Estonia's own e-Residency marketplace lists more than two hundred vetted providers and publishes no prices at all. It is a directory, not a comparison — which means the one question every founder actually has is the one nobody answers.
There is no single best provider. What exists is a cheapest provider for a given profile, a set that cannot be compared because they publish too little, and a set that simply does not offer what you need. Those are four different answers, and collapsing them into a winner is how these comparisons go wrong.
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Find Your Shortlist
Nothing on this page is paid placement and no provider pays to appear. Where one runs an affiliate programme we may earn a commission if you sign up through our link; where one does not, we link to them anyway. Ordering reflects published terms and how well each option works for someone arriving from abroad — never what it pays.
Which one fits you
Four questions. It returns a shortlist rather than a winner, and tells you which providers it cannot judge and why.
Your shortlist
- Xolo€1,473 a year, recurring
- Cheapest that fits
- Accounting included
- Annual report included
- Helps with a bank or payment account
- Its own pages contradict each other — see the details
xolo.io · 2026-08-21
- Companio€1,634 a year, recurring
- Accounting included
- Helps with a bank or payment account
- States how the €265 state fee is handled
- No contradictions found across its own pages
companio.co · 2026-08-21
Cannot be judged on price
These may suit you and may be cheaper. They do not publish enough for us to total, so we will not rank them against providers that do.
- EntyTotal cannot be computed
- Helps with a bank or payment account
- States how the €265 state fee is handled
- Its own pages contradict each other — see the details
enty.io · 2026-08-21
Ruled out for your answers
Not worse — they do not offer what you said you need.
- 1Office — does not bundle accounting. Ask them directly for a written quote before ruling them out.
The Four, Priced
Alphabetically, because every other order is a ranking, and these are not ranked.
1Office
Each obligation priced separately
Key features
- States the state fee inside its price
- Address, contact person, report each priced
- Formation includes a year of address
Account details
- Entry price
- €510 once, excl. VAT
- State fee (€265)
- Included in the package
- Address and contact person
- €290 a year
- Annual report
- €250, filed for you
- Accounting
- From €135 a month
Summary
- States the state fee inside its price
- Address, contact person, report each priced
- Formation includes a year of address
- Accounting is extra, not included
- Two formation prices on its site
- Renewal figure contradicts its address price
Companio
Everything inside one monthly price
Key features
- Registration priced at the state fee
- Accounting, address and contact person included
- No contradiction found across its pages
Account details
- Entry price
- €89 a month, excl. VAT
- State fee (€265)
- Included, passed through at cost
- Address and contact person
- Included
- Annual report
- €250–€1,000, separately
- Accounting
- Included, to 1,000 transactions monthly
Summary
- Registration priced at the state fee
- Accounting, address and contact person included
- No contradiction found across its pages
- The annual report is priced separately
- A 3-month minimum on the discount
- Multi-shareholder support is not published
Enty
The cheapest published subscription
Key features
- Lowest published subscription, €22 a month
- Lowest formation service fee, €60
- Invoicing, e-signing and cashflow reporting included
Account details
- Entry price
- €60 once, then €22 a month
- State fee (€265)
- Billed separately, quoted as €290
- Address and contact person
- Paid plans only
- Annual report
- Not published
- Accounting
- Not published
Summary
- Lowest published subscription, €22 a month
- Lowest formation service fee, €60
- Invoicing, e-signing and cashflow reporting included
- Calls €290 the state's fee
- Its two pages give different prices
- No annual-report fee published
Xolo
Accounting and annual report included
Key features
- Accounting, tax reporting and report included
- Legal address included at every tier
- Multi-shareholder companies and banking help supported
Account details
- Entry price
- €99 a month, excl. VAT
- State fee (€265)
- Not published
- Address and contact person
- Address included; person not published
- Annual report
- Included
- Accounting
- Included
Summary
- Accounting, tax reporting and report included
- Legal address included at every tier
- Multi-shareholder companies and banking help supported
- Nothing published about the state fee
- Starter capped at 12 months
- No contact person confirmed
The cards carry the headline price. The rest of what each provider publishes — who it suits, what the tiers cap, and where its own pages disagree — is below.
1Office suits a founder who keeps their own books and buys only what the law requires. Formation is published at €315 one-off with the €265 state fee stated to be inside it, and the package includes a year of legal address, contact person and mail forwarding; after that the address and contact person run €290 a year plus VAT and cover up to 10 letters a month, with two- and three-year terms published at €430 and €585 plus VAT. Billing is a one-off formation fee and then a subscription that runs a year at a time; a package for up to three shareholders is published at €690, the annual report is priced and sold separately, and a €35 a month subscription exists for founders keeping their own books. Accounting is not in the package — from €135 a month on top if you want it. Two of its own figures do not agree: €510 in the shop against €315 for a self-service route, both read the same day, and the €195 recurring figure attached to some formation packages does not match the €290 charged for the same address-and-contact-person bundle sold alone.
Companio suits a founder who wants the accounting inside one monthly price, and is the only one of the four with no contradiction found anywhere across its own pages. Pro covers up to 1,000 transactions a month and 3 bank accounts; above that the tier is Ultra at €594 a month, quoted as variable, and OSS and Amazon FBA start at Premium, €199 a month, rather than at the entry tier. Setup is listed at €390 and shown discounted to the €265 state fee itself, with VAT and EORI registration included at the entry tier. Billing is monthly, and the 3-month minimum applies only where the €125 registration discount is taken — including when switching in from another provider. The annual report sits outside the monthly price at €250 prepared by 31 March, €500 to 30 June and €1,000 after that. Whether it serves companies with more than one shareholder is not published.
Enty has the lowest published monthly subscription of the four and is the hardest of the four to total. The formation service fee is €60, or €1,000 through a notary; extra individual shareholders cost €100 each and an Estonian legal entity as shareholder €700. The entry paid tier carries unlimited invoicing, contract e-signing and cashflow reporting, and the formation package names bank account assistance and a personal manager. Contact person and legal address come only with a paid plan: the free tier explicitly excludes the contact person, so it cannot lawfully serve a company whose board sits abroad. Neither its billing cycle nor any minimum term is published, and it publishes no annual-report fee, so no annual total can be computed from its own figures. Its Estonia page requires a subscription from €33 a month while its own pricing page's cheapest paid tier is €22 — both read the same day. And it calls €290 the Estonian government fee when the state charges €265.
Xolo suits a solo founder who wants accounting and the annual report in one price, and the report is inside the monthly figure. Billing is monthly only and no minimum term is published; there is no annual-billing price and no one-off setup fee, so every figure is monthly. Starter at €59 ends after 12 months or €4,000 of revenue, which is why the running entry price is €99. Shareholder ceilings go by tier — 1 on the entry tiers, 2 on Pro and 5 on Premium — and extra shareholders and OSS/IOSS reporting start at Leap Pro, €139 a month. Xolo Go is a separate product that registers no company at all: €0 a month against 5.9% on payouts. Nothing is published about the €265 state fee on its pricing, Leap or Go pages, so a first-year total cannot be computed, and whether a contact person is provided at all is not published.
How This Decides
Three rules, and the second is the one most comparison sites get backwards.
| Rule | What it means in practice |
|---|---|
| A disqualifier is not a low score | A provider that cannot serve you is listed as excluded, with the reason — not ranked last. Last place implies it is an option that happens to be worse |
| An unknown cost never wins | A provider that does not publish enough to total cannot be ranked first, however good it looks otherwise. It gets its own group and an honest label |
| A close call is reported as one | Inside about 5% on annual cost, the answer is 'either', and it says so |
Cost carries almost all the weight, deliberately. Everything except price is a correction of a few percent that cannot overturn a real price difference — and you can see every factor it applied on each card.
What You Are Actually Buying
Four things, and only two of them are legally required.
| Required? | Can you do it yourself? | |
|---|---|---|
| Registration | Yes — €265 to the state | Yes, through the e-Business Register |
| Contact person or Estonian address | Yes, if your address is abroad | No — licensed providers and notaries only |
| Annual report | Yes, within six months | Yes |
| Accounting | No | Yes — and this is where the price spread comes from |
The contact person is the one item you cannot take on yourself at any price, because the role is restricted to licensed companies and notaries. Everything else is a choice about your own time. See what it actually costs a year for the arithmetic.
How to Check a Provider Yourself
The dataset behind this page is four providers deep, read at source. There are dozens more, and you will find recommendations for them everywhere. Four checks separate a real provider from a good landing page.
| Check | What good looks like | What to worry about |
|---|---|---|
| Do they state the €265 state fee? | Named, and said to be included or extra | Silent about it, or quotes a different number |
| Is the annual report priced? | Included, or a stated figure | Not mentioned — it is compulsory, so someone is paying for it |
| Do their own pages agree? | One price for one product | Two different prices for the same package on two pages |
| Is the entry tier a real price? | No cap, or the cap is stated plainly | \"From €X\" that turns out to be capped to twelve months or a revenue ceiling |
One provider calls €290 the government fee. The government charges €265.
That is the most useful single test in the list, because it is checkable in thirty seconds and it tells you something about everything else on the page. The Centre of Registers publishes €265 for electronic registration; e-Residency's own knowledge base says the same; one provider we priced passes it through at cost and shows the arithmetic. A provider quoting a different figure for a fee the state sets is either marking it up silently or bundling something it has not named.
Common Mistakes
A "best provider" list is the first thing to distrust, because the right answer changes completely with whether you want accounting bundled. A single winner is a winner for someone else's profile. The official marketplace is the second: it is a vetted directory with no prices, so being listed says a provider was vetted, not that it is suitable or well-priced.
Headline monthly prices mislead in the same way. One provider's monthly fee includes accounting and the annual report; another's is an address and a mailbox. Silence is worse than a high price: a provider that does not mention the annual report has not absorbed it, and since the report is compulsory, someone is billing for it.
Two traps sit in the fine print. Check whether the entry tier is capped by time or revenue — one provider's cheapest tier expires after twelve months or €4,000 of turnover. And check the minimum term before switching, because at least one provider applies a three-month commitment, including to customers arriving from a competitor.
Frequently Asked Questions
Which e-Residency service provider is best?
There is no single answer, and any page that gives you one is guessing on your behalf. The cheapest option changes completely depending on whether you want accounting bundled — the spread across providers is roughly two-to-one on that question alone. Use the tool above, which returns a shortlist for your profile rather than a winner.
Does the official e-Residency marketplace compare prices?
No. marketplace.e-resident.gov.ee is a government-run directory of more than 200 vetted providers organised by service category, and it publishes no prices at all. There is no official price comparison for legal address, contact person or accounting anywhere on the state's sites, so the prices have to be read off each provider's own site and totalled.
How do I know a provider is legitimate?
The contact person role is restricted to licensed companies and notaries, so a provider offering it is regulated for that service. Beyond that, four checks tell you a lot: do they state how the €265 state fee is handled, is the annual report priced, do their own pages agree with each other, and is the entry tier a real price rather than a capped introductory one.
Why do you only compare four providers?
Because four have been read at source, on the provider's own pricing page, with the date recorded. A list of everything would be less useful than a comparison of what you would actually shortlist, and impossible to keep current at that standard. Providers are added as they are verified.
Can I change provider later?
Yes — the company is yours and the provider is a service around it. Check the minimum term before you commit: at least one provider applies a three-month commitment, including to people switching in from a competitor. Your contact person entry in the register will need updating as part of the move.
Do I need a provider at all?
Only for the contact person, and only if your company's registered address is outside Estonia — that role is restricted to licensed companies and notaries, so it cannot be done yourself. Registration, the annual report and the bookkeeping can all be handled personally. See what an Estonian company actually costs for what each piece adds.
Are the links on this page affiliate links?
No. Nothing on this site earns a commission today, and the ordering here reflects published cost and fit only. If that changes it will be disclosed on the page and in the ordering note above the results.
Are these prices with or without VAT?
Without, on every entry price quoted above — Estonian providers overwhelmingly publish excluding VAT, and all four of these do. The one line where the provider does not say either way is 1Office's €35 a month self-service accounting subscription, which carries no VAT treatment at all on its page. So the headline monthly figure is not the figure that leaves your account, and the commonest arithmetic error in comparing quotes is setting an ex-VAT subscription against a VAT-inclusive annual total. Estonia's standard rate is 24%, but what is actually added to your invoice depends on where you and the company sit, and none of the four pricing pages resolves that. Ask the provider to quote you a gross figure before comparing anything.
Do any of them serve a company with more than one shareholder?
Three of the four publish something, and the fourth is a gap rather than a no. 1Office supports multiple shareholders. Xolo does too, but additional shareholders start at Leap Pro, €139 a month, rather than at the entry tier. Enty charges €100 for each extra individual shareholder on top of the subscription. Companio does not publish whether it serves multi-shareholder companies at all, which is not the same as refusing. If you are founding with a co-founder, this is worth confirming in writing before you pay a setup fee, since it moves two of the four onto a more expensive tier.
Is there an option that involves no company at all?
Yes, and it is worth knowing about before you form one. Xolo sells a separate product, Xolo Go, that registers no company: €0 a month against 5.9% on payouts. Because there is no company, none of the four obligations this page prices applies — no €265 state fee, no contact person, no annual report and no accounting subscription. Equally there is no Estonian company: no EU legal person, nothing to retain profit inside, and nothing to hold contracts. It suits low volume and testing an idea rather than a business you intend to grow. Our freelancer page compares it against the company routes.
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