Updated August 10, 2026. Quick answer. Forming an LLC in Georgia costs an unverified filing fee (see the table below), and an ongoing report requirement ($60 annual registration: a $50 fee plus a $10 service charge). Five-year total: Not computed — unverified input(s) a reader cannot do without: the formation filing fee. Treating an unverified fee as zero would understate this state.
The same question in other states: How Much Does an LLC Cost in Kentucky?, How Much Does an LLC Cost in Louisiana? and How Much Does an LLC Cost in Maine?
What it actually costs
| Item | Amount |
|---|---|
| Formation filing fee | Not verified — see notes |
| Annual/biennial report | $60 annual registration ($50 fee + $10 service charge) |
| Franchise / minimum tax | Not verified — see notes |
| Publication requirement | No newspaper publication requirement was found. |
Five-year cost of ownership: Not computed — unverified input(s) a reader cannot do without: the formation filing fee. Treating an unverified fee as zero would understate this state. Publication cost is excluded from this figure — it’s county-driven where it applies, not state-driven, so a single number would be wrong for most filers.
Expedited filing: Two business days $100; same day $250; one hour $1,000; annual registration by mail two-business-day expedite $50
The trap worth knowing before you file
Some figures in this row could not be verified. Access failures, recorded rather than worked around: https://sos.ga.gov/how-to-guide/how-guide-filing-fees and every other sos.ga.gov path answer outside readers with a ‘Just a moment…’ block page rather than content; https://ecorp.sos.ga.gov/ and /Account/FilingFees return 403 the same way; codes.findlaw.com and law.justia.com both 403 (justia is documented as 403 throughout this project); ga.elaws.us did not resolve. Recovery route: the Wayback Machine’s snapshots of the same official URLs — snapshots of sos.ga.gov/how-to-gu
Once the LLC exists, an operating agreement is what actually runs it
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Source
O.C.G.A. 14-11-1101(a)(14) sets the $50.00 annual registration and (a)(15) the $25.00 late penalty, read 2026-09-06; the $10.00 service charge is from the Secretary of State’s Corporations Division Filing Fees schedule (Rev. 8/2025, effective September 6, 2025), which carries it in both the online and the paper column: sos.ga.gov filing fee schedule (PDF). Formation-service sites were not used as a source for this figure.
If the LLC already exists somewhere else
Everything above prices forming a new Georgia LLC. A company that already exists in another state does not have to be dissolved and re-formed: Georgia takes it in as the same legal entity by the route its own code captions conversion, O.C.G.A. § 14-11-212, and the entity-law filing fee for it is $95 as the agency last published it (that fee page carries no date) — a separate filing from the formation costs above. Going the other way, a Georgia LLC may leave for another US state under O.C.G.A. § 14-11-906. Either way the move needs both ends to allow it — the state being left as well as the state being joined — which is where most published advice goes wrong.
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The cost of letting it lapse is a different number. A Georgia LLC that stops filing its annual registration is administratively dissolved, and coming back costs the statutory reinstatement fee on top of the registrations you skipped — the arithmetic is on reinstating a Georgia LLC.
Looking for the annual-report due date and fee instead? See Georgia LLC annual report.
Electing S-corp status for this LLC changes the tax picture too. Georgia can terminate its recognition of the election, and separately taxes S-corps under a net worth tax an LLC is exempt from. See what Georgia charges at the entity level.
Related: Georgia’s registered agent requirements, including who can serve and what happens if you don’t have one.
Related: Georgia’s LLC Certificate of Good Standing cost, including who issues it and how fast you can get one.