How much does it cost to start an LLC in Arizona?

The Arizona Corporation Commission charges $50 to file Articles of Organization (form L010), or $85 with expedited review. Optional name reservation is $10. Budget separately for a newspaper notice if your statutory agent's street address is outside Maricopa and Pima Counties, currently the two counties where the Commission posts the notice online for free. The newspaper sets that charge, not the state.

Does an Arizona LLC have to file an annual report?

No. Arizona LLCs file no annual report, pay no annual fee to the Corporation Commission and owe no state franchise tax. You must keep a valid statutory agent on file, though. Failing to do so exposes the LLC to administrative dissolution under Arizona law, with a $100 reinstatement fee.

Do I have to publish my Arizona LLC in a newspaper?

Only if your statutory agent's street address is outside Maricopa and Pima Counties, currently the only Arizona counties over 800,000 people. Elsewhere, Arizona law requires three consecutive newspaper publications within 60 days after the Commission files your Articles; in a county over 800,000 people the Commission posts the notice in its online database at no cost instead. Newspaper rates are set by each paper, not the state.

How fast can I get an Arizona LLC approved?

Paying $85 instead of $50 buys expedited review, and the Commission's accelerated services add $100 for next-business-day examination, $200 for same-day (received before 10am) or $400 for two-hour service (8am to 3pm). Standard turnaround varies and is posted live on the Arizona Business Center.

Arizona LLC Cost (2026)

By Edmond Hui · Fees verified July 29, 2026 against the Arizona Corporation Commission fee schedule

In Arizona, the first-year state cost of an LLC is $50, before any registered-agent service. Forming an LLC in Arizona costs $50 to file the Articles of Organization with the state, Arizona requires no annual report.

Bar chart of LLC costs in Arizona: $50 in unavoidable state charges in the first year and $0 a year after that. Arizona requires no annual report. In Arizona, a newspaper notice is required unless the statutory agent's address is currently in Maricopa or Pima County. — Arizona files no annual report, so the recurring figure is driven entirely by state taxes and fees. Source: Arizona's published filing fee schedule, verified July 2026.

Articles of Organization$50

Annual reportNone

First-year state cost$50

Five-year state cost$50

How much does it cost to form an LLC in Arizona?

Arizona LLCs are formed with the Arizona Corporation Commission, not the Secretary of State, and Articles of Organization (form L010) cost $50, or $85 with expedited review, under the Commission's fee schedule revised March 2026. There is no annual report and no franchise tax for Arizona LLCs, making it one of the cheapest states to maintain. The offsetting cost is publication: Arizona law requires notice to run three consecutive times in a newspaper in the statutory agent's county within 60 days, though where the statutory agent's street address is currently in Maricopa or Pima County, the Commission posts the notice online for free and no newspaper is needed. Accelerated processing is priced separately at $100 next-day, $200 same-day and $400 for two-hour service, name reservation is $10, a Certificate of Good Standing is $10, and foreign LLC registration is $150.

Which fees does an Arizona LLC pay, and how often?

Cost	Amount	How often	Charged by
Articles of Organization (L010)	$50	One time	Arizona Corporation Commission
Newspaper notice (only if your statutory agent's address is outside Maricopa and Pima Counties, currently)	N/A	One time	The newspaper you choose, in your statutory agent's county
Required state cost, first year	$50	N/A	N/A
Registered agent service (optional)	$50 to $300	Every year	Commercial provider
Expedite and special handling fees in our record: Expedited processing ($35), Next Day Service (received before 5pm) ($100), Same Day Service (received before 10am) ($200), 2-Hour Service (available 8am-3pm) ($400)	$35 to $400, by option	One time	Arizona Corporation Commission
Name reservation (optional)	$10	One time	Arizona Corporation Commission
Certificate of good standing (optional)	$10	Per copy	Arizona Corporation Commission

The fee is $50 whether filed online through eCorp or on paper; expedited review brings the total to $85.

: Arizona imposes no franchise tax and no annual entity-level minimum tax on LLCs.

Arizona law requires that within 60 days after the Commission FILES the Articles of Organization, either (1) a notice of the filing is published in a newspaper of general circulation in the county of the statutory agent's street address for three consecutive publications, or (2) where that county has a population over 800,000 (currently Maricopa and Pima, per the Commission's own form L010i), the Commission enters the information into its own database, which a separate Arizona statute bars it from charging for. Route (2) is a statutory substitute, not an exemption. The affidavit of publication is OPTIONAL: the statute says one 'may be filed with the commission', the Commission's FAQ confirms 'although it is not required, many customers choose to file' it, and the Commission's LLC fee schedule carries no fee for it. Arizona publishes NO official dollar figure for the newspaper cost; under Arizona's legal-advertising statute the maximum is a UNIT price, not a total: the rate 'per column inch, per insertion' 'charged for legal advertising as shown by the local rate card of the newspaper in which publication is to be made'. Total cost is therefore that rate times the notice's column inches times three insertions, which is why no total is sourceable. The only other subsection of that statute is an indirect control: the type 'shall not be larger than the regular body type of the newspaper in which it is published', so a paper cannot inflate column inches with larger type. Still in force: the requirement was carried forward into the current LLC act by a 2018 Arizona law effective 2019-09-01 (the same act repealed the old LLC chapter 'from and after August 31, 2020', so that chapter was still law on 2020-08-31 and the repeal operated from 2020-09-01). It was NOT repealed in 2023: no 2023 Arizona act amended the publication provision. Read verbatim from azleg.gov on 2026-09-01. In substance, the provision says that within sixty days after the commission files the articles of organization, one of two things must occur: under route (1), a notice of the filing must be published in a newspaper of general circulation in the county of the statutory agent's street address for three consecutive publications containing the required information, and an affidavit evidencing the publication may be filed with the commission; under route (2), the commission must input the information regarding the approval into its database if the statutory agent's street address is in a county with a population of more than eight hundred thousand persons. Note the LLC test is IN route (2) itself, the statutory agent's street address, and the database statute states it again alongside a DIFFERENT test for corporations (known place of business). Applying the corporation test to an LLC is a common error and gives the wrong answer whenever the two addresses are in different counties. 'Either of the following must occur' and 'the commission shall input' are why route 2 is a substitute and not an exemption; the provision never says 'exempt'.

Registered agent is listed separately because it is a commercial service, not a state charge. Commercial registered-agent services, not a state charge. Range and $125 midpoint match the assumption used by /tools/llc-true-cost. Most states let you serve as your own registered agent at no cost if you have a physical in-state address. Run your own numbers in the true-cost calculator. For what formation services charge on top of these state fees, see the best LLC services in Arizona.

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What does an Arizona LLC cost over five years?

State charges only in the first column; the second adds a registered-agent service at the $125/yr market midpoint.

Period	State cost only	With registered agent
Year 1 (formation + first filing)	$50	$175
Each year after	$0/yr	$125/yr
Five-year total	$50	$675

Is Arizona expensive compared with other states?

Arizona ranks 2nd cheapest of 50 states on first-year cost , $182.16 below the $232.16 national average. On ongoing annual cost it ranks 2nd.

Cheaper state	First-year cost	You would save
Montana	$35	$15

A cheaper filing fee elsewhere rarely saves money if you live and operate in Arizona. Doing business here with an out-of-state LLC generally means registering it as a foreign LLC in Arizona anyway. Paying both states. See foreign qualification in Arizona before forming elsewhere to save on fees.

What cost traps are specific to Arizona?

Filed with the Corporation Commission, not the Secretary of State

Arizona LLC formation documents go to the Arizona Corporation Commission at azcc.gov; the Arizona Secretary of State handles trade names and trademarks, not LLC formation.

Newspaper notice within 60 days unless your statutory agent's address is currently in Maricopa or Pima County

If your statutory agent's street address is in a county of 800,000 or fewer residents you must publish notice three consecutive times in a local newspaper within 60 days of approval and pay that newspaper's rate; the state charges nothing and publishes no price.

Do not publish before approval

The Commission instructs filers not to publish until the Articles are approved for filing, and its approval letter explains how to publish.

Frequently Asked Questions

: The Arizona Corporation Commission charges $50 to file Articles of Organization (form L010), or $85 with expedited review. Optional name reservation is $10. Budget separately for a newspaper notice if your statutory agent's street address is outside Maricopa and Pima Counties, currently the two counties where the Commission posts the notice online for free. The newspaper sets that charge, not the state.
: No. Arizona LLCs file no annual report, pay no annual fee to the Corporation Commission and owe no state franchise tax. You must keep a valid statutory agent on file, though. Failing to do so exposes the LLC to administrative dissolution under Arizona law, with a $100 reinstatement fee.
: Only if your statutory agent's street address is outside Maricopa and Pima Counties, currently the only Arizona counties over 800,000 people. Elsewhere, Arizona law requires three consecutive newspaper publications within 60 days after the Commission files your Articles; in a county over 800,000 people the Commission posts the notice in its online database at no cost instead. Newspaper rates are set by each paper, not the state.
: Paying $85 instead of $50 buys expedited review, and the Commission's accelerated services add $100 for next-business-day examination, $200 for same-day (received before 10am) or $400 for two-hour service (8am to 3pm). Standard turnaround varies and is posted live on the Arizona Business Center.

Where do these numbers come from?

Every fee above was checked against Arizona's own published sources on July 29, 2026 , the Arizona Corporation Commission fee schedule, the governing statute, and where a state-level tax applies, the state tax authority. Commercial formation-service pages were not used.

The first-year total is the Articles of Organization fee plus the first year of any recurring state charge. It leaves out the newspaper notice, for which the state publishes no rate. An LLC needs that notice unless its statutory agent's street address is currently in Maricopa or Pima County, where the state posts it online for free. Where a state's first report is not due until the following year, that is noted above. The five-year total is the filing fee plus five years of recurring charges, which avoids the timing question entirely. Registered-agent service is excluded from all state figures.

Sources

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Each entry below is a document recorded in our verified Arizona sources, and each entry says what the document is. Some statutory text is read from an accurate mirror rather than from the state's own host, and those say so. Where we hold the citation but no stable public link, the citation is printed on its own rather than pointed at a guessed address.

azcc.gov/docs/default-source/corps-files/fee-schedules/fee-schedule-llcs.pdf
azcc.gov/docs/default-source/corps-files/instructions/l010i-instructions-articles-of-organization.pdf
azleg.gov/ars/29/03201.htm
azcc.gov/corporations/fee-and-payment-info
Arizona statute: A.R.S. 29-3201(G) (publication requirement)
Arizona statute: A.R.S. 29-3708 (administrative dissolution)
Arizona statute: A.R.S. 29-3201(G) (publication requirement, quoted verbatim in our record)
Arizona statute: A.R.S. 29-3201(G)(2) (database route for counties over 800,000)
Arizona statute: A.R.S. 29-3201(B) (contents of the publication notice)
Arizona statute: A.R.S. 10-130(B) (no charge for the database entry; corporation test)
Arizona statute: A.R.S. Title 29 (fee schedule for LLC filings)
Arizona statute: A.R.S. 39-221(A) and 39-221(B) (legal advertising rates and type size)
Arizona bill: Laws 2018, Ch. 168 (carried the publication rule into the LLC act)
Arizona statute: former A.R.S. Title 29, Ch. 4 (repealed LLC chapter)

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Edmond Hui · Founder, MyStateLLC

Edmond Hui is a software engineer and serial entrepreneur based in New York who has founded multiple online businesses across e-commerce, media, and information publishing. Before transitioning into tech, he spent years as a commercial real estate professional closing deals totaling over 100,000 square feet, giving him firsthand experience with business formation and entity structuring. He built MyStateLLC to provide the free, state-specific LLC guidance he wished existed when forming his own companies.

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