How Much Does an Idaho LLC Cost in 2026?

Idaho LLC one-time costs

What Idaho 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.

Idaho LLC ongoing costs

What Idaho 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.

Idaho LLC annual fee

Idaho's recurring requirement: free report required yearly, due end of anniversary month. Idaho calls the filing the Annual Report, and it goes to the Idaho Secretary of State at sosbiz.idaho.gov. Idaho keys the deadline to your own formation date: at the end of the anniversary month, every year. In the state's words: End of anniversary month.

If you file late: No flat late fee published; a missed report still risks loss of good standing. After one missed report, Idaho administratively dissolves the LLC, and the state's total to reinstate it at that point is $30.

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

Other recurring obligations

• Annual report via SOSBiz. Each year by the end of the month of formation (anniversary month), starting the year after formation. $0.

Idaho LLC filing fee: $100

The filing fee is what Idaho charges to file your Certificate of Organization, the document that creates the company. Idaho charges $100. 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 Idaho uses, where it is filed and what it asks: how to register an LLC in Idaho.

Idaho's published processing time: About 7-10 days from filing (sos.idaho.gov)

Faster review from the state: +$40 expedited; +$100 same day (form instructions); same-day requests by 1 p.m. MT.

By filing fee, Idaho ranks 18 of 51 jurisdictions, cheapest first; the median state charges $100.

Five-year Idaho LLC cost: $100

$100 to form, plus nothing recurring from the state, comes to $100 paid to Idaho over five years, assuming every report is filed on time. Taxes on the company's income, licenses and a registered agent service are separate.

What the Idaho state fee does not include

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

• Registered agent. Idaho 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. Idaho 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 Idaho 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 an Idaho LLC

• File the Certificate of Organization yourself. Idaho takes it online at sosbiz.idaho.gov for the $100 state fee alone.
• Be your own registered agent if you have an Idaho 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 Idaho does not file it.
• File the Annual Report on time. Idaho charges no late fee, but a missed report still leads to loss of good standing and dissolution.
• 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 Idaho but is formed elsewhere must register in Idaho as a foreign LLC anyway, paying Idaho's registration fee and its recurring report on top of the home state's.

How Idaho compares

By filing fee, Idaho is number 18 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 Idaho costs only the state's own fee: $100. The state takes formations at sosbiz.idaho.gov. Through us, you pay our service fee plus the Idaho filing & processing, for the name check, the Certificate of Organization prepared and submitted, the approved documents emailed to you and Idaho'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 Idaho's own fee schedule, forms and statutes:

• archive.sos.idaho.gov (archive.sos.idaho.gov/CORP/forms/LLC/LLC%20Cert%20Org.pdf)
• sos.idaho.gov (sos.idaho.gov/business-forms/)
• sos.idaho.gov (sos.idaho.gov/business-resources/business-faq/)
• sos.idaho.gov (sos.idaho.gov/business-services/)
• legislature.idaho.gov (legislature.idaho.gov/statutesrules/idstat/title30/t30ch21/sect30-21-213/)
• business.idaho.gov (business.idaho.gov/)
• sosbiz.idaho.gov (Idaho Secretary of State, Annual Report filing)