Form an LLC · ND

How to form an LLC in North Dakota

North Dakota LLCs are formed by filing Articles of Organization with the North Dakota Secretary of State, Business Services Division — the official filing fee is $135. Corpus prepares and files it for $255 all-in, including your first year of registered-agent service.

Form your North Dakota LLC

What North Dakota requires

Formation document
Articles of Organization verified 2026-09-24
Filing office
North Dakota Secretary of State, Business Services Division verified 2026-09-24
North Dakota filing fee for the Articles of Organization
$135 Articles of organization / registration fee. verified 2026-09-30
Online filing
Yes — You can form a North Dakota LLC online through the Secretary of State's FirstStop portal. verified 2026-09-24
Standard processing time
Not yet verified by Corpus — check with North Dakota Secretary of State, Business Services Division
Expedited options
Not yet verified by Corpus — check with North Dakota Secretary of State, Business Services Division
Name requirement
The name must contain “limited liability company,” “limited liability co.,” “LLC,” or “L.L.C.” verified 2026-09-24
Registered agent
Required — A North Dakota LLC must continuously maintain a registered office and registered agent. verified 2026-09-24
LLC statute
Uniform Limited Liability Company Act, N.D.C.C. ch. 10-32.1 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?

North Dakota asks nothing beyond the standard questions.

What it costs with Corpus

State fees (filing fee + the state's processing charges)
$135
Registered agent, year one
$100
Corpus service
$20
Total at checkout
$255

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 — november 15; the Century Code requires delivery before November 16, and the first report is due the year after the formation year. verified 2026-09-30
  • The Century Code states an additional late-filing fee of fifty dollars after the deadline, in words rather than digits. source · source 2
Report fee
$50 verified 2026-09-30
Franchise or privilege tax
Not yet verified by Corpus — check with North Dakota Secretary of State, Business Services Division

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