doola vs Found Comparison 2026
doola forms a United States company, including for a founder with no US address, then sells the annual compliance that follows: Starter is $297 a year plus a separate state filing fee. Found is a free business bank account for a United States sole trader, with card, invoicing, contractor payments and a running tax estimate built in at no monthly cost. One creates the legal entity; the other banks and books it once trading starts, and Found states plainly that it is no use outside the US.
At a glance
- Found starts cheaper, at $35.
- Only Found has a free tier.
- doola bills annually only, so there is no month to try it for.
Side by side
doola | Found | |
|---|---|---|
| Starting price (they differ) | From $297 | From $35 |
| Pricing model (they differ) | Paid subscription | Free plan, paid tiers |
| Free tier (they differ) | No | Yes |
| Billing (they differ) | Annual only | Monthly or annual |
| Free trial | Not stated | 30 days |
| API |
doola
Form the company, then keep its books
doola sets up a US company for somebody who does not have one, including the people doing it from outside the country, and then sells the upkeep that follows. Formation is the cheap part. What costs money is the annual compliance, the bookkeeping and the filings, which is exactly the work that gets forgotten until it is late. Pricing is annual and the state's own filing fee sits on top.
Our note
The state fee is the number this page does not add up for you, and it ranges from under a hundred dollars to several hundred depending on where you file, so the real first-year cost is Starter plus a figure you have to look up. Formation alone is cheap almost anywhere; what you are buying at the dearer tiers is somebody else remembering the annual report.
Only on this side
- Covers legal & contracts
Found
Banking, bookkeeping and tax in one account
Found is a business account for self-employed people with the bookkeeping and the tax set-aside built into it, so expenses categorise themselves as they land and the quarterly estimate is on screen rather than in April. It invoices, pays contractors and files 1099s. The free plan has no monthly fee and no minimum balance, which is the reason to look at it before a bank.
Why people weigh these two
- Found instead of doola
- Found bundles banking, bookkeeping and tax in one account with a free tier, a cheaper way to keep the books once the company exists.
- doola instead of Found
- doola forms the LLC or corporation first, then keeps its books after, at $297 with no free tier where Found has one.
Which one should you pick
Pick doola if the company does not exist yet, especially from outside the United States, where doola specialises in getting an LLC or C Corp legally live in about two days. Starter is $297 a year plus the state's own filing fee, and the dearer Tax and Compliance and Business-in-a-Box tiers, at $1,599 and $2,399 a year, hand the recurring filings to doola once the entity is formed.
Pick Found once the entity question is settled and the job is daily banking for a United States sole trader or single-member company. The free plan costs nothing and has no minimum balance, categorising expenses and estimating quarterly tax as income lands. Found Plus and Pro, at $35 and $80 a month, add imported transactions and interest on the balance, neither of which doola's formation-focused pricing touches.
Common questions
- Can Found form a company the way doola does?
- No. Found is a business bank account with bookkeeping and tax estimation built in, not a formation service, and it says plainly that it is no use outside the US. doola exists specifically to set up a United States LLC or C Corp, including for a founder with no US address.
- Which one is free?
- Found's base plan costs nothing and carries no minimum balance. doola has no free tier: Starter is $297 a year before the state's own filing fee is added on top, since that fee is set by the state rather than by doola.
- Does doola do ongoing bookkeeping the way Found does?
- Only on its dearer tiers. Tax and Compliance, at $1,599 a year, and Business-in-a-Box, at $2,399 a year, move recurring filings and compliance onto doola. Found bundles categorisation and a real-time tax estimate into every plan, including the free one, but never forms the underlying company.
- What does Found's paid tier add over the free plan?
- Found Plus, at $35 a month, imports transactions from other accounts, adds unlimited categorisation rules and pays 1.50 percent on balances up to $20,000. Pro, at $80 a month, removes that cap, pays 2.50 percent and adds an account manager. Both come with a 30-day trial, and doola offers no comparable banking feature at any tier.
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