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

The Oklahoma Secretary of State charges $100 to file Articles of Organization for a domestic LLC under 18 O.S. § 2055. Paying by credit card adds the fee schedule's 4% card fee. Optional extras include a $10 name reservation and a $20 Certificate of Good Standing. A foreign LLC registering in Oklahoma pays $300 instead of $100.

Does an Oklahoma LLC have to file an annual report?

Yes. Every domestic and foreign LLC must file an Annual Certificate and pay $25 each year, due on the anniversary date of the filing of its Articles of Organization (18 O.S. § 2055.2). The Secretary of State emails a notice at least 60 days before the anniversary date to the LLC's last known email address of record.

What happens if you don't file the Oklahoma Annual Certificate?

There is no dollar penalty, but 60 days after the due date the LLC ceases to be in good standing. From that point the Secretary of State will not accept any further filings or issue a certificate of good standing, and the LLC cannot maintain any action, suit or proceeding in an Oklahoma court until it is reinstated.

Does Oklahoma have an LLC franchise tax?

No. HB 1039X (2023) eliminated the Oklahoma franchise tax effective for tax year 2024 and later, with tax year 2023 the last year a return was required. The recurring state cost for an Oklahoma LLC is therefore the $25 Annual Certificate, plus any income tax owed by the members on their pass-through income.

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How Much Does an LLC Cost in Oklahoma?

By Edmond Hui · Fees verified July 29, 2026 against the Oklahoma Secretary of State 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 Oklahoma costs $100 to file the Articles of Organization with the state, the Annual Certificate costs $25 every year. That puts the first-year state cost at $125, before any registered-agent service.

Articles of Organization$100

Annual Certificate$25

First-year state cost$125

Five-year state cost$225

What you actually pay in Oklahoma

Oklahoma charges $100 to file Articles of Organization (18 O.S. § 2055) and $25 for the Annual Certificate every year on the LLC's anniversary date (18 O.S. § 2055.2), which is among the cheapest recurring Secretary of State fees in the country. Name reservation is $10, certification of a copy is $10, and a Certificate of Good Standing is $20. A foreign LLC registering in Oklahoma pays $300, three times the domestic fee. Card payments carry a 4% credit card fee under the published fee schedule, and a separate $40 annual agent fee due each July 1 applies only to an LLC for which the Secretary of State itself acts as registered agent.

Oklahoma LLC fee breakdown

Cost	Amount	How often	Charged by
Articles of Organization (SOS Form 0073 (instructions: SOS Form 0074))	$100	One time	Oklahoma Secretary of State
Annual Certificate	$25	Every year	Oklahoma Secretary of State
Required state cost, first year	$125	—	—
Registered agent service (optional)	$50–$300	Every year	Commercial provider
Name reservation (optional)	$10	One time	Oklahoma Secretary of State
Certificate of good standing (optional)	$20	Per copy	Oklahoma Secretary of State

The statutory fee is $100 either way, but the Secretary of State's fee schedule adds a credit card fee of 4% (listed as "Credit Card Fees @0.04"), so card-paid online filings cost more than a $100 check.

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.

Oklahoma 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)	$125	$250
Each year after	$25	$150
Five-year total	$225	$850

First filing timing: The first Annual Certificate is due on the first anniversary of the date the Articles of Organization were filed; the deadline is the LLC's own anniversary date, not a fixed calendar date.

Is Oklahoma expensive compared with other states?

Oklahoma ranks 16th cheapest of 50 states on first-year cost — $109.53 below the $234.53 national average. On ongoing annual cost it ranks 20th.

Cheaper state	First-year cost	You would save
Montana	$35	$90
Arizona	$50	$75
Missouri	$50	$75

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

Oklahoma filing deadline and late penalties

Annual Certificate

Frequency	every year
Due	On the anniversary date of filing the articles of organization, each year (18 O.S. § 2055.2(B))
Fee	$25

Oklahoma charges no dollar late penalty, but 18 O.S. § 2055.2(D) gives only a 60-day grace period after the anniversary date before the LLC loses good standing.

Under 18 O.S. § 2055.2(D)-(F), an LLC that has not filed and paid within 60 days after the due date ceases to be in good standing; the Secretary of State will then refuse to accept any further certificate or articles and will not issue a certificate of good standing, and the LLC may not maintain any action, suit or proceeding in any Oklahoma court until it is reinstated.

Full Oklahoma annual report filing guide · Deadline calculator

Cost traps specific to Oklahoma

Good standing lost 60 days after your anniversary

18 O.S. § 2055.2(D)-(F) strips an LLC of good standing 60 days after a missed Annual Certificate, and an out-of-good-standing Oklahoma LLC cannot file documents, cannot get a certificate of good standing, and cannot maintain a lawsuit in any Oklahoma court until reinstated.

The only reminder is an email

The statute and the Annual Certificate form both state that notice is sent solely to the LLC's last known electronic mail address of record, so a stale or bounced email address means no reminder at all — the $25 deadline still runs.

4% card surcharge on every filing

The Oklahoma fee schedule lists a credit card fee of 4%, so paying the $100 formation fee by card adds roughly $4 and the $25 Annual Certificate adds about $1 each year.

Frequently Asked Questions

: The Oklahoma Secretary of State charges $100 to file Articles of Organization for a domestic LLC under 18 O.S. § 2055. Paying by credit card adds the fee schedule's 4% card fee. Optional extras include a $10 name reservation and a $20 Certificate of Good Standing. A foreign LLC registering in Oklahoma pays $300 instead of $100.
: Yes. Every domestic and foreign LLC must file an Annual Certificate and pay $25 each year, due on the anniversary date of the filing of its Articles of Organization (18 O.S. § 2055.2). The Secretary of State emails a notice at least 60 days before the anniversary date to the LLC's last known email address of record.
: There is no dollar penalty, but 60 days after the due date the LLC ceases to be in good standing. From that point the Secretary of State will not accept any further filings or issue a certificate of good standing, and the LLC cannot maintain any action, suit or proceeding in an Oklahoma court until it is reinstated.
: No. HB 1039X (2023) eliminated the Oklahoma franchise tax effective for tax year 2024 and later, with tax year 2023 the last year a return was required. The recurring state cost for an Oklahoma LLC is therefore the $25 Annual Certificate, plus any income tax owed by the members on their pass-through income.

Where these numbers come from

Every fee above was checked against Oklahoma's own published sources on July 29, 2026 — the Oklahoma 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.

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