How Much Does a Nevada LLC Cost in 2026? Filing Fee, Annual List and Business License

As of November 2026, forming a Nevada LLC costs $425 at the state, and keeping it alive costs $350 a year, according to the Nevada Secretary of State’s own formation instructions and the Nevada Revised Statutes. I run Ecommerce Paradise, and this guide is the Nevada-only cost page that sits under my 20-state fee table. The three state charges at formation are $75 for the Articles of Organization, $150 for the Initial List of Managers or Members and $200 for the State Business License, and the same $150 plus $200 repeats every year. This page also prices the registered agent, the expedite tiers, the commerce tax, what the formation services show today, and the question that decides whether Nevada saves a store owner anything: what you owe in the state where you actually live.

Disclosure: some links below are affiliate links, which means I may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. This is general information, not legal or tax advice. Fees and rules change, so check the official Nevada pages linked below before you file or pay anything.

Nevada LLC Cost at a Glance (November 2026)

One note on sources first. The nvsos.gov pages I tried returned a bot-protection or access-denied screen to my tools, so I did not read the fee schedule page there. The state figures below come from the Secretary of State’s Biz Hub instructions PDFs (formation instructions marked revised 7/1/2026, the LLC fee schedule referenced in them marked revised 7/22/2025) and from the Nevada Revised Statutes on the Legislature’s site. Where something was not shown, the table says so instead of guessing.

If you file once, pay by check and add nothing else, the state side is $425 for the first period, then $350 a year. That is well above Wyoming’s $100 formation fee and $60 annual minimum. It also fills a gap in my LLC fees by state table, where Nevada was marked not verified because the official pages would not load for me. The recurring number is the one to plan around, because the $200 license comes back every year, and the rest of this guide prices the pieces around it.

The Three Formation Charges: $75, $150 and $200

The Secretary of State’s LLC formation instructions list the $75 Articles of Organization, the $150 Initial List and the $200 State Business License as separate charges. The instructions describe the list-plus-license payment as $350, and they do not print a combined total with the Articles, so the $425 figure is my own addition. Northwest Registered Agent’s Nevada page shows the same three amounts and a $425 minimum, and its page adds the 2.5% processing fee, which it totals as $436.

A few rules from the instructions affect cost and planning:

• Name: it must include an approved designator such as “LLC” or “Limited Liability Company.”
• Initial list: it must accompany the filing, and a real person must sign it, otherwise the form is returned.
• Registered agent: required, with a physical Nevada address. I cover this below.
• Payment: checks are payable to the Nevada Secretary of State, and card payments carry the 2.5% non-refundable fee.
• Exemptions: the instructions show $150 (list only) for entities exempt from the license, such as qualifying nonprofits and government entities, with documentation.

On the exemption point, Nevada law defines some groups as not being a “business” for license purposes, including certain tax-exempt nonprofits and home-based operators under an earnings cap, and it requires an annual application for a certificate of exemption. That comes from NRS Chapter 76. I would not assume a small online store qualifies. If you think you do, ask the Secretary of State or a CPA before you skip the $200.

The formation instructions do not give a processing time. Bizee’s Nevada page says timing varies and that online filing through SilverFlume is generally faster than mail, without giving a number of days, so treat any vendor timeline as an estimate and not a state promise.

Expedite Fees: $125, $500 and $1,000

Nevada sells speed, and the tiers are on the state’s own instructions. The 1-hour tier adds $1,000 per item, the 2-hour tier adds $500 per item, and the 24-hour tier runs from $25 to $125 depending on the service, with $125 listed for most filings including the initial list. These fees are added to the normal filing fee, not swapped in for it.

The word “item” matters. The instructions say per item, and I did not find a page that spells out how many items a new-LLC filing counts as, since the Articles and the initial list are separate lines. If you want to rush a formation, ask the Secretary of State’s office what the total will be before you pay, because two items would double the add-on in my table. Vendors sell their own rush upgrades on top of the state’s: ZenBusiness lists a $79 fast filing add-on, which is a vendor processing speed and not a state tier.

If your timeline is tight but not urgent, my post on how long it takes to get an LLC before you launch your store walks through the order of operations, and most stores do not need the one-hour tier.

Registered Agent: Required, and a Recurring Line

Nevada requires a registered agent. According to the formation instructions, the agent needs a physical Nevada address and may use a P.O. box only for mailing. The agent must be available during normal business hours to receive legal documents. An individual agent must be at least 18, and a commercial agent must be authorized to do business in Nevada. The agent signs a Certificate of Acceptance, or a separate acceptance form is attached.

If you live outside Nevada, you have no Nevada street address of your own, so you almost always hire a commercial agent. The state does not set their prices. What I could verify comes from vendor pages:

• Northwest Registered Agent: its registered agent page shows $125 per year for one state, with $100 per state per year for five or more states. Its Nevada page also lists a $60 agent change, a $175 amendment and a $25 name reservation.
• ZenBusiness: the pricing page lists registered agent service at $199 per year, and says none of its plans includes one.
• Bizee: every package includes one free year of registered agent service, and the pages I loaded did not show a price after that.
• LegalZoom: the page says it can act as your agent and did not show a price.

Letting the agent lapse is the costly mistake, because an LLC without a working agent can fall behind on state filings, and Nevada’s reinstatement fee is $300 plus whatever you owe. Keep the agent’s renewal date in the same calendar as your annual list.

The Annual List and License: $350 Every Year

This is where Nevada differs from the cheap states. Under NRS Chapter 86, the initial list and each annual list carry a $150 fee, and the annual list is due by the last day of the month in which your anniversary falls. Under NRS Chapter 76, the license renewal is $200 for an LLC, paid when the list is filed. The two together are $350 a year, which is also the figure Northwest’s Nevada page shows.

The reinstatement row is an example. NRS 86.276 requires the unpaid list fees and penalties for each late year plus a $300 reinstatement fee, and the license late fee is stated in NRS 76.130 and on the fee schedule, so a real total depends on how many years you missed. The statute also says a charter that has stayed revoked for five consecutive years cannot be reinstated.

Deadlines and what happens if you miss them

The list is due by the last day of your anniversary month. If you formed on May 15, the list is due by the end of May every year. A company that fails to file or pay is in default, and a $75 penalty is added. Revocation follows if the default continues, which forfeits the right to transact business. I did not find a state page I could load that says how many reminders the Secretary of State sends, so put the date in your own calendar. A cheap fix is to file the list in the first week of the month and not the last.

Commerce Tax and Modified Business Tax: Probably Not Your Problem Yet

Store owners hear “Nevada commerce tax” and assume it applies to everyone. It does not apply to most small sellers, based on the Department of Taxation’s pages. The Commerce Tax FAQs say a business entity must file when its Nevada gross revenue in a taxable year is above $4,000,000, and the statute at NRS 363C.200 says entities at or below that amount do not have to file. The tax base is Nevada gross revenue minus $4,000,000, multiplied by a rate for your industry category, and the rates are not printed on the commerce tax overview page I loaded.

The taxable year runs July 1 through June 30, and the return is due 45 days later, which the Department’s page gives as August 14 for the 2025-2026 year. Two cautions. First, the threshold is about Nevada gross revenue, and I did not find a page that tells an online seller how to source sales to Nevada, so a store with out-of-state customers should ask the Department or a CPA before assuming its Nevada revenue is zero. Second, this is not the same as the State Business License, and being exempt from one does not exempt you from the other.

There is also the Modified Business Tax, which is a payroll tax. The Department’s Modified Business Tax page says the first $50,000 of wages is non-taxable for general businesses, the general rate is 1.17% (effective July 1, 2023), and employers file quarterly. If your store has no employees, you may never meet it, but if you hire, add it to your model.

EIN, Operating Agreement and Other Small Costs

The EIN is free. The IRS page on getting an employer identification number says it charges no fee and warns about sites that do. The online tool requires an entity formed in the US with its main place of business in the US, and a responsible party with an SSN or ITIN. You will see paid versions of the same step: ZenBusiness’s pricing page lists an EIN service at $99, and LegalZoom and ZenBusiness bundle one into their higher tiers. You are paying for convenience, not for something the IRS charges.

The operating agreement is an internal document, and it is not one of the filings in the Secretary of State’s formation instructions. I would still write one down, especially with more than one owner. ZenBusiness lists an operating agreement template at $99, and its Pro tier and LegalZoom’s Pro tier include one in the package price. I did not pull Nevada’s statute on what an operating agreement must contain, so ask a lawyer if the terms matter.

The other small fees come from the state’s instructions: $50 for a Certificate of Good Standing, $30 per certification, $20 for an apostille, and $2 per page for copies after the first file-stamped copy. A bank or marketplace that wants proof the LLC exists is the usual reason to order a good standing certificate, and the $50 is worth paying only when somebody asks for one.

Does Nevada Make Sense If You Live in Another State?

This is the question behind most searches for a Nevada LLC, and the cost answer is usually that it adds a layer. If you live in, hold inventory in or run your business from another state, that state generally expects your Nevada LLC to register there as a foreign LLC. You then pay Nevada’s costs and your home state’s costs. This is my reading of how it works, so confirm with your state before you decide.

Here is what the home-state side looks like, using the official pages I loaded for three large states. These are examples of the pattern, not a complete list.

The Texas fee schedule also says a foreign LLC that transacted business in Texas for more than 90 days without registering faces a late filing fee equal to the registration fee for each full or partial calendar year. California’s Franchise Tax Board page says the $800 applies to an LLC doing business in California or organized there, and I did not verify how it applies to a specific out-of-state seller, so ask a CPA. My California LLC fees post covers that side in more depth.

Here is a worked example with the assumptions stated. A Florida resident forms a Nevada LLC, hires Northwest as the Nevada agent at $125 a year, registers the LLC in Florida, and files three on-time annual lists in Nevada and three annual reports in Florida. Compare that to a Florida LLC where the owner serves as his or her own agent:

The Nevada route costs $1,850 more across the period, nearly all of it from Nevada’s $350 yearly charge and the agent. The same exercise for Texas, with $425 + $750 + 3 x $350 + 3 x $125, comes to $2,600 against $300 for a Texas LLC filed under the Form 205 fee. That Texas number leaves out franchise tax reports, and I did not verify how Texas treats a registered foreign LLC, so check the Comptroller. My Florida LLC cost guide carries the Florida numbers in full. The Texas LLC cost guide does the same for Texas.

If you live in Nevada, the extra layer disappears, and the state fees are simply what you pay. You are also your own Nevada agent only if you have a physical Nevada address and can meet the business-hours availability rule, which most home-based sellers decide against.

The “no state income tax” caveat

The Governor’s Office of Economic Development says on its Nevada Life page that Nevada has no state income tax for individuals or corporations. The Department of Taxation pages I loaded did not state that in plain words, so I am relying on the GOED page and not on a tax statute.

More important, a Nevada LLC does not remove the income tax of the state where you live. Where you pay tax on your store’s profit generally follows where you live and where you do business, not where the LLC was filed. That is my understanding, not a rule from an official page I could cite, so ask a CPA before you form in Nevada to save on income tax. Sales tax is a separate track: Nevada’s Department of Taxation handles Nevada sales and use tax, and your obligations in other states depend on where you sell.

Privacy: what I can and cannot say

The state’s form is called the Initial List of Managers or Members, and the instructions say a real person signs it. The instructions also say that for a manually submitted list, the members and employees listed on the form appear in the state’s system and are visible online, and Bizee’s Nevada page notes the list requires manager or managing member names. I did not find a page that spells out every field that becomes public, so I will not claim more than that. The registered agent’s details are also on file. If privacy is the reason you are considering Nevada, read the current form and the public search yourself before paying, and note that banks, marketplaces and the IRS will still ask who owns the company.

When does Nevada make sense? From the numbers, if you live in Nevada, or you have a specific benefit you can name and price against roughly $1,850 over three years in the Florida example. If you cannot name the benefit, a home-state LLC is usually simpler. This is opinion, not advice. My Wyoming LLC cost guide lets you run the same math for Wyoming. The Delaware LLC cost guide does it for Delaware.

What Formation Services Show for a Nevada LLC Today

A formation service files the Articles for you, so you pay Nevada’s $425 plus the service’s own fee. I loaded each service’s official pages in November 2026. The prices below are the national package prices those pages showed, and where a page did not show a Nevada fee or an agent renewal price, the table says “not shown.”

These are the vendor pages I used:

• Northwest Registered Agent, Nevada LLC page
• Northwest Registered Agent, LLC formation page
• Bizee pricing page
• Bizee Nevada LLC page
• ZenBusiness formation plans page
• ZenBusiness pricing page (agent, annual report and EIN add-ons)
• LegalZoom LLC overview page

Northwest’s formation page says the $39 service includes a business address and compliance reminders, and its Nevada page did not show the service fee or say how long the included agent service lasts, so check at checkout. ZenBusiness says none of its plans includes a registered agent, lists Pro and Premium renewing at $199 and $299 a year, and prices an annual report filing at $100 per report. Its Starter plan processes in 7 to 10 business days and the other two in 1 business day, per the page, and those times exclude the state’s own processing. LegalZoom’s page, viewed rendered in a browser, shows Basic, Pro and Premium, with Pro including an operating agreement and EIN. Pro and Premium also include 30 days of an attorney plan that auto-charges $49 a month afterward, and Premium adds six months of bookkeeping tools renewing at $9.99 a month. A text-only read of the same page showed different tier names, so treat the tier labels as something to confirm at checkout.

Package contents can change at checkout, so this is a snapshot as of November 2026, not a quote. For the same comparison across states, see my guide to what it costs to form an LLC.

Worked Cost Scenarios (Examples Only)

All scenarios use numbers from the pages above and state their assumptions. They are examples, not a recommendation, and a real order can differ. I leave out card processing fees so every row is on the same footing, and each row uses the $425 state total.

Scenario E assumes you buy the $199 agent on top of the free Starter plan, because ZenBusiness lists it as a separate item. Scenario C relies on the free first-year agent, and you would then need a year-two agent plan that the Bizee pages I loaded did not price. Scenarios B and G are incomplete by design, because those pages did not show everything.

Nevada’s recurring charge is large next to Wyoming’s, so the multi-year view matters. The table below covers formation plus three annual lists at $350 each, with no expedite, amendments or card fees.

The spread, from $1,764 to $2,372, comes from agent and filing-service choices, not from the state. The state charges the same $350 whoever clicks submit. The $1,050 in annual lists and licenses is the largest piece of every row, which is why the yearly number is the one I would check first.

Costs Outside the State Fee

The state fee, the agent and the annual list are the parts you can verify on an official page. A working store has other costs I did not price from official sources, so I list them as a checklist, not as numbers:

• Business bank account and payment processing: these usually need your formation paperwork, and fees vary by provider. Payment costs are part of your store’s margin, so model them early.
• Business address or mailbox: if you want a mail address that is not your home, see my comparison of the best virtual business address for an LLC.
• Sales tax registration: a separate process that I did not research or price here. Nevada’s Department of Taxation handles Nevada sales and use tax, and your home state handles yours.
• Home-state registration: the foreign registration costs in the table earlier, which are the line most likely to surprise someone who formed in Nevada to save money.

If you are still deciding what to sell, start with my guide to high-ticket dropshipping.

My list of high-ticket niches helps you choose a category.

Once you have a niche, the step-by-step supplier guide covers sourcing, which is where a registered entity often comes up. For the bigger picture of entity, bank account and payments, read my business formation guide for high-ticket dropshipping.

My Take: Where the Money Goes

This is opinion, not advice. For a Nevada LLC the $75 Articles fee is the smallest decision. The $350 yearly list and license is the number that never goes away, the agent is the next recurring line, and home-state registration decides whether Nevada was worth it. Before you pay anyone, write down the three-year number for your own state both ways, the way I did for Florida and Texas above. If Nevada still wins on a specific benefit you can name, form there with your eyes open. If you cannot name the benefit, a home-state LLC is usually simpler.

One more note on trust. Formation services and some older guides describe Nevada fees, expedite options and processing times differently from each other, and the state’s own pages carry revision dates for a reason, so use the Secretary of State’s instructions and the statutes for the numbers that apply to you.

If you would rather have help deciding on structure, a niche and a first supplier, that is what my private coaching is for.

Frequently Asked Questions

How much does it cost to form an LLC in Nevada?
As of November 2026 the Nevada Secretary of State’s formation instructions show $75 for the Articles of Organization, $150 for the Initial List of Managers or Members and $200 for the State Business License, which adds up to $425. Paying by card adds a 2.5% non-refundable fee. You also need a registered agent with a physical Nevada address, and formation services add their own fee on top.

How much is the Nevada LLC annual list and business license?
The annual list is $150 under NRS 86.263 and the license renewal is $200 under NRS Chapter 76, so $350 a year, due by the last day of your formation anniversary month. A late list adds a $75 penalty and a late license adds $100. Reinstatement after revocation is $300 plus unpaid fees and penalties.

Does a small online store owe the Nevada commerce tax?
Usually not. The Department of Taxation says the commerce tax applies when Nevada gross revenue in a taxable year is above $4,000,000, and entities at or under that amount have no filing requirement. The year runs July 1 to June 30 and the return is due 45 days later. How an online seller sources revenue to Nevada is a question for the Department or a CPA.

Can I speed up a Nevada LLC filing?
Yes, for a fee. The state’s instructions list a 24-hour tier at $125 for most filings, a 2-hour tier at $500 per item and a 1-hour tier at $1,000 per item, all added to the standard fee. Confirm how many items your formation counts as before paying, because the add-on is per item.

Does a Nevada LLC save money if I live somewhere else?
Usually not on fees. Your home state generally expects a foreign registration, which showed $125 in Florida and $750 in Texas on the pages I loaded, and you still pay Nevada’s $350 a year and an agent. Any income tax benefit depends on your own facts, so confirm with a CPA. This is not legal or tax advice.

Related Articles

If you are weighing Nevada for a store, these posts cover the next decisions.

• How to Form an LLC in Nevada: Pros, Cons, and Steps
• Delaware LLC vs Nevada LLC: Full Comparison
• Nevada LLC vs Delaware LLC: Asset Protection Comparison
• How to Form an LLC: The Complete Step-by-Step Guide
• Best LLC Formation Services for High-Ticket Dropshipping in 2026

Trevor Fenner

Trevor Fenner is an ecommerce entrepreneur and world traveler from Seattle, Washington, and the founder of Ecommerce Paradise, a platform focused on helping entrepreneurs build and scale profitable high-ticket ecommerce and dropshipping businesses. With over a decade of hands-on experience, Trevor specializes in high-ticket dropshipping strategy, niche and product selection, supplier recruiting and onboarding, Google & Bing Shopping ads, ecommerce SEO, and systems-driven automation and scaling. Through Ecommerce Paradise, he provides free education via in-depth guides like How to Start High-Ticket Dropshipping, advanced training through the High-Ticket Dropshipping Masterclass, and fully done-for-you turnkey ecommerce services for entrepreneurs who want a faster, more hands-off path to growth. Trevor is known for emphasizing sustainable, real-world ecommerce models over hype-driven tactics, helping store owners build scalable, sellable, and location-independent brands.

He maintains homes in Seattle and Bali, spends most of the year overseas, and usually returns to Seattle for about a month each summer.

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