What will your LLC cost in its first 3 years?
What an LLC costs, state by state, over its first three years: formation, annual reports and state taxes from official sources, with dates.
LLC cost calculator: state fees and services over 3 years
What an LLC costs in its first 3 years, state by state, filing yourself or through a formation service, from official fees and published prices.
The calculator adds up what states and services publish: filing fee, annual or biennial reports, fixed state taxes and registered agent. If a fee is not published, the total is a minimum.
You will need:
- the state where you form the LLC
- whether you will pay a registered agent service
Guides
- California LLC cost: 800 dollars a year plus filing fees
- Cheapest states to form an LLC: state fees over 3 years
- Delaware LLC cost: 110 dollars to form, 400 dollars a year
- Florida LLC cost: the state fees over the first 3 years
- Forming a US LLC from abroad: state fees and IRS Form 5472
- Georgia LLC cost: the state fees over the first 3 years
- How we verify LLC fees and prices, and how often
- LLC fee change log: state fees that changed in 2025 and 2026
- Nevada LLC cost: formation, Annual List and business license
- New York LLC cost: filing fees and the publication requirement
- Texas LLC cost: the state fees over the first 3 years
- Wyoming LLC cost: the state fees over the first 3 years
Comparisons
- Bizee vs Inc Authority: published prices compared
- LLC annual report fees and state taxes, state by state
- LLC annual report deadlines by state: when each filing is due
- LLC filing fees by state: formation, foreign and dissolution
- Northwest vs ZenBusiness: published prices compared
- Registered agent prices: what formation services charge a year
- ZenBusiness vs Bizee: published prices compared
- ZenBusiness vs LegalZoom: published prices compared
How we work
Official fees with dates
Every state fee links to the state agency, fee schedule or statute, with the date we read it.
Missing fees stay missing
What a state or service does not publish we do not estimate: the total then becomes a minimum.
Never ordered by commission
Options are ordered by cost only; advertising links sit apart from the result and are labelled.