong, how your EIN and identity documents are stored, and whether you can move your entity and records elsewhere without a fight. Get those answers in writing before you commit to a multi-year bundle.
Is this a hands-on review of doola?
This is a researched assessment, not a hands-on test — where we've used a tool ourselves, we say so explicitly. We name what each tool is good and bad at, and we earn a commission only if you sign up, at no cost to you.
- Buyer reviews on Trustpilot, the BBB and formation-service comparisons, read August 2026.
- Re-verified 1 October 2026 on doola.com/pricing.
- A dated screenshot of that pricing page, kept on this site as the receipt.
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