Every official charge for forming an LLC in North Dakota 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 | $135 |
| First-year minimum total | $135 |
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 | $135 |
Secretary of State LLC page lists 'Registration (domestic and foreign) - $135'. 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 through the FirstStop Portal. This page covers the standard business LLC; North Dakota also has farming/ranching, authorized livestock farm and professional LLC types with some differing details.
North Dakota requires a annual report — fee $50.
Annual report filing deadline is November 15 each year for a business LLC (the Secretary of State's LLC page states 'Filing Deadline - November 15'). Farming or ranching LLCs and authorized livestock farm LLCs file by April 15 instead.
Fee and deadline are for a standard business LLC, domestic and foreign, per the Secretary of State's LLC page. Nonprofit LLCs are a different type with a $10 report due February 1 and are not covered here.
Once the LLC is formed, these pages work out what it keeps: North Dakota Tax Brackets · North Dakota Income Tax Calculator · North Dakota Paycheck Calculator.
North Dakota's first-year minimum of $135 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:
http://sos.nd.gov/business/business-services/business-structures/limited-liability-companies/professional-limited-liability-company-pllc
https://www.sos.nd.gov/business/business-services
https://www.sos.nd.gov/business/business-services/register-business
Forming an LLC in North Dakota? 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 North Dakota in 2026: a $135 filing fee for the Articles of Organization, a first-year minimum of $135, 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 North Dakota: you pay $135 to file the Articles of Organization with the North Dakota Secretary of State. With the mandatory year-one charges counted, your first-year minimum is $135; after that the recurring state cost is $50 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 $135 at the cheapest channel. Counting the mandatory state charges that fall due in year one, the first-year minimum is $135. Registered-agent services and local licences are extra and are not state charges.
North Dakota requires a annual report costing $50. Annual report filing deadline is November 15 each year for a business LLC (the Secretary of State's LLC page states 'Filing Deadline - November 15'). Farming or ranching LLCs and authorized livestock farm LLCs file by April 15 instead.
Articles of Organization; Registered agent with a physical address in North Dakota; Operating agreement. You will also need a free EIN from the IRS — a federal step that is the same in every state.
You file with the North Dakota Secretary of State, Business Services. Phone: (701) 328-2900. No email address is published — the office takes enquiries through the contact form on its website. File online at https://firststop.sos.nd.gov.
No — beyond the Articles of Organization filing fee and the annual report, North Dakota records no other mandatory state charges for a standard LLC.
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