Texas Business Entity Search without the lookalike sites

The official source for Marketing agencies in Texas

Every listing on this page is an official government register: coverage is evidenced by the register's own pages, never asserted. Ordering is a printed rule, not a rating: registers with a verified official fee first, then by verified-fact count, then by name.

Using the official record

Texas splits its register across two offices: formation records and registered agents live with the Secretary of State, whose SOSDirect system charges per search, while the Comptroller's taxable entity search is free, shows franchise tax standing, and offers a public API.

What a lookup answers: whether the entity exists and its current status, its file number, and its agent of record; the register is also where certificates and copies are ordered when a bank or counterparty needs the office's formal statement rather than your screenshot. Use the official link in the table; it is the government's own site, not a reseller.

No certificate fee for Texas is verified from an official public page yet, so this page shows that absence instead of an estimate. The official site linked above carries the current figure; when we can verify it verbatim from a government page it joins the table with its source and date.

The same lookup goes by other names too, "texas business name search", "texas llc lookup", "texas annual report filing" among them; every variant lands on the one official Texas record.

Questions people ask

Is the Texas business entity search free?

The official search is the government's own tool and the facts we verified about access are quoted in the table above. Fees appear for certificates and copies rather than the lookup itself, and this page quotes them only where an official source publishes the figure.

Who runs the Texas register?

Texas SOS and Comptroller registers, in Austin. The table above links its official search directly and every quoted fact names its official source with the date we checked.

How do I get a certificate of good standing in Texas?

Order it from the official register linked above once the free search shows the entity active; our certificate guide explains who asks for one and what registers charge where the figure is published.