Every official charge for forming an LLC in Colorado in 2026: the filing fee, the other mandatory state costs, the documents you need, and the filing office's own contact details — taken from the state's published sources, not from a filing service.
| Charge | Amount |
|---|---|
| Filing fee — Articles of Organization | $50 |
| First-year minimum total | $50 |
The total is the cheapest filing channel plus the fixed mandatory charges that fall due in year one. Variable charges are listed at “No fixed fee” and are not folded into the total.
| Online filing | $50 |
Online fee $50.00; paper fee is 'n/a' on the official fee schedule — Colorado LLC Articles of Organization are filed online only, so the standard fee is the online fee.
File through the official portal above — third-party filing services charge extra for the same filing.
Articles of Organization: Articles of Organization for a Limited Liability Company, filed online only with the Colorado Secretary of State.
Colorado requires a annual report — fee $25.
Due by the last day of the second month following the entity's Periodic Report Month (shown on the entity's Summary page). Entities are given five months to file — the report can be filed from two months before the Periodic Report Month through that due date; if not filed by the due date the entity becomes Noncompliant and the $50 late filing penalty is assessed (Secretary of State Business FAQs).
Colorado calls its annual report the Periodic Report. Fee of $25.00 (online only, paper n/a) plus a $50.00 Periodic Report Late Filing Penalty, per the Secretary of State's Business Organizations Fee Schedule (revised July 1, 2024).
Once the LLC is formed, these pages work out what it keeps: Colorado Tax Brackets · Colorado Income Tax Calculator · Colorado Paycheck Calculator.
Colorado's first-year minimum of $50 sits in the full ranking of all 51 jurisdictions — the cheapest first year is Montana at $35 and the most expensive is California at $870.
Official sources — fees verified 3 November 2026:
https://coloradosos.gov/pubs/info_center/fees/business.html
https://www.coloradosos.gov/pubs/business/FAQs/status.html
Forming an LLC in Colorado? This page lists every official state charge for 2026 — filing fee, mandatory extras, the annual report and the documents — with the filing office's own phone, website and portal.
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Every official charge for forming and keeping an LLC in Colorado in 2026: a $50 filing fee for the Articles of Organization, a first-year minimum of $50, the documents the state asks for, and the filing office's own phone, website and portal — read from the state's published sources, not a filing service's price list.
Forming an LLC in Colorado: you pay $50 to file the Articles of Organization with the Colorado Secretary of State. With the mandatory year-one charges counted, your first-year minimum is $50; after that the recurring state cost is $25 annual report.
Every figure comes from the state's own published fee schedule or statute (the page lists its official sources) and was checked on 3 November 2026. The first-year minimum is the cheapest filing channel plus the fixed mandatory charges that fall due in year one; annual report fees fall due after year one, and variable charges such as newspaper publication have no fixed amount, so both are shown separately rather than folded into the total.
Filing the Articles of Organization costs $50 at the cheapest channel. Counting the mandatory state charges that fall due in year one, the first-year minimum is $50. Registered-agent services and local licences are extra and are not state charges.
Colorado requires a annual report costing $25. Due by the last day of the second month following the entity's Periodic Report Month (shown on the entity's Summary page). Entities are given five months to file — the report can be filed from two months before the Periodic Report Month through that due date; if not filed by the due date the entity becomes Noncompliant and the $50 late filing penalty is assessed (Secretary of State Business FAQs).
Articles of Organization; Registered agent; Periodic Report. You will also need a free EIN from the IRS — a federal step that is the same in every state.
You file with the Colorado Secretary of State, Business Organizations. Phone: 303-894-2200. No email address is published — the office takes enquiries through the contact form on its website. File online at https://www.coloradosos.gov.
No — beyond the Articles of Organization filing fee and the annual report, Colorado records no other mandatory state charges for a standard LLC.
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