How Much Does an Indiana LLC Cost in 2026?

Indiana LLC one-time costs

What Indiana 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.

Indiana LLC ongoing costs

What Indiana 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.

Indiana LLC annual fee

Indiana's recurring requirement: $32 every 2 years, due end of anniversary month (biennial). Because it is every two years, the yearly cost is half the listed fee: $16 a year. Indiana calls the filing the Business Entity Report, and it goes to the Indiana Secretary of State at inbiz.in.gov. Indiana keys the deadline to your own formation date: at the end of the anniversary month, every second year. In the state's words: End of anniversary month (biennial).

If you file late: No flat late fee published; a missed report still risks loss of good standing. After one missed report, Indiana administratively dissolves the LLC, and the state's total to reinstate it at that point is $63.

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

Other recurring obligations

• Business Entity Report. Every 2 years, by end of the formation anniversary month; first one due 2 years after formation. $32 online / $50 paper.
• Annual personal property filing with the county assessor, if applicable. annually. $0 filing.

Indiana LLC filing fee: $95

The filing fee is what Indiana charges to file your Articles of Organization, the document that creates the company. Indiana charges $95. 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 Indiana uses, where it is filed and what it asks: how to register an LLC in Indiana.

Indiana posts its current processing times on its own site; we do not quote one.

By filing fee, Indiana ranks 15 of 51 jurisdictions, cheapest first; the median state charges $100.

Five-year Indiana LLC cost: $175

$95 to form, plus $16 a year in report fees averaged over the two-year cycle for five years, comes to $175 paid to Indiana 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 Indiana 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. Indiana 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. Indiana 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 Indiana 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 Indiana LLC

• File the Articles of Organization yourself. Indiana takes it online at inbiz.in.gov for the $95 state fee alone.
• Be your own registered agent if you have an Indiana 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 Indiana does not file it.
• File the Business Entity Report on time. Indiana charges no late fee, but a missed report still leads to loss of good standing and dissolution.
• Form where you do business. An LLC that operates in Indiana but is formed elsewhere must register in Indiana as a foreign LLC anyway, paying Indiana's registration fee and its recurring report on top of the home state's.

How Indiana compares

By filing fee, Indiana is number 15 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 Indiana costs only the state's own fee: $95. The state takes formations at inbiz.in.gov. Through us, you pay our service fee plus the Indiana filing & processing, for the name check, the Articles of Organization prepared and submitted, the approved documents emailed to you and Indiana'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 Indiana's own fee schedule, forms and statutes:

• forms.in.gov (forms.in.gov/Download.aspx?id=16989)
• inbiz.in.gov (inbiz.in.gov/business-filings/business-entityreport)
• inbiz.in.gov (inbiz.in.gov/Inbiz/FeeCalculator/Index)
• in.gov (in.gov/sos/business/files/Regulatory-Analysis-Business-Entity-LSA-25-155-OMB-202...)
• inbiz.in.gov (inbiz.in.gov/business-filings/registration)
• inbiz.in.gov (inbiz.in.gov/start-business)