How Much Does a Florida LLC Cost in 2026?

Florida LLC one-time costs

What Florida charges once, when the LLC is formed, and the optional costs that arrive at the same time. The state fee is the same whether you file yourself or use a service.

State fees verified October 2026 and set by the state, not by us. Online filing prices; a few states charge a different amount on paper.

Florida LLC ongoing costs

What Florida charges to keep the LLC in good standing, when it is due, and what the state does when a report is late or missed.

State fees verified October 2026 and set by the state, not by us. Due rules, penalties and dissolution triggers are read from each state's statute or filing office page; the reinstatement figure is the state's own total at that point.

Florida LLC annual fee

Florida's recurring requirement: $138.75/year, due May 1 ($400 late penalty after). Florida calls the filing the Annual Report, and it goes to the Florida Division of Corporations (Sunbiz) at services.sunbiz.org. The Annual Report is due May 1, every year. In the state's words: May 1 ($400 late penalty after).

If you file late: $400 added by the state for a late report. After one missed report, Florida administratively dissolves the LLC, and the state's total to reinstate it at that point is $238.75.

The due date, filing window and portal are covered step by step in Florida LLC annual report.

Other recurring obligations

• Annual Report. Jan 1 to May 1 of each year after the filing/effective year. $138.75 ($538.75 after May 1).

Florida LLC filing fee: $125

The filing fee is what Florida charges to file your Articles of Organization, the document that creates the company. Florida charges $125. It is the one cost nobody can avoid: it is the same whether you file directly with the state or hire a service, and no legitimate service can waive it. Which form Florida uses, where it is filed and what it asks: how to register an LLC in Florida.

Florida posts its current processing times on its own site; we do not quote one.

Florida does not sell expedited review of the formation filing.

By filing fee, Florida ranks 32 of 51 jurisdictions, cheapest first; the median state charges $100.

Five-year Florida LLC cost: $818.75

$125 to form, plus $138.75 a year in report fees for five years, comes to $818.75 paid to Florida over five years, assuming every report is filed on time. One late report adds $400. Taxes on the company's income, licenses and a registered agent service are separate.

What the Florida state fee does not include

The filing fee buys the state's approval of the Articles of Organization and nothing else. These are the costs that sit outside it.

• Registered agent. Florida requires one, with a street address in the state. Serving as your own agent is free; the address becomes public record. Our registered agent service can be added in the application. Florida registered agent requirements.
• Operating agreement. Not filed with the state and free if you write it yourself. Our self-help template is available after checkout.
• Business licenses and permits. Set by the city, county or licensing board for your line of business, not by the formation filing. Many Florida LLCs need none; a restaurant, contractor or salon usually needs several.
• Taxes. An LLC's income is taxed through its owners' returns unless it elects otherwise, and sales tax or employer registrations are separate state accounts with no formation fee attached.
• Filing service. Our fee is itemized on the checkout review screen before you pay, with same-day submission as an option. The state fee is identical either way.

How to pay less for a Florida LLC

• File the Articles of Organization yourself. Florida takes it online at dos.fl.gov for the $125 state fee alone.
• Be your own registered agent if you have a Florida street address and are there during business hours. The trade-off is privacy: the address goes on the public record.
• Write your own operating agreement. No state charges for it and Florida does not file it.
• File the Annual Report on time. A late one costs $400 more, and a missed one leads to dissolution and a reinstatement bill of $238.75.
• Form where you do business. An LLC that operates in Florida but is formed elsewhere must register in Florida as a foreign LLC anyway, paying Florida's registration fee and its recurring report on top of the home state's.

How Florida compares

By filing fee, Florida is number 32 of 51 jurisdictions, cheapest first. The filing fee is paid once; the recurring line is what separates states over time.

State fees verified October 2026 and set by the state, not by us.

Every state's fee is in LLC cost by state, and the case for and against forming elsewhere is in cheapest states to form an LLC.

Filing yourself vs. using us

Filing directly with Florida costs only the state's own fee: $125. The state takes formations at dos.fl.gov. Through us, you pay our service fee plus the Florida filing & processing, for the name check, the Articles of Organization prepared and submitted, the approved documents emailed to you and Florida's deadlines in writing. Both lines are itemized on the checkout review screen before you pay.

Sources

State fees verified October 2026; page last updated November 1, 2026. The figures above are read from Florida's own fee schedule, forms and statutes:

• dos.fl.gov (dos.fl.gov/sunbiz/start-business/efile/fl-llc/instructions/)
• dos.fl.gov (dos.fl.gov/sunbiz/forms/fees/)
• dos.fl.gov (dos.fl.gov/sunbiz/start-business/efile/fl-llc/)
• files.floridados.gov (files.floridados.gov/media/702398/cr2e047.pdf)
• services.sunbiz.org (Florida Division of Corporations (Sunbiz), Annual Report filing)