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Filing MapperRoutes through every state's LLC paperwork, priced leg by leg.

The LLC filing route map

A route map for filing an LLC in every state

Every state is drawn here as a route with legs and checkpoints: the official LLC fees, the report deadlines and the agent rules, each tied to the page it came from. States are ranked by toll, and every route ends with the services that will travel it for you.

Surveyed by the Filing Mapper team

The map at a glance

Routes mapped
50
Three routes per state
Lightest three-year state toll
$50
Arizona and others
Heaviest three-year state toll
$2,490
California

Ten routes with the lightest state tolls

RankStateThree-year state fees
1stArizona$50
1stMississippi$50
1stMissouri$50
1stNew Mexico$50
5thMontana$75
6thHawaii$76
7thIowa$80
8thUtah$95
9thOhio$99
10thColorado$100

See all 50 routes ranked

Nationwide routes

Methodology

How providers are ranked

  1. Three-year charge on the route (35%): What the service bills across years one to three beyond the state fee, from its published first-year and renewal prices.
  2. Steps the service takes over (27%): How many of the route's repeating steps are in the price: the agent on record, the periodic report and the EIN application.
  3. Year-two price (13%): Whether the service holds its price after the first year or raises it.
  4. Fit with the state's route (13%): How well the plan follows the state's report cycle, late penalties and office address rules.
  5. Fee line separation (12%): Whether the state fee is shown as its own line and billed at cost.
Read the method

Three routes for every state

  • 1

    LLC cost guides

    The entry fee, the recurring checkpoint, the late penalty, the three-year toll and the rank among 50, with a calculator and our provider picks.

    LLC costs by state
  • 2

    Registered agent guides

    Who can serve as agent, address rules and the yearly state toll, with the agents we pick.

    Registered agent rules by state
  • 3

    Foreign LLC guides

    The entry fee, the form, the home-state clearance and what skipping registration costs.

    Foreign LLC fees by state

All fifty routes