Form an LLC · AL

How to form an LLC in Alabama

Alabama LLCs are formed by filing a Certificate of Formation with the Alabama Secretary of State, Business Entities Division — the official filing fee is $200 (see the fee notes below). Corpus prepares and files it for $356 all-in, including your first year of registered-agent service.

Form your Alabama LLC

What Alabama requires

Formation document
Certificate of Formation verified 2026-09-24
Filing office
Alabama Secretary of State, Business Entities Division verified 2026-09-24
Alabama filing fee for the Certificate of Formation
$200 Certificate of Formation filing fee. verified 2026-09-30
  • Also required: name reservation — $25 by paper or $28 online. source
  • Conditional: Card or prepaid account convenience fee — 3% of the total charge plus $2.00 (only if paying by credit card or prepaid account; available on the mailed formation payment sheet). source
  • A name reservation must precede filing; the fee is one of the listed methods, $25 by paper or $28 online. source · source 2 · source 3 · source 4
Online filing
Yes — You can file a domestic LLC Certificate of Formation through the Secretary of State’s online services. verified 2026-09-24
Standard processing time
Not yet verified by Corpus — check with Alabama Secretary of State, Business Entities Division
Expedited options
Not yet verified by Corpus — check with Alabama Secretary of State, Business Entities Division
Name requirement
The name must contain “Limited Liability Company,” “L.L.C.” or “LLC.” verified 2026-09-24
Registered agent
Required — An Alabama LLC’s formation filing must identify its registered agent and Alabama registered office. verified 2026-09-24
LLC statute
Alabama Limited Liability Company Law of 2014, Ala. Code § 10A-5A-1.01 et seq. verified 2026-09-24

What you’ll need

The Corpus intake collects this information to prepare the filing. Some questions are asked only when they apply — for example, the management question is asked only when the company has more than one owner.

  • What do you want to name the company?
  • In a sentence, what will the business actually do?
  • Where should official mail go — street, city, state, ZIP?
  • What email should we use for this order?
  • Which industry code fits this business?
  • Besides you, will anyone else have authority to make decisions for the business?
  • Who owns this company?

Alabama also asks:

  • Whether to list members/managers on the state record.

What it costs with Corpus

State fees (filing fee + the state's processing charges)
$236
Registered agent, year one
$100
Corpus service
$20
Total at checkout
$356

$236 = Alabama’s $228 in formation fees for an online filing + $8 of other state processing charges for the way Corpus files (expedite, card or online-portal fees). Charges the state lists that may account for it: 3% of the total charge plus $2.00 card or prepaid account convenience fee.

Registered agent renews at $99/yr after the included first year — cancel anytime. Itemized pricing for every state is on the price grid; how Corpus compares to other formation services is on the comparison page.

After you form: staying in good standing

Annual report
No annual report is required. verified 2026-09-30
  • Only for-profit and professional corporations file a Secretary of State annual report; reports from other entities are not accepted. source
Report fee
No fee — no annual report. verified 2026-09-30
Franchise or privilege tax
Only if the calculated business privilege tax exceeds $100. verified 2026-09-30
  • Rates, caps, thresholds, apportionment and exemptions: see Alabama Department of Revenue; calculated business privilege tax of $100 or less is exempt. source

Comparing what registered-agent service costs after year one across providers? The comparison page publishes renewal prices.

Form it with your AI agent

You don’t have to do the intake here. Any agent that can open a link can run the whole thing — Corpus’s formation tools give it Alabama’s requirements and live price, it asks you the questions above, and it hands back a prefilled link you review and pay. Paste this into your assistant:

Form an LLC in Alabama for me with Corpus (corpuslaw.us). Use its formation tools to get Alabama's requirements and price, ask me what you need, and give me the prefilled link.

The guide is on /agents, the protocol reference is /docs/mcp, and the installable skill for this state is the Alabama SKILL.md.

Sources

Every verified fact above names where Corpus read it and the date it was last verified. Sources marked secondary are third-party write-ups used only where an official page did not publish the answer.

Corpus is not a law firm and does not provide legal advice. Fees and rules change — each verified fact above shows the date Corpus last verified it; anything marked “not yet verified” should be confirmed with the filing office.