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State Fee Facts

Every state fee, with its source.

State LLC fee facts

Every state's LLC fees, one fact at a time

This site reports what each state charges to form an LLC, keep it in good standing and register an out-of-state LLC, and each number is tied to an official source. We rank the states by cost and finish every state page with the filing services we recommend, their prices and their renewal terms. If you only need one number, jump to your state; if you are comparing states, start with the ten lowest-cost states below or open the full 50-state table. Whichever way you read it, the sourced fact comes first and our opinion comes after it.

By the numbers

States covered

50
Three pages each

Lowest three-year state total

$50
Arizona and others

Highest three-year state total

$2,490
California

The ten lowest-cost states for an LLC

RankStateThree-year state fees
1stArizona$50
1stMississippi$50
1stMissouri$50
1stNew Mexico$50
5thMontana$75
6thHawaii$76
7thIowa$80
8thUtah$95
9thOhio$99
10thColorado$100

Every state in order

Three pages for every state

1

LLC cost guides

What a state charges to file an LLC, whether it wants a report and what a late one costs, how three years of state fees compare with the other 49 states, a cost calculator and the services we pick.

LLC costs by state
2

Registered agent guides

The agent rule in plain terms, who qualifies, where the address has to be, what the state bills every year and the agents we pick.

Registered agent rules by state
3

Foreign LLC guides

The fee to register an out-of-state LLC, the form to use, the certificate from the home state, the consequences of skipping registration and our picks.

Foreign LLC fees by state

Best services in the US

Methodology

How we rank the services

  1. Service bill, years one to three (34%): What the service itself bills across years one, two and three, read from the first-year and renewal prices on its website.
  2. Paperwork inside the price (28%): Which of the repeating chores come with the price: the agent on record, the state's periodic report and the EIN application.
  3. Second-year price (14%): Whether the amount charged from year two matches the first-year amount or goes up.
  4. Match to the state (13%): How closely the plan follows the state report cycle, the late penalties and the rules for the registered office.
  5. State fee shown apart (11%): Whether the state fee appears as its own line and is billed at the amount the state sets.
See the method

All fifty states

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