How Much Does a Georgia LLC Cost in 2026?

Georgia LLC one-time costs

What Georgia 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.

Georgia LLC ongoing costs

What Georgia 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.

Georgia LLC annual fee

Georgia's recurring requirement: $60/year, due April 1. Georgia calls the filing the Annual Registration, and it goes to the Georgia Secretary of State, Corporations Division at ecorp.sos.ga.gov. The Annual Registration is due April 1, every year.

If you file late: $25 added by the state for a late report. After one missed report, Georgia administratively dissolves the LLC, and the state's total to reinstate it at that point is $260.

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

Other recurring obligations

• Annual registration with Secretary of State. Jan 1 - Apr 1 of the calendar year after formation, then every year. $60; $25 late penalty after April 1.

Georgia LLC filing fee: $110

The filing fee is what Georgia charges to file your Articles of Organization, the document that creates the company. Georgia charges $110. 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 Georgia uses, where it is filed and what it asks: how to register an LLC in Georgia.

Georgia's published processing time: About 7 business days online; about 15 business days by mail.

Faster review from the state: +$120 two business days; +$275 same business day (submitted before noon); +$1,200 one hour (mail or in person only).

By filing fee, Georgia ranks 29 of 51 jurisdictions, cheapest first; the median state charges $100.

Five-year Georgia LLC cost: $410

$110 to form, plus $60 a year in report fees for five years, comes to $410 paid to Georgia over five years, assuming every report is filed on time. One late report adds $25. Taxes on the company's income, licenses and a registered agent service are separate.

What the Georgia 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. Georgia 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. Georgia 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 Georgia 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 Georgia LLC

• File the Articles of Organization yourself. Georgia takes it online at ecorp.sos.ga.gov for the $110 state fee alone.
• Be your own registered agent if you have a Georgia 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 Georgia does not file it.
• File the Annual Registration on time. A late one costs $25 more, and a missed one leads to dissolution and a reinstatement bill of $260.
• Skip state expedite unless a date depends on it. The state's standard queue costs nothing extra.
• Form where you do business. An LLC that operates in Georgia but is formed elsewhere must register in Georgia as a foreign LLC anyway, paying Georgia's registration fee and its recurring report on top of the home state's.

How Georgia compares

By filing fee, Georgia is number 29 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 Georgia costs only the state's own fee: $110. The state takes formations at ecorp.sos.ga.gov. Through us, you pay our service fee plus the Georgia filing & processing, for the name check, the Articles of Organization prepared and submitted, the approved documents emailed to you and Georgia'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 Georgia's own fee schedule, forms and statutes:

• georgia.gov (georgia.gov/register-llc)
• georgia.gov (georgia.gov/renew-llc)
• georgia.gov (georgia.gov/reserve-business-name)
• ecorp.sos.ga.gov (ecorp.sos.ga.gov/)