How much does it cost to start an LLC in New York?

The Articles of Organization filing fee is $200, the same online or on paper and the same for a professional service LLC. On top of that, LLC Law Section 206 requires you to publish notice in two county-clerk-designated newspapers once a week for six successive weeks and then file a Certificate of Publication for a $50 fee, so the true cost to form is $250 plus whatever the two newspapers charge. Newspaper rates are set by the papers themselves and vary enormously by county, from roughly $200 total in a low-cost upstate county to far more in New York City.

Is the New York LLC filing fee $200 or $700?

$200. The New York Department of State's Division of Corporations fee schedule and its LLC formation guidance both state that the fee for filing the Articles of Organization is $200. The $700 figure is not a filing fee - it is an all-in estimate that bundles the $200 filing fee, the $50 Certificate of Publication fee, and an assumed newspaper publication cost. Only $200 goes to the Department of State to form the LLC.

What is the New York LLC publication requirement and what does it cost?

Under LLC Law Section 206 you must publish a copy of the Articles of Organization or a notice of formation once in each week for six successive weeks in two newspapers of the county - one daily, one weekly - designated by the county clerk, within 120 days of formation. You then file a Certificate of Publication with the newspapers' affidavits annexed, with a $50 filing fee. The newspaper charges are set by the newspapers, not the State: a Monroe County designated paper publishes $1 per agate line per week plus $10 per affidavit, which is roughly $100 per paper for six weeks, while New York County's mandatory daily quotes rates only on request. Miss the 120-day deadline and your LLC's authority to do business is suspended.

Does a New York LLC have to file an annual report?

Not annually - New York uses a Biennial Statement, filed every two years during the calendar month in which your Articles of Organization were originally filed, with a $9 fee. There is no dollar late penalty, but an LLC that does not file is flagged as past due in Department of State records and any Certificate of Status will show it, which can block certain transactions. Separately, most New York LLCs owe the Department of Taxation and Finance an annual filing fee of $25 to $4,500 on Form IT-204-LL, based on New York source gross income.

LLC Costs · NY

How Much Does an LLC Cost in New York?

By Edmond Hui · Fees verified July 29, 2026 against the New York Department of State, Division of Corporations fee schedule

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.

Forming an LLC in New York costs $200 to file the Articles of Organization with the state, the Biennial Statement costs $9 every two years, and the Partnership, LLC and LLP Annual Filing Fee adds at least $25 a year. That puts the first-year state cost at $479.50–$529.50, before any registered-agent service.

Articles of Organization$200

Biennial Statement$9

Partnership, LLC and LLP Annual Filing Fee$25/yr

First-year state cost$479.50–$529.50

Five-year state cost$597.50

What you actually pay in New York

The New York Articles of Organization filing fee is $200, per the Department of State's own fee schedule and its LLC formation guidance. What makes New York expensive is not that fee but LLC Law Section 206: publication in two county-clerk-designated newspapers once a week for six successive weeks within 120 days, plus a $50 Certificate of Publication filing fee, and the newspaper charges themselves are set by the newspapers rather than the State. The recurring Department of State cost is only a $9 Biennial Statement every two years, but the Department of Taxation and Finance separately collects a graduated annual filing fee on Form IT-204-LL running from $25 to $4,500 on New York source gross income. Expedited handling is $25 for 24-hour, $75 for same-day and $150 for 2-hour service, and is not available for Biennial Statements.

New York LLC fee breakdown

Cost	Amount	How often	Charged by
Articles of Organization (DOS-1336)	$200	One time	New York Department of State, Division of Corporations
Biennial Statement	$9	Every 2 years	New York Department of State, Division of Corporations
Partnership, LLC and LLP Annual Filing Fee (minimum)	$25	Every year	Department of Taxation and Finance
Newspaper publication	$200	One time	County-designated newspapers
Certificate of Publication filing	$50	One time	New York Department of State, Division of Corporations
Required state cost, first year	$479.50–$529.50	—	—
Registered agent service (optional)	$50–$300	Every year	Commercial provider
Expedited processing (optional) — 24-hour $25, Same day $75, 2-hour $150	$25+	One time	New York Department of State, Division of Corporations
Name reservation (optional)	$20	One time	New York Department of State, Division of Corporations
Certificate of good standing (optional)	$25	Per copy	New York Department of State, Division of Corporations

The fee is $200 whether filed online or on paper, and is the same $200 for a professional service LLC.

Partnership, LLC and LLP Annual Filing Fee: Graduated on the LLC's New York source gross income for the immediately preceding tax year: $25 for $0-$100,000; $50 for $100,001-$250,000; $175 for $250,001-$500,000; $500 for $500,001-$1,000,000; $1,500 for $1,000,001-$5,000,000; $3,000 for $5,000,001-$25,000,000; $4,500 above $25,000,000. An LLC treated as a disregarded entity pays a flat $25 if it has any income, gain, loss or deduction from New York sources.

LLC Law Section 206 requires publication once in each week for six successive weeks in two newspapers of the county (one daily, one weekly) designated by the county clerk, within 120 days after the effectiveness of the initial articles of organization, followed by a Certificate of Publication with the newspapers' affidavits annexed, filed with the Department of State for a $50 fee. cost_min of $200 is DERIVED, not quoted: the Rochester Business Journal, a Monroe County clerk-designated newspaper, publishes a rate of "$1 per agate line for each week they are published" plus "$10 for each affidavit requested," which for a roughly 15-agate-line Section 206 notice works out to about $100 per newspaper over six weeks and therefore roughly $200 across the two required newspapers in a low-cost upstate county. cost_max is NULL because no county-clerk-designated New York City newspaper publishes a rate card: the New York County Clerk's mandatory daily is the New York Law Journal, whose rates are quoted only on request, Schneps Media states only that "the fee for publication varies depending on which county you formed your business in," and county clerks expressly disclaim setting rates. The widely repeated Manhattan figures of roughly $1,500-$2,000 could not be traced to any primary source and are deliberately not asserted here.

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.

New York 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)	$479.50	$604.50
Each year after	$29.50	$154.50
Five-year total	$597.50	$1,222.50

First filing timing: The first Biennial Statement is due two years after formation, in the same calendar month the Articles of Organization were filed; a statement should not be filed before the calendar month in which it is due.

Is New York expensive compared with other states?

New York ranks 45th cheapest of 50 states on first-year cost — $244.97 above the $234.53 national average. On ongoing annual cost it ranks 23rd.

Cheaper state	First-year cost	You would save
Montana	$35	$444.50
Arizona	$50	$429.50
Missouri	$50	$429.50

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

New York filing deadline and late penalties

Biennial Statement

Frequency	every two years
Due	Every two years, during the calendar month in which the original Articles of Organization were filed with the Department of State
Fee	$9

New York publishes no dollar late penalty for a delinquent Biennial Statement.

The LLC is shown in Department of State records as past due in the filing of its Biennial Statement, and any Certificate of Status obtained will reflect that past-due status, which may prevent the LLC from completing certain business transactions. New York does not administratively dissolve an LLC for this.

Full New York annual report filing guide · Deadline calculator

Cost traps specific to New York

Publication can cost several times the filing fee, and nobody will quote you a rate

LLC Law Section 206 requires six weeks in two county-designated newspapers. Rates are set by the newspapers, not the State or the county clerk, and the designated Manhattan daily publishes no rate card - so a Manhattan LLC's publication bill can dwarf the $200 filing fee while being impossible to price in advance from any official source.

Miss the 120-day window and your LLC is suspended

If proof of publication is not filed with the Department of State within 120 days after the articles take effect, LLC Law Section 206 suspends the LLC's authority to carry on, conduct or transact business in New York, though it does not invalidate existing contracts or impose personal liability on members.

The $9 Biennial Statement is not your only recurring cost

Most New York LLCs also owe the Department of Taxation and Finance's annual filing fee on Form IT-204-LL, $25 to $4,500 depending on New York source gross income, due the 15th day of the third month after the tax year closes with no extension available.

Frequently Asked Questions

: The Articles of Organization filing fee is $200, the same online or on paper and the same for a professional service LLC. On top of that, LLC Law Section 206 requires you to publish notice in two county-clerk-designated newspapers once a week for six successive weeks and then file a Certificate of Publication for a $50 fee, so the true cost to form is $250 plus whatever the two newspapers charge. Newspaper rates are set by the papers themselves and vary enormously by county, from roughly $200 total in a low-cost upstate county to far more in New York City.
: $200. The New York Department of State's Division of Corporations fee schedule and its LLC formation guidance both state that the fee for filing the Articles of Organization is $200. The $700 figure is not a filing fee - it is an all-in estimate that bundles the $200 filing fee, the $50 Certificate of Publication fee, and an assumed newspaper publication cost. Only $200 goes to the Department of State to form the LLC.
: Under LLC Law Section 206 you must publish a copy of the Articles of Organization or a notice of formation once in each week for six successive weeks in two newspapers of the county - one daily, one weekly - designated by the county clerk, within 120 days of formation. You then file a Certificate of Publication with the newspapers' affidavits annexed, with a $50 filing fee. The newspaper charges are set by the newspapers, not the State: a Monroe County designated paper publishes $1 per agate line per week plus $10 per affidavit, which is roughly $100 per paper for six weeks, while New York County's mandatory daily quotes rates only on request. Miss the 120-day deadline and your LLC's authority to do business is suspended.
: Not annually - New York uses a Biennial Statement, filed every two years during the calendar month in which your Articles of Organization were originally filed, with a $9 fee. There is no dollar late penalty, but an LLC that does not file is flagged as past due in Department of State records and any Certificate of Status will show it, which can block certain transactions. Separately, most New York LLCs owe the Department of Taxation and Finance an annual filing fee of $25 to $4,500 on Form IT-204-LL, based on New York source gross income.

Where these numbers come from

Every fee above was checked against New York's own published sources on July 29, 2026 — the New York Department of State, Division of Corporations 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 plus the mandatory publication cost. 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.

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