Every official charge for forming an LLC in Florida 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 | $125 |
| First-year minimum total | $125 |
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.
| Standard filing | $125 |
Division of Corporations LLC fee schedule: 'New Florida/Foreign LLC — Filing Fee (Required) $100.00; Registered Agent Fee (Required) $25.00; Total Fee For New Florida/Foreign LLC $125.00'. The $125 total is the standard fee; no separate online vs. paper amount is published on the fee schedule.
File through the official portal above — third-party filing services charge extra for the same filing.
Articles of Organization: Filed with the Florida Department of State, Division of Corporations (Sunbiz), online or by mail using the Division's Articles of Organization form.
Once the LLC is formed, these pages work out what it keeps: Florida Tax Brackets · Florida Income Tax Calculator · Florida Paycheck Calculator.
Florida requires a annual report — fee $138.75.
Annual report must be filed each year between January 1 and May 1 to maintain active status; reports filed after May 1 incur the $400 late fee (total $538.75).
Division fee schedule lists 'Annual Report (& Supplemental Fee) $138.75' and 'Annual Report (Received after May 1) $538.75'. The Division's annual report page confirms a $400 late fee applies to LLCs paying after May 1, and that the report is required each year whether or not changes are needed.
Florida's first-year minimum of $125 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://dos.fl.gov/sunbiz/forms/fees/llc-fees/
https://dos.fl.gov/sunbiz/forms/limited-liability-company
https://dos.fl.gov/sunbiz/about-us/faqs
Forming an LLC in Florida? 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 Florida in 2026: a $125 filing fee for the Articles of Organization, a first-year minimum of $125, 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 Florida: you pay $125 to file the Articles of Organization with the Florida Department of State. With the mandatory year-one charges counted, your first-year minimum is $125; after that the recurring state cost is $138.75 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 $125 at the cheapest channel. Counting the mandatory state charges that fall due in year one, the first-year minimum is $125. Registered-agent services and local licences are extra and are not state charges.
Florida requires a annual report costing $138.75. Annual report must be filed each year between January 1 and May 1 to maintain active status; reports filed after May 1 incur the $400 late fee (total $538.75).
Articles of Organization; Registered agent designation. You will also need a free EIN from the IRS — a federal step that is the same in every state.
You file with the Florida Department of State, Division of Corporations (Sunbiz). Phone: (850) 245-6000. No email address is published — the office takes enquiries through the contact form on its website. File online at https://efile.sunbiz.org.
No — beyond the Articles of Organization filing fee and the annual report, Florida records no other mandatory state charges for a standard LLC.
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