Form an LLC · AZ

How to form an LLC in Arizona

Arizona LLCs are formed by filing Articles of Organization with the Arizona Corporation Commission, Corporations Division — the official filing fee is $50 (see the fee notes below). Corpus prepares and files it for $250 all-in, including your first year of registered-agent service.

Form your Arizona LLC

What Arizona requires

Formation document
Articles of Organization verified 2026-09-24
Filing office
Arizona Corporation Commission, Corporations Division verified 2026-09-24
Arizona filing fee for the Articles of Organization
$50 Articles of Organization filing fee. verified 2026-09-30
  • Optional: $10 name reservation (optional; the Commission says a reservation is not required). source
  • Optional: $35 expedited processing (typically 3-5 days, in addition to the filing fee). source
  • Optional: $100 next-day processing (reviewed by close of business the following business day). source
  • Optional: $200 same-day processing (reviewed by close of business the same business day). source
  • Optional: $400 two-hour processing (reviewed within 2 hours of receipt). source
  • Optional expedite fees are also listed under processing; do not add the two fields. source · source 2 · source 3
Online filing
Yes — You can form an Arizona LLC through the Corporation Commission’s online filing system. verified 2026-09-24
Standard processing time
Regular processing is typically 14-16 days with no additional fee. verified 2026-09-30
Expedited options
Expedited processing $35 (Typically 3-5 days, in addition to the filing fee); Next-day processing $100 (Reviewed by close of business the following business day); Same-day processing $200 (Reviewed by close of business the same business day); Two-hour processing $400 (Reviewed within 2 hours of receipt) verified 2026-09-30
  • Expedite amounts match the formation_filing add-ons and are not a second set of fees. source · source 2 · source 3
Name requirement
Must contain “Limited Liability Company,” “Limited Company,” “LLC,” “L.L.C.,” “LC,” or “L.C.” verified 2026-09-24
Registered agent
Required — An Arizona LLC must designate and maintain an in-state statutory agent. verified 2026-09-24
LLC statute
Arizona Limited Liability Company Act, A.R.S. §§29-3101 et seq. (Title 29, chapter 7) 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?

Arizona asks nothing beyond the standard questions.

What it costs with Corpus

State fees (filing fee + the state's processing charges)
$85
Registered agent, year one
$100
Corpus service
$65
Total at checkout
$250

$85 = Arizona’s $50 in formation fees for an online filing + $35 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: $35 expedited processing.

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 corporations file annual reports. source
Report fee
No fee — no annual report. verified 2026-09-30
Franchise or privilege tax
Not yet verified by Corpus — check with Arizona Corporation Commission, Corporations Division
Publication requirement
Required — Within sixty days after the Commission files the articles, either newspaper publication or Commission database posting. verified 2026-09-30
  • Newspaper publication is three consecutive publications unless the statutory agent's county has more than eight hundred thousand people, in which case the Commission posts the notice; no official cost is stated. source · source 2

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 Arizona’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 Arizona for me with Corpus (corpuslaw.us). Use its formation tools to get Arizona'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 Arizona 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.