Your Oklahoma LLC Is Doing Business in Another State
The short answer. You keep one LLC. It stays registered in Oklahoma, which charges $25 a year to keep it in good standing, and a state that finds you are doing business there adds its own registration and its own filings on top. Whether your activity counts is decided by that state's own rule, not by this page. Of the 47 other states that have one figure to compare, 24 cost more in year-one registration than Oklahoma's own first-year total of $125, 21 cost less, and 2 cost the same. Tennessee and Washington are outside those figures: Tennessee's fee scales with member count from $300, and Washington's $180 is before back fees, so neither has one figure to compare.
What you keep paying in Oklahoma
When the Annual Report is due. On the anniversary date of filing the articles of organization, each year (18 O.S. § 2055.2(B))
Every Oklahoma fee behind these figures is broken out on what an LLC costs in Oklahoma.
What a second state adds
These are the states closest to Oklahoma’s own cost line, plus the three dearest to enter. Each figure is that state’s first-year registration cost for an out-of-state LLC, beside what it charges every year after. Whether your activity counts as doing business there depends on the facts, and each state defines it differently.
| State | Year one to register | State charges, each year after | Against your year one ($125) |
|---|---|---|---|
| South Dakota | $750 | $55/yr | $625 more |
| Texas | $750 | None | $625 more |
| Massachusetts | $500 | $520/yr | $375 more |
| North Dakota | $135 | $50/yr | $10 more |
| Florida | $125 | $138.75/yr | the same |
| New Jersey | $125 | $75/yr | the same |
| Connecticut | $120 | $80/yr | $5 less |
| Kansas | $115 | $45/yr | $10 less |
| South Carolina | $110 | None | $15 less |
| Indiana | $108 | $15.50/yr | $17 less |
| Missouri | $105 | None | $20 less |
A state charge of None is not a tax of none. The column is the recurring charge our fee dataset records, and a state that asks for no recurring filing may still levy an entity-level tax that sits outside it.
What we verified about Oklahoma's own costs
Our notes, from Oklahoma's published fee schedules and statutes.
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.
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.
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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.