Every official charge for forming an LLC in Montana 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 | $35 |
| First-year minimum total | $35 |
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 | $35 |
Montana Secretary of State Business Services Filing Fees page, Limited Liability Companies (Domestic Filings): 'Articles Of Organization $35.00 plus $50.00 for each series member named in the series LLC'. A single fee is published with no separate online/paper amount.
File through the official portal above — third-party filing services charge extra for the same filing.
Articles of Organization: Filed with the Montana Secretary of State, Business Services, through the online filing portal biz.sosmt.gov. Fee schedule adds $50 for each series member named in a series LLC.
Montana requires a annual report — fee No fee.
File between January 1 and April 15 each year; the fee is waived for reports filed on or before April 15, and a report filed after April 15 costs $35.
Secretary of State fee page lists for LLCs 'Annual Report Prior To April 15th WAIVED' and 'Annual Report After April 15th $35.00'. The Secretary of State help center confirms annual reports are required for all LLCs and that the office waives the fee for annual reports filed between January 1 and April 15. The fee shown is the on-time (waived) amount of $0.
Once the LLC is formed, these pages work out what it keeps: Montana Tax Brackets · Montana Income Tax Calculator · Montana Paycheck Calculator.
Montana's first-year minimum of $35 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://sosmt.gov/business/fees/
https://help.sosmt.gov/en/article/how-do-i-file-my-annual-report-ffxyld/
Forming an LLC in Montana? 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 Montana in 2026: a $35 filing fee for the Articles of Organization, a first-year minimum of $35, 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 Montana: you pay $35 to file the Articles of Organization with the Montana Secretary of State. With the mandatory year-one charges counted, your first-year minimum is $35; after that the recurring state cost is No-fee 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 $35 at the cheapest channel. Counting the mandatory state charges that fall due in year one, the first-year minimum is $35. Registered-agent services and local licences are extra and are not state charges.
Montana requires a annual report costing nothing — there is no fee. File between January 1 and April 15 each year; the fee is waived for reports filed on or before April 15, and a report filed after April 15 costs $35.
Articles of Organization; Registered agent / registered office on file; Annual 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 Montana Secretary of State, Business Services. Phone: 406-444-2034. No email address is published — the office takes enquiries through the contact form on its website. File online at https://biz.sosmt.gov.
No — beyond the Articles of Organization filing fee and the annual report, Montana records no other mandatory state charges for a standard LLC.
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