Form an LLC · NY

How to form an LLC in New York

New York LLCs are formed by filing Articles of Organization with the New York Department of State, Division of Corporations, State Records and Uniform Commercial Code — the official filing fee is $200 (see the fee notes below). Corpus prepares and files it for $325 all-in, including your first year of registered-agent service.

Form your New York LLC

What New York requires

Formation document
Articles of Organization verified 2026-09-24
Filing office
New York Department of State, Division of Corporations, State Records and Uniform Commercial Code verified 2026-09-24
New York filing fee for the Articles of Organization
$200 Articles of organization filing fee. verified 2026-09-30
  • Limited Liability Company Law section 1101 states the $200 articles fee in words; the Department of State fee page returned HTTP 403. source
Online filing
Yes — New York accepts LLC formation filings online through the Department of State’s website. verified 2026-09-24
Standard processing time
Not yet verified by Corpus — check with New York Department of State, Division of Corporations, State Records and Uniform Commercial Code
Expedited options
Not yet verified by Corpus — check with New York Department of State, Division of Corporations, State Records and Uniform Commercial Code
Name requirement
Must contain “Limited Liability Company,” “LLC,” or “L.L.C.” verified 2026-09-24
Registered agent
Required — New York domestic LLC Articles of Organization must designate the Secretary of State as agent for service of process. verified 2026-09-24
LLC statute
New York Limited Liability Company Law, N.Y. Ltd. Liab. Co. Law §101 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?

New York asks nothing beyond the standard questions.

What it costs with Corpus

State fees (filing fee + the state's processing charges)
$205
Registered agent, year one
$100
Corpus service
$20
Total at checkout
$325

$205 = New York’s $200 in formation fees for an online filing + $5 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
Biennial report — biennially in the calendar month in which the articles of organization were filed. verified 2026-09-30
  • Limited Liability Company Law section 1101 states the $9 biennial statement-of-address fee in words; it does not apply to statements submitted through the Department of Taxation and Finance. source · source 2
Report fee
$9 (does not apply to statements submitted through the department of taxation and finance) verified 2026-09-30
Franchise or privilege tax
$25 minimum annual LLC filing fee — only if the default-classified LLC has New York-source income, gain, loss, or deduction in the current tax year. verified 2026-09-30
  • Rates, caps, thresholds, apportionment and exemptions: see New York Department of Taxation and Finance; a default LLC with no New York-source income, gain, loss, or deduction does not owe the fee. source
Publication requirement
Required — Within one hundred twenty days after the articles become effective; once each week for six successive weeks in two newspapers designated by the county clerk — $50 Certificate of publication filing fee. verified 2026-09-30
  • The $50 certificate-of-publication fee is stated by statute; no saved official source states the newspapers’ charge. 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 New York’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 New York for me with Corpus (corpuslaw.us). Use its formation tools to get New York'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 New York 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.