Sourced from Florida's Division of Corporations (Sunbiz) and current as of July 10, 2026.
A Florida LLC costs $125 to form, split between a $100 filing fee and a $25 registered agent designation charge, both paid to the Division of Corporations. That is the entire bill on day one. Curious how Florida stacks up against other states before you file? Run the numbers in the site's LLC cost calculator first.
Sunbiz splits the $125 into two named charges rather than one flat number: $100 for the Articles of Organization itself, and $25 to name a registered agent on the public record, whether that agent is you or a hired service. The $25 is a one-time part of the filing, not a yearly service charge; if you later hire a commercial registered agent, that company bills you separately and on its own schedule.
Florida does not bill the $138.75 annual report in the same calendar year an LLC is formed. Form in April 2026, and Sunbiz doesn't expect your first annual report until the window between January 1 and May 1, 2027. New owners sometimes assume the $138.75 is stacked onto the formation cost immediately; it isn't, it just arrives on the following year's calendar.
A landscaper forms his Florida LLC in July 2026. He pays $125 that month and nothing else for the rest of the year, since his first annual report isn't due until the January to May window in 2027. When April 2027 comes around, he files before the May 1 cutoff and pays $138.75. His combined cost across roughly ten months of 2026 and the first four months of 2027 is $263.75. Had he waited until June 2027 to file that first report, the same report would have cost him $538.75 instead, a $400 penalty for being one month late.
Formation year has no annual report due. Source: Florida Division of Corporations LLC fee schedule.
Florida sits in the middle of the pack on paper: cheaper to open than Texas at $300 or California at $70 plus its $800 tax, but not the rock-bottom $35 to $50 filing fees found in Montana or Arizona. Where Florida stands out is the flat, modest recurring cost. There's no revenue threshold to track like Texas, no minimum tax regardless of income like California, just a fixed $138.75 due on a fixed date. That predictability is worth something even though the number itself is not the cheapest around.
These figures cover the Division of Corporations' own charges only. They don't include a fictitious name registration if the LLC operates under a name different from what's on file, a county or city business tax receipt (most Florida counties require one), or the cost of hiring a formation service to file for you instead of using Sunbiz directly. An LLC formed in another state but doing business in Florida also owes a separate foreign qualification fee, which is not part of the numbers above.
Florida's Division of Corporations charges $125 total to file: $100 for the Articles of Organization plus a $25 registered agent designation fee. That is the only cost due at formation.
No. Florida's annual report is due the calendar year after formation, filed between January 1 and May 1, and it costs $138.75. An LLC formed in mid-2026 owes its first annual report between January 1 and May 1, 2027, not in 2026.
Sunbiz adds an automatic $400 late fee, bringing the total for that report to $538.75. Filing gets much more expensive the moment the calendar turns to May 2.
Yes, the $25 is a one-time fee paid at formation to designate a registered agent on the state record. It is different from a commercial registered agent service, which charges its own separate yearly fee if you choose to hire one instead of serving as your own agent.
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