Form an LLC · MN

How to form an LLC in Minnesota

Minnesota LLCs are formed by filing Articles of Organization with the Minnesota Secretary of State, Business Services — the official filing fee is $135 (see the fee notes below). Corpus prepares and files it for $275 all-in, including your first year of registered-agent service.

Form your Minnesota LLC

What Minnesota requires

Formation document
Articles of Organization verified 2026-09-24
Filing office
Minnesota Secretary of State, Business Services verified 2026-09-24
Minnesota filing fee for the Articles of Organization
$135 Articles of organization filing payment (Any online or in-person surcharge is unverified; the $135 is the statutory filing payment). verified 2026-09-30
  • The $135 is the statutory filing payment; the total charged by the Secretary of State online or in person is unverified because both fee-page snapshots are bot-check walls. source
Online filing
Yes — You can submit Minnesota LLC Articles of Organization online. verified 2026-09-24
Standard processing time
Not yet verified by Corpus — check with Minnesota Secretary of State, Business Services
Expedited options
Not yet verified by Corpus — check with Minnesota Secretary of State, Business Services
Name requirement
The name must contain “limited liability company” or “LLC.” verified 2026-09-24
Registered agent
Not required — Minnesota requires an LLC to have a registered office, but a registered agent is optional. verified 2026-09-24
LLC statute
Minnesota Revised Uniform Limited Liability Company Act, Minn. Stat. ch. 322C 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?

Minnesota 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)
$155
Registered agent, year one
$100
Corpus service
$20
Total at checkout
$275

$155 = Minnesota’s $135 in formation fees for an online filing + $20 of other state processing charges for the way Corpus files (expedite, card or online-portal fees).

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 — by December 31 of each calendar year after the calendar year of formation. verified 2026-09-30
  • The statute requires an annual renewal by December 31 and states that no fee is required. source
Report fee
no fee verified 2026-09-30
Franchise or privilege tax
$260 2026 minimum fee at the first threshold — only for a partnership-classified LLC with at least two members when Minnesota property, payroll, and sales or receipts total at least $1,280,000. verified 2026-09-30
  • Rates, caps, thresholds, apportionment and exemptions: see Minnesota Department of Revenue. A single-member LLC reported only on its owner’s Form M1 is excluded. 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 Minnesota’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 Minnesota for me with Corpus (corpuslaw.us). Use its formation tools to get Minnesota'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 Minnesota 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.