The full Florida LLC cost table
| Cost | Amount | Required? |
|---|---|---|
| Florida state filing fee | $125 one-time | Yes |
| Recurring state cost | $138.75/yr — Annual Report | Yes |
| Registered agent | $0 as your own agent, or ~$125/yr for a service | Yes (one or the other) |
| EIN (federal tax ID) | $0 direct from the IRS | Usually |
| First-year total | $263.75 as your own agent · $388.75 with a service | — |
| Five-year total | $818.75 as your own agent · $1,443.75 with a service | — |
Late filing adds a $400 penalty.
The May 1 deadline is the whole game in Florida
Every Florida LLC files an annual report with Sunbiz between January 1 and May 1 — $138.75 on time. On May 2 the price becomes $538.75: a flat $400 late fee, applied automatically, with no discretion and no appeal. Keep not filing and the state dissolves the LLC in September. That $400 penalty is nearly three times the fee itself, which makes Florida's real cost structure less about the numbers and more about calendar discipline. The report itself is a five-minute confirmation of your details — there is no financial disclosure — so the penalty exists purely to punish forgetting.
What Florida doesn't charge
The pleasant half of the ledger: no state income tax on individuals, no franchise tax on LLCs. A Florida LLC's pass-through profits reach a Florida-resident owner without state income tax — one of the few big states where that's true. Combined with the mid-pack $125 formation fee, a compliant Florida LLC costs about $263.75 in state fees across its first year, and $138.75 each year after. It's not the cheapest state in the Southeast (Michigan-style $25 reports don't exist here), but for what is effectively America's small-business capital — Florida leads the nation in new business applications per our Formation Index — the pricing is unremarkable in the best way.
Every other Florida LLC fee, from the Sunbiz schedule
First, a detail almost every guide flattens: Florida's $125 formation cost is actually two separate fees — a $100 filing fee plus a mandatory $25 registered agent designation. You cannot avoid the $25 by acting as your own agent; it is the fee for naming one, whoever it is. Everything else below is optional or situational, straight from the state's fee schedule, checked 31 August 2026.
| Filing | Fee | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Filing fee (required) | $100 | The Articles of Organization themselves |
| Registered agent designation (required) | $25 | Mandatory — this is the other half of the “$125” |
| Certificate of status at formation (optional) | $5 | Cheapest proof-of-existence document of any state on this site |
| Certified copy at formation (optional) | $30 | Banks and lenders sometimes ask |
| Annual report (by May 1) | $138.75 | Includes the supplemental fee |
| Annual report received after May 1 | $538.75 | The $400 penalty, stated as a total |
| Amended annual report | $50 | Correcting a report you already filed |
| Name reservation | $25 | Optional — Florida does not require it |
| Change of registered agent | $25 | Switching agent mid-year |
| Registered agent resignation (active LLC) | $85 | Paid by the agent, not you — but it signals a costly exit |
| Any other amendment | $25 | Name change, member change, address change |
| Articles of dissolution / withdrawal | $25 | Closing the LLC properly |
| Reinstatement | $100 | Plus every missed year's annual report fee |
The reinstatement line is the one to take seriously, because it compounds with Florida's September dissolution. Miss the May 1 report, ignore the $538.75, and the state dissolves the LLC in September — reviving it then costs $100 plus the full annual report fee for every year missed, on top of losing your name if someone else took it. The sequence turns a $138.75 filing into several hundred dollars and a scramble, which is why this page keeps returning to one date.
Our LLC cost calculator computes first-year and five-year totals for all 51 jurisdictions from the same verified dataset as this page — including Florida — and the full table is downloadable as CSV.
The registered agent is the recurring cost most Florida fee tables leave out, and it is the one line on this page you actually choose. What a registered agent costs covers how the pricing works; the cheapest option in your state covers where the floor really sits, which is lower than most tables say.