Which state are you pricing? The eight below are the ones founders actually choose between. All 51 jurisdictions are in the list underneath.
Wyoming Delaware New Mexico Florida Texas Nevada Montana Ohio
Or any of the 51 Alabama Alaska Arizona Arkansas California Colorado Connecticut Delaware Florida Georgia Hawaii Idaho Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Mississippi Missouri Montana Nebraska Nevada New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico New York North Carolina North Dakota Ohio Oklahoma Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island South Carolina South Dakota Tennessee Texas Utah Vermont Virginia Washington West Virginia Wisconsin Wyoming District of Columbia Do you have a physical presence in a US state? An office, employees, inventory in a warehouse, or you living there. This decides more of the total than the state does.
No presence anywhere in the US No office, staff, inventory or residence. The state is a free choice. Yes, in this state Then this is the right state to form in, whatever it costs. Yes, in a different state This is the answer that changes the total. Read the nexus warning.
Registered agent Every state requires one. You can only be your own if you have a street address there and are behind it during business hours.
Use my own address Not available: you have no address in this state, so a service is the only option. Pay a registered agent service $50–$150 a year. A market range, not a published fee. How many members? Some states charge per member, and the number decides which federal return the company files.
Anything else you are being sold? Each of these is optional and each is a range, because nobody publishes a fixed price for them.
EIN filing help $50–$150 The number itself is free from the IRS. What you are buying is someone to prepare Form SS-4 and chase the fax — worth considering without an SSN, worth nothing with one. Operating agreement $0–$300 A template costs nothing. The top of this range is a lawyer drafting departure and deadlock clauses for several members, which is the only version worth paying for. Virtual business address $120–$480/yr A commercial street address with mail scanning, quoted here for a year. It is not a registered agent, though most vendors sell them in the same basket. Expedited filing $25–$100 Paid to the filing office rather than to a service. Expedite fees are not part of our fee dataset, so treat this as indicative and check the state's own schedule.
Answer the presence question and the full breakdown appears here. It is the question that moves the number most, so the tool will not guess it for you.