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

$110.00, the Corporations Division fee schedule effective September 6, 2025 lists Articles of Organization (LLC) at a $100.00 base fee plus a $10.00 service charge, and shows the same $110.00 total for online and paper filings. Online filings are generally processed within 7 to 10 business days; paper filings take about 15 business days.

How much is the Georgia LLC annual registration fee?

$60.00 per year, a $50.00 base fee plus the $10.00 service charge, the same online or by mail. It is due between January 1 and April 1 every year. Georgia also lets you file for one, two or three consecutive years at once at the same rate per year, though prepaid fees are not refunded if the LLC ends early.

What is the penalty for filing a Georgia annual registration late?

$25.00. The fee schedule lists a flat "Penalty for Late Filing of Annual Registration" of $25.00, and your envelope must be postmarked by April 1 to avoid it. Beyond the fee, an LLC that fails to file with the correct fee "may be subjected to administrative dissolution or revocation" under Georgia law, and reinstatement then costs $260.00.

How fast can I get a Georgia LLC approved?

Standard online processing is 7 to 10 business days, and paper filings about 15. If you need it sooner, Georgia sells expedited review on top of the filing fee: $120.00 for two business days, $275.00 for same day (submitted by noon), or $1,200.00 for one hour, reviewed between 9:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. on business days.

Georgia LLC Cost (2026)

By Edmond Hui · Fees verified July 29, 2026 against the Georgia Secretary of State fee schedule

In Georgia, the first-year state cost of an LLC is $170, before any registered-agent service. Forming an LLC in Georgia costs $110 to file the Articles of Organization with the state, the Annual Registration costs $60 every year.

Bar chart of LLC costs in Georgia: $170 in unavoidable state charges in the first year and $60 a year after that. Georgia charges $60 for its annual report. — The recurring figure covers the annual report plus any flat state entity tax. Source: Georgia's published filing fee schedule, verified July 2026.

Articles of Organization$110

Annual Registration$60

First-year state cost$170

Five-year state cost$410

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

Under the Corporations Division fee schedule effective September 6, 2025, Georgia charges $110.00 to file Articles of Organization ($100.00 base + a $10.00 service charge) and $60.00 for the annual registration ($50.00 + $10.00), and the schedule shows the same totals in the online and paper columns, so the old $10 online discount is gone. The annual registration is due between January 1 and April 1 each year with a $25.00 late-filing penalty. Georgia lets an LLC prepay one, two or three calendar years at once, but those fees are non-refundable if the company ends early. Expedited service is steep: $120.00 for two business days, $275.00 same day and $1,200.00 for one hour, on top of the filing fee. Online annual registrations and Certificate of Existence requests are processed immediately with no expedite fee.

Which fees does a Georgia LLC pay, and how often?

Cost	Amount	How often	Charged by
Articles of Organization (CD 030)	$110	One time	Georgia Secretary of State
Annual Registration	$60	Every year	Georgia Secretary of State
Required state cost, first year	$170	N/A	N/A
Registered agent service (optional)	$50 to $300	Every year	Commercial provider
Expedite and special handling fees in our record: Two business days ($120), Same day (must be received by noon on a business day) ($275), One hour (reviewed 9:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m. on business days) ($1,200)	$120 to $1,200, by option	One time	Georgia Secretary of State
Name reservation (optional)	$35	One time	Georgia Secretary of State
Certificate of good standing (optional)	$20	Per copy	Georgia Secretary of State

The Corporations Division fee schedule effective September 6, 2025 lists "Articles of Organization (LLC)" as $100.00 base + $10.00 service charge = $110.00, and shows the identical $110.00 in both the "Online Filing" and "Paper Filing" columns, as of that schedule the $10.00 service charge applies to online filings too, so there is no longer an online discount.

Georgia's LLC statute lists the required contents of the articles of organization (organizer name and address, registered office street address and county with the registered agent's name, and the mailing address of the principal place of business) and imposes no newspaper publication step. Georgia's publication duty is a CORPORATE one and is easy to mistake for an LLC duty: Georgia law requires a corporation to request publication of a notice of incorporation no later than the next business day after filing its articles, published once a week for two consecutive weeks in the county's official organ or a newspaper of general circulation there, accompanied by a $40.00 payment. That section sits in the Georgia Business Corporation Code and does not reach LLCs. Nothing in the Corporations Division fee schedule or the Secretary of State's LLC filing rules imposes a publication step or fee on an LLC. The Georgia LLC act does carry a publication provision at the OTHER end of a company's life, and it is permissive: verified 2026-09-02, it provides that a dissolved limited liability company that has filed a statement of commencement of winding up may publish a request that persons with claims against the company present them, in the manner a companion section of the act prescribes.

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 Georgia.

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What does a Georgia 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)	$170	$295
Each year after	$60/yr	$185/yr
Five-year total	$410	$1,035

First filing timing: A Georgia Secretary of State rule says: "A newly formed domestic limited liability company or a newly qualified foreign limited liability company shall file an annual registration with the Secretary of State... between January 1 and April 1 of the year following the calendar year of the new registration filing." An LLC formed in November 2026 therefore owes its first $60.00 annual registration by April 1, 2027.

Is Georgia expensive compared with other states?

Georgia ranks 25th cheapest of 50 states on first-year cost , $62.16 below the $232.16 national average. On ongoing annual cost it ranks 31st.

Cheaper state	First-year cost	You would save
Montana	$35	$135
Arizona	$50	$120
Missouri	$50	$120

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

When is the Georgia filing deadline, and what happens if you miss it?

Annual Registration

Frequency	every year
Due	Between January 1 and April 1 of each year ("Each limited liability company registered to do business in this State shall, between January 1 and April 1 of each year, file an annual registration")
Fee	$60
Late penalty	$25

The fee schedule lists "Penalty for Late Filing of Annual Registration $25.00" for both online and paper. Georgia's guidance is that "your envelope must be postmarked by April 1 of the current year to avoid a $25 late fee."

Under a Georgia Secretary of State rule, a limited liability company that fails to file its annual registration with the correct fee "may be subjected to administrative dissolution or revocation" under Georgia's business code. Reinstatement of a domestic LLC costs $250.00 + $10.00 service charge = $260.00. A dishonored payment also carries a $30.00 charge and can trigger dissolution proceedings if not cured within 60 days.

Full Georgia annual report filing guide · Deadline calculator

What cost traps are specific to Georgia?

Online filing no longer saves the $10 service charge

The fee schedule effective September 6, 2025 shows the $10.00 service charge in both the Online Filing and Paper Filing columns, so Articles of Organization cost $110.00 and annual registration $60.00 either way. Guidance still quoting $100 online / $110 paper, including the georgia.gov "Register an LLC" page, is out of date.

Prepaid multi-year registrations are non-refundable

Georgia lets an LLC pay for up to three calendar years of annual registration at once, but a Secretary of State rule states the fees "will not be refunded if a limited liability company is terminated, dissolved, merged out of existence, withdrawn, administratively dissolved, or revoked prior to the end of an annual registration period."

First annual registration can land within weeks of forming

Under a Georgia Secretary of State rule the first annual registration is due between January 1 and April 1 of the year after the formation filing, so an LLC created in December 2026 owes its first $60.00 registration by April 1, 2027 or takes the $25.00 late penalty.

Frequently Asked Questions

: $110.00, the Corporations Division fee schedule effective September 6, 2025 lists Articles of Organization (LLC) at a $100.00 base fee plus a $10.00 service charge, and shows the same $110.00 total for online and paper filings. Online filings are generally processed within 7 to 10 business days; paper filings take about 15 business days.
: $60.00 per year, a $50.00 base fee plus the $10.00 service charge, the same online or by mail. It is due between January 1 and April 1 every year. Georgia also lets you file for one, two or three consecutive years at once at the same rate per year, though prepaid fees are not refunded if the LLC ends early.
: $25.00. The fee schedule lists a flat "Penalty for Late Filing of Annual Registration" of $25.00, and your envelope must be postmarked by April 1 to avoid it. Beyond the fee, an LLC that fails to file with the correct fee "may be subjected to administrative dissolution or revocation" under Georgia law, and reinstatement then costs $260.00.
: Standard online processing is 7 to 10 business days, and paper filings about 15. If you need it sooner, Georgia sells expedited review on top of the filing fee: $120.00 for two business days, $275.00 for same day (submitted by noon), or $1,200.00 for one hour, reviewed between 9:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. on business days.

Where do these numbers come from?

Every fee above was checked against Georgia's own published sources on July 29, 2026 , the Georgia Secretary of State 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. 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 Georgia 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.

sos.ga.gov/sites/default/files/forms/Reference%20-%20Filing%20Fees%20(Effective%209.6.2025).pdf
sos.ga.gov/how-to-guide/filing-fees-and-expedited-processing-document-filings
rules.sos.ga.gov/gac/590-7-22
georgia.gov/register-llc
georgia.gov/renew-llc
Georgia regulation: Ga. Comp. R. & Regs. 590-7-22-.02 (first annual registration)
Georgia regulation: Ga. Comp. R. & Regs. 590-7-22-.08 (dissolution for failure to file)
Georgia statute: Title 14 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated (administrative dissolution)
Georgia statute: O.C.G.A. 14-11-203 (contents of articles of organization)
Georgia statute: O.C.G.A. 14-2-201.1 (corporate notice of incorporation)
Georgia regulation: Ga. Comp. R. & Regs. Subject 590-7-22 (LLC filing rules)
Georgia statute: 14-11-608 (notice to claimants of a dissolved LLC)
Georgia statute: Code Section 14-11-609 (manner of publication)
Georgia regulation: Ga. Comp. R. & Regs. 590-7-22-.10 (no refund of prepaid registration fees)

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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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