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An out-of-state LLC in Colorado

If your out-of-state LLC does business in Colorado, it registers with the Colorado Secretary of State, Business Program for a fee of $100.

Do you need to register?

That depends on what the LLC does in Colorado, and Colorado’s statute is the authority. The law behind it, from the state’s own sources: Colorado Revised Statutes 2024, Title 7. If the answer is not clear, a Colorado attorney can say.

If you register: what to bring

Best 3 Foreign Registration Services in Colorado (2026)

Handing the Colorado registration to a service? In order of our preference.

  1. 1. Mainstay Filing $199 + the $100 state fee = $299; registered agent free for the first year, then $149 a year.
  2. 2. CO Registered Agent.org $199 + the $100 state fee = $299; registered agent included for the first year, then $99 a year.
  3. 3. Colorado Registered Agent.co $199 + the $100 state fee = $299; registered agent included for the first year, then $99 a year.

Service prices from each provider’s Colorado page, read October 29, 2026. The state fee is the official figure below and is paid to the Colorado Secretary of State, Business Program.

Where Colorado sits

9th cheapest of 50 at $100, in the band $100 to $149. It does not ask an LLC for paper from the formation state, unlike 36 others.

Colorado questions

Does an out-of-state LLC have to register in Colorado?

Colorado registers foreign LLCs through the Colorado Secretary of State, Business Program. Whether your activity requires it is set by Colorado’s statute, linked below; we do not offer one test for every state. If it does, the fee is $100.

What does an out-of-state LLC file in Colorado?

Statement of Foreign Entity Authority.

What does it keep up afterward?

Periodic report (Colorado Secretary of State), $25 (due: once a year, by the end of the second month after your report month), and a registered agent in the state.

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