Is a registered agent required?
Every LLC must name a registered agent with an in-state street address.
Statute: 18 O.S. § 2010. peek at sos.ok.gov, confirmed October 2026
Who is allowed to be the agent?
The LLC itself, an Oklahoma resident, or a corporation, LLC or partnership formed in Oklahoma or qualified there.
A qualifying owner can be the agent for free.
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.
State fees stay the same whichever agent you pick.
Why does the state want an agent?
The agent is the party that signs for lawsuits and state mail addressed to the LLC, at a Oklahoma street address.
If papers arrive and nobody accepts them, a case can move ahead without the LLC. What is service of process?
What does the LLC owe the state each year?
Year after year the recurring job is the annual certificate: yearly, costing $25. The calendar line from the state reads anniversary date of the filing of the Articles of Organization.
peek at sos.ok.gov, confirmed August 2026
Why is the stack in this order?
On what is inside the price (29%), Mainstay Filing comes out ahead.
Two layers carry most of the weight, total across three years (34%) and what is inside the price (29%).
Reach decided it: fifty states against one.
How we open it up