Form an LLC · FL

How to form an LLC in Florida

Florida LLCs are formed by filing Articles of Organization with the Florida Department of State, Division of Corporations — the official filing fee is $100 (see the fee notes below). Corpus prepares and files it for $250 all-in, including your first year of registered-agent service.

Form your Florida LLC

What Florida requires

Formation document
Articles of Organization verified 2026-09-24
Filing office
Florida Department of State, Division of Corporations verified 2026-09-24
Florida filing fee for the Articles of Organization
$100 Articles of Organization filing fee. verified 2026-09-30
  • Also required: registered agent designation fee — $25. source
  • Optional: $25 name reservation (optional; not required before filing). source
  • The fee schedule labels both the $100 filing fee and the $25 registered-agent fee as required. Name reservation is a separate optional filing. source
Online filing
Yes — You can form a Florida LLC online through Sunbiz. verified 2026-09-24
Standard processing time
Not yet verified by Corpus — check with Florida Department of State, Division of Corporations
Expedited options
Not yet verified by Corpus — check with Florida Department of State, Division of Corporations
Name requirement
The name must contain “limited liability company,” “LLC,” or “L.L.C.” verified 2026-09-24
Registered agent
Required — A Florida LLC must designate a registered agent in its Articles of Organization. verified 2026-09-24
LLC statute
Florida Revised Limited Liability Company Act, Fla. Stat. ch. 605 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?

Florida also asks:

  • Effective date + whether to list members/managers on the state record.

What it costs with Corpus

State fees (filing fee + the state's processing charges)
$125
Registered agent, year one
$100
Corpus service
$25
Total at checkout
$250

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
Annual report — january 1 through May 1 of the calendar year following the LLC's date of filing or, if listed, its effective date. verified 2026-09-30
Report fee
$138.75 on or before May 1 or $538.75 after May 1 verified 2026-09-30
Franchise or privilege tax
Only if the LLC elects corporate classification for federal and Florida income tax purposes. verified 2026-09-30
  • Rates, caps, thresholds, apportionment and exemptions: see Florida Department of Revenue. A partnership-classified LLC may file an information return when it has a corporate owner, but the corporate owner pays the corporate tax. 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 Florida’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 Florida for me with Corpus (corpuslaw.us). Use its formation tools to get Florida'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 Florida 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.