Must the LLC name a registered agent?
Every LLC must name a registered agent with an in-state street address.
The law underneath: O.C.G.A. § 14-11-209. sos.ga.gov holds the original, confirmed October 2026
Who qualifies?
A Georgia resident, a Georgia corporation or LLC, or a corporation or LLC from another state with authority to do business in Georgia. An entity cannot be its own agent.
If you qualify, you can serve yourself at no cost.
What is inside an agent's price?
A year of agent service runs $99 to $149 with our picks, and three years run $297 to $447.
No state fee depends on the agent you name.
What does an agent handle for the LLC?
The agent is the party that signs for lawsuits and state mail addressed to the LLC, at a Georgia street address.
What matters is that nothing important sits unnoticed while you are away. What is service of process?
What does the LLC owe the state each year?
Underneath it all, one filing repeats: the annual registration, every year, at $60 each time. The state phrases its deadline like this: April 1.
sos.ga.gov holds the original, confirmed October 2026
Why is the stack in this order?
On what is inside the price (29%), Mainstay Filing comes out ahead.
Five layers set the order: total across three years (34%), what is inside the price (29%), price laid out in the open (14%), how the renewal behaves (12%) and how far it reaches (11%).
Only the first pick holds up in all fifty states, and that counts the day the LLC registers elsewhere.
How we open it up