Nevada LLC filing: the real cost is $425, not the $75 most guides quote

Every figure on this page comes from the Nevada Secretary of State fee schedule or the Nevada Revised Statutes, not from an aggregator. The number that matters most is the one most guides get wrong.

Forming a Nevada LLC costs $425, not the $75 most guides quote.

Nevada does not let you file one document and be done. It requires three filings at the same time before the LLC is operational, and the $75 articles fee that headlines most cost guides is less than a fifth of the real bill. Everything below is read from the state’s own numbers.

Naming the company

A Nevada LLC’s name must include “Limited Liability Company” or an accepted abbreviation such as “LLC,” and it has to be distinguishable from other names on the Secretary of State’s record.

A Nevada LLC name must carry an LLC designator and stand apart from every name on the state’s record.

Nevada’s naming rules are not strict beyond that. If you want to hold a name before filing, a name reservation costs $25.

Forming the LLC

Formation is three simultaneous filings through the state’s SilverFlume portal or by mail.

Nevada makes you file three things at once, and the LLC is not real until all $425 is paid.

The three are the Articles of Organization at $75, the Initial List of Managers or Managing Members at $150, and the State Business License at $200, for $425 total. Corporations pay $500 for the business license; LLCs pay $200. Online filing adds a card-processing surcharge of roughly 2.5%. The initial list names the managers, or the managing members if the LLC is member-managed, and it is a public record from day one, which is the privacy point covered on the structure and cost page.

The registered agent

Every Nevada LLC must maintain a registered agent with a physical street address in Nevada.

A Nevada LLC needs a registered agent with a physical Nevada street address, not a mailbox.

A post office box does not qualify. You can serve as your own agent with a Nevada address, or hire a commercial agent whose service fee is separate from any state charge.

The annual filings

Nevada has no separate annual report. The annual list doubles as one, and it comes bundled with the business license renewal.

Nevada’s annual bill is $350, due the last day of your anniversary month, and it names your managers publicly.

Every year the LLC files an Annual List of Managers or Managing Members at $150, a flat fee for LLCs rather than a sliding scale, and renews the State Business License at $200. Both are due by the last day of the LLC’s anniversary month. Miss the deadline and Nevada adds a $75 penalty on the annual list under NRS 86.272 and a $100 penalty on the business license under NRS 76.

Falling behind, and getting back

Let the filings lapse and the state moves toward administrative dissolution under NRS 86.274, and the exposure is worse than a late fee.

Let a Nevada LLC lapse and the managers can be personally liable for debts during the dead period.

Once an LLC is administratively dissolved, it loses the right to transact business, its name protection ends, and its managers can face personal liability for debts incurred while it was dissolved. Reinstatement requires filing every delinquent annual list at $150 for each year missed, plus penalties, so a two-year lapse can run past $400. Keeping the anniversary-month deadline is far cheaper than recovering from it.

Registering a company from another state

An LLC formed elsewhere that does business in Nevada files a Foreign Limited-Liability Company Application for Registration.

Registering an out-of-state company in Nevada costs $75, then the same $350 in list and license.

The registration itself is $75, but a foreign LLC still owes the $150 initial list and the $200 business license, so foreign qualification lands near the same $425 as forming a domestic one, and the same $350 every year after. Nevada has no newspaper publication requirement, which is one real cost it does not impose, unlike New York.

Speed, copies, and standing

Nevada will file your LLC in an hour for $1,000, or a day for $125, on top of the base fee.

Nevada offers expedited service in tiers set by statute: 24-hour for $125, 2-hour for $500, and 1-hour for $1,000, each added to the base filing fee. The 24-hour option is available online; the faster tiers are generally in-person in Carson City or Las Vegas. A certified copy of a filing is $30, and a Certificate of Good Standing is $50. That last figure is worth noting against Wyoming, where the same certificate is free online.

The bottom line

Forming a Nevada LLC costs $425, three filings at once: articles $75, initial list $150, and business license $200.

The recurring cost is $350 a year, an annual list at $150 plus a business license renewal at $200, due the last day of the anniversary month.

Late filings add $75 and $100 penalties, and a lapse can expose the managers personally and cost more than $400 to reverse.

Registering an out-of-state company costs $75 plus the same list and license, near $425 in all.

Expedited service runs $125 to $1,000 on top of the base fee, and a Certificate of Good Standing costs $50 where Wyoming’s is free.

Every number here was read from the Nevada fee schedule or the statutes, because the widely quoted $75 formation figure leaves most of the real cost out.

What this page does not cover

This page is the mechanics: fees, forms, and deadlines. How creditors reach you in Nevada is on the protection page. What the statute lets your operating agreement do is on the governance page. Where the entity lives, the real property transfer tax, and the tax overlay including the Commerce Tax are on the structure and cost page.

Last verified July 2026.