LLC filing fees, every state
US states charge between $35 and $520 to file an LLC, with a median of $100. The cheapest is Montana at $35; the most expensive is Massachusetts at $520. Those fees go to the state. FastBusinessFiling charges a flat $100 to prepare and file the paperwork in any state, so the all-in cost runs from $135 to $620. Every figure below was read from the state's own filing agency on August 4, 2026.
Checked August 4, 2026.
Every state runs its own registry and sets its own price, which is why the same paperwork costs $35 in Montana and $520 in Massachusetts. Nothing about the company you get is different. The fee is a line item on a budget somebody set decades ago.
What that fee does not tell you is what the state wants next year. A $50 formation followed by a $300 annual report costs more by year two than a $200 formation with no report at all, so the state pages linked below carry both, along with whether the state charges a franchise tax and whether it registers trade names at the county level. Our LLC service is $100 in all of them.
- Lowest state fee
- $35 — Montana
- Highest state fee
- $520 — Massachusetts
- Median state fee
- $100
- Our fee, every state
- $100 flat
- Figures last verified
- August 4, 2026
Every state, LLC filing fee and total
The first column is what the state charges. The second is our flat $100. The third is what you pay to have us do it. Click a state for its rules, its deadlines, and the exceptions that do not fit in a table.
| State | State fee | Our fee | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alabama | $200 | $100 | $300 |
| Alaska | $250 | $100 | $350 |
| Arizona | $50 | $100 | $150 |
| Arkansas | $45 | $100 | $145 |
| California | $70 | $100 | $170 |
| Colorado | $50 | $100 | $150 |
| Connecticut | $120 | $100 | $220 |
| Delaware | $110 | $100 | $210 |
| District of Columbia | $99 | $100 | $199 |
| Florida | $125 | $100 | $225 |
| Georgia | $100 | $100 | $200 |
| Hawaii | $51 | $100 | $151 |
| Idaho | $100 | $100 | $200 |
| Illinois | $150 | $100 | $250 |
| Indiana | $95 | $100 | $195 |
| Iowa | $50 | $100 | $150 |
| Kansas | $85 | $100 | $185 |
| Kentucky | $40 | $100 | $140 |
| Louisiana | $100 | $100 | $200 |
| Maine | $175 | $100 | $275 |
| Maryland | $100 | $100 | $200 |
| Massachusetts | $520 | $100 | $620 |
| Michigan | $50 | $100 | $150 |
| Minnesota | $155 | $100 | $255 |
| Mississippi | $50 | $100 | $150 |
| Missouri | $50 | $100 | $150 |
| Montana | $35 | $100 | $135 |
| Nebraska | $100 | $100 | $200 |
| Nevada | $425 | $100 | $525 |
| New Hampshire | $102 | $100 | $202 |
| New Jersey | $100 | $100 | $200 |
| New Mexico | $50 | $100 | $150 |
| New York | $200 | $100 | $300 |
| North Carolina | $125 | $100 | $225 |
| North Dakota | $135 | $100 | $235 |
| Ohio | $99 | $100 | $199 |
| Oklahoma | $100 | $100 | $200 |
| Oregon | $100 | $100 | $200 |
| Pennsylvania | $125 | $100 | $225 |
| Rhode Island | $150 | $100 | $250 |
| South Carolina | $125 | $100 | $225 |
| South Dakota | $150 | $100 | $250 |
| Tennessee | $300 | $100 | $400 |
| Texas | $300 | $100 | $400 |
| Utah | $59 | $100 | $159 |
| Vermont | $155 | $100 | $255 |
| Virginia | $100 | $100 | $200 |
| Washington | $200 | $100 | $300 |
| West Virginia | $100 | $100 | $200 |
| Wisconsin | $130 | $100 | $230 |
| Wyoming | $100 | $100 | $200 |
Government fees are the online filing channel, since that is how we file, and were read from each state's own agency on August 4, 2026. Where a state publishes a different fee for paper or expedited filing, this is not that number. Your exact total is recalculated at checkout from the same table, so what you are charged is the fee in force the day you order.
Questions about these numbers
Montana charges the least at $35, followed by Kentucky and Arkansas. Cheap to file is not the same as cheap to keep, though: the annual report, the franchise tax, and the registered agent decide your real cost, and a state that is cheap on day one is sometimes the expensive one by year three.
Usually not, and this is the single most expensive piece of bad advice in this industry. If you live and work in one state, forming in another normally means registering as a foreign LLC back in your home state anyway, which is a second filing, a second fee, and a second annual report forever. The out-of-state play is built for companies raising venture capital or holding property, not for a business run from a kitchen table. Ask a CPA before paying anyone to do it.
The formation fee is. Most states then want an annual or biennial report with its own fee, and a few levy a franchise tax on top. California's $800 annual franchise tax is the famous one, and it applies from the first year regardless of profit. Each state page here says what recurs.
Two reasons, usually. Some sites quote the paper filing fee when the online fee is different, and some quote a figure they published two years ago and never rechecked. These are the online channel fees, because that is how we file, and they carry the date they were verified so you can tell when they went stale.
You pay it through us and we pass it to the state at cost. It appears as its own line at checkout, at the amount the state charges, with no markup. Our fee is $100 in every state, which is why the totals in the table differ only by what the state wants.