Transparent pricing across four anonymous-friendly states. Anonymous LLC framing at $397 all-in, or state-specific framing with state fees broken out line by line.
Every price on this page is a final number. The Anonymousllc.co service fee covers the work we do — state filing, registered agent year one, operating agreement drafting, EIN acquisition, and applications to four to five US banks. The state-fee line is the cash the Secretary of State charges to file the Articles. The total is what hits your card. There is no "essentials" upsell at checkout, no optional EIN add-on (EIN is bundled), no separate operating-agreement fee, no priority-processing charge.
The page below covers the all-in Anonymous LLC framing, the state-by-state broken-out framing, the standalone services (EIN, ITIN, BOI, RA), how the $397 all-in price was actually constructed, five-year total cost of ownership across the four states, the case for why New Mexico's $50 cheaper sticker price is occasionally a false economy on the banking side, side-by-side comparison against the major incumbents (LegalZoom, Stripe Atlas, Northwest, IncFile), and the full refund policy. Skim what is relevant. WhatsApp us for anything else.
For buyers who want anonymity and don't care which of the four anonymous states delivers it. Wyoming-fulfilled on the backend. One number, no state-fee surprise.
For buyers who already know which state they want. Anonymousllc.co portion covers formation work + RA year 1 + OA + EIN + banking. State fee is what the Secretary of State charges to file the Articles.
| State | Anonymousllc.co | State fee | Total | Annual cost (year 2+) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wyoming | $297 | $100 state fee | $397 | $60 annual report + $100/yr RA renewal |
| New Mexico | $297 | $50 state fee | $347 | $100/yr RA renewal only (no annual report) |
| Delaware | $297 | $110 state fee | $407 | $300 franchise tax + $100/yr RA renewal |
| Nevada | $297 | $425 state fees | $722 | $350/yr (BL + Annual List) + $100/yr RA renewal |
New Mexico is the cheapest total at $347 — but banking is harder with NM LLCs vs Wyoming. Most non-resident buyers choose Wyoming for the banking ecosystem.
Already have an LLC? Need just an EIN, ITIN, BOI filing, or new registered agent? Each is purchasable separately at a single fixed price.
| Service | Price | Who it's for | Turnaround |
|---|---|---|---|
| EIN Acquisition | $99 | Any buyer needing EIN (US-resident or non-resident — same workflow) | 5-7 business days (US-resident) / 4-6 weeks (non-resident fax) |
| ITIN Application | $299 | Non-resident founder needing personal US tax ID (PayPal verification, personal tax filing, etc.) | 8-12 weeks (IRS processing) |
| BOI Initial Filing | $150 | Existing LLC owner needing BOI filing (foreign reporting companies still obligated; domestic exempt under March 2025 IFR) | Same day filing once intake complete |
| Registered Agent (Standalone) | $100/year | Existing LLC owner switching agents (or new formation buyer wanting RA only) | Activated within 1 business day |
The $397 all-in number was not pulled out of thin air. It was built up from the actual cost of fulfilment plus a service margin, and then sanity-checked against the broken-out Wyoming pricing so the two framings reconcile.
Add those up and you land at roughly $385–$420. We round to $397 for the all-in framing because it is a memorable price point that comfortably absorbs the Wyoming state fee without forcing us to over-charge on the broken-out framing. The state-specific Wyoming SKU at $297 + $100 reaches the same $397 total via a different presentation. Both framings exist because two distinct buyer mindsets want two distinct presentations of the same backend filing.
The New Mexico, Delaware, and Nevada SKUs use the same approach with their respective state fees substituted. The Nevada service fee is $397 (versus $297 for the other three) because the Nevada workflow involves an extra State Business License step that adds roughly $50–$80 of marginal labor and document handling per formation. Everything else — operating agreement, EIN, bank applications, registered agent year one — is identical scope across all four states. We do not charge more for a state simply because we could; we charge more when the workflow is materially more work.
Headline formation price is only one input. What an LLC really costs over its first five years depends on state annual fees, registered agent renewal, and ongoing compliance filings. Here is the apples-to-apples comparison across the four anonymous-friendly states, assuming Anonymousllc.co continues as registered agent every year and no extra services are purchased.
| State | Year 1 (formation) | Year 2-5 annual | 5-year total | What drives the recurring cost |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wyoming | $397 | $160/yr | $1,037 | $60 annual report + $100 RA renewal |
| New Mexico | $347 | $100/yr | $747 | RA renewal only — no annual report, no state annual fee |
| Delaware | $407 | $400/yr | $2,007 | $300 franchise tax + $100 RA renewal |
| Nevada | $722 | $450/yr | $2,622 | $200 business license + $150 list + $100 RA renewal |
| Anonymous LLC (all-in, WY-fulfilled) | $397 | $160/yr | $1,037 | Identical to Wyoming on the backend |
On a pure dollars-out basis, New Mexico is the cheapest by a meaningful margin: $290 cheaper than Wyoming over five years, $1,260 cheaper than Delaware, $1,875 cheaper than Nevada. If the LLC is going to hold a passive asset, never bank in the US, and generate no operating activity, New Mexico is a defensible pick. If the LLC is going to operate — receive customer payments, pay vendors, hire — the math changes (see the next section). Wyoming's extra $58/year ($290 over five years) buys meaningful banking ecosystem advantages, stronger single-member charging-order protection, and a deeper pool of case law than New Mexico. For most operating businesses, that is money well spent. Delaware's $300/year franchise tax is the cost of access to the Court of Chancery and the venture-capital-standard structure; it is worth it for VC-track founders and overhead for everyone else. Nevada is the most expensive — only justified when an asset-protection planner specifically directs the structure or when the LLC has genuine Nevada nexus.
New Mexico is $347 total — $50 cheaper than Wyoming on the headline. That delta widens to $290 over five years once Wyoming's $60 annual report is factored in. On paper, this is the obvious budget pick. In practice, the founders we serve who optimised for New Mexico on price alone — and who needed to operate the business through it, not just hold an asset in it — frequently discovered that the $50 saving cost them multiples of that in banking friction.
US fintech banks (Mercury, Relay, Bluevine) have approved New Mexico LLCs for years without obvious bias, but the practical approval rate is slightly lower than Wyoming and the documentation review tends to be tighter. The reasons are not nefarious — they are pattern-matching. Mercury sees vastly more Wyoming LLCs than New Mexico LLCs in its pipeline, its risk model is more confident about the Wyoming profile, and an NM LLC with an unusual founder country or an unusual business model gets escalated more often. For a US-resident founder running a clean e-commerce or SaaS business, the difference is negligible. For a non-resident founder from a higher-friction country, a $50 saving at formation can translate to an extra two weeks of bank-approval back-and-forth, a second-round application packet to a different bank, or in a small number of cases, no approval at all from the first-choice partner.
A worked example. A non-resident founder forms in New Mexico to save $50 versus Wyoming. Mercury asks two extra documentation rounds, takes 14 days instead of 7. The founder is two weeks late to switch payment processing from a personal account to the business account. Those two weeks coincide with a payout cycle that hits the personal account and triggers a separate personal-tax issue at year-end. Suddenly the $50 saving has cost the founder a chunk of accounting cleanup. The same Wyoming LLC would have shipped cleanly. We have seen this pattern enough times that we now actively recommend Wyoming for any operating business intended to bank within the first 30 days of formation, and recommend New Mexico for passive-holding use cases (intellectual property, real estate held in another entity, family-asset holders) where banking is not on the critical path.
For an asset-holding LLC, New Mexico is excellent. For an operating LLC, the math usually tips toward Wyoming — even though the headline price is $50 higher. We will say this directly during intake. If you have a strong New Mexico preference for a specific reason, we will form there happily. We are not steering — we are sharing the pattern we see, weekly, across hundreds of formations.
Five common alternatives, with the realistic all-in scope (not the headline price). All assume a Wyoming anonymous LLC with EIN, operating agreement, registered agent year one, and at least one bank account.
| Provider | Headline price | Realistic total (matched scope) | Where the gap comes from |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anonymousllc.co | $397 all-in (or $297 + $100) | $397 | Everything bundled — no gap |
| LegalZoom | $0–$349 + state | ~$650–$900 | EIN $79, OA $99, expedited $50, RA $249/y |
| Stripe Atlas | $500 flat + state | ~$610 | Delaware only; bank is Mercury (same as our default) |
| Northwest RA | $39 + $125 RA + state | ~$390 (no EIN, no OA, no bank apps) | EIN +$200 separately; bank apps not offered |
| IncFile / Bizee | $0 + state | ~$500–$700 | EIN $70, OA $50, RA $119/y, banking referral fees |
The headline-price gap between us and the cheapest alternatives mostly disappears once matched scope is loaded. We are not the lowest-cost option in the market and we do not try to be — IncFile and Northwest at base tier both look cheaper. The argument for us is bundling (you do not get a surprise EIN charge), banking inclusion (most competitors do not submit bank applications at all), founder-led support (WhatsApp, not a phone queue), and an explicit non-resident workflow (most US-focused services are not designed for it). On a per-dollar-of-realised-scope basis we are competitive across the board.
We try to be unusually clear about refunds because the formation industry has earned a reputation for hostile cancellation terms. Here is exactly how it works.
Full 100% refund. Typical window: 24-48 hours after payment, before we submit Articles of Organization to the Secretary of State. If your intake is delayed, that window naturally extends — we do not submit anything to the state until your intake is complete and you have confirmed the LLC name, member structure, and use case.
State fee is non-refundable (the Secretary of State does not refund). Our service fee is refunded proportional to work completed — typically 70-80% back, depending on how far we have moved into the workflow. We do not charge cancellation fees.
State fee is gone (already paid). EIN work is delivered and non-refundable. Operating agreement is delivered and non-refundable. Banking-application labor that has not yet been performed is refundable. Typical refund here: 20-30% of the service fee.
Once the LLC is formed, EIN issued, OA delivered, and banking applications have been submitted, the package is considered delivered. We do not refund delivered work. We do, however, fix any errors on our side at no charge, indefinitely.
Bank approval is not guaranteed and is not refundable on its own. We apply to 4-5 banks per formation; the realistic approval rate across the basket is above 90%, but Mercury / Relay / Bluevine each make independent risk decisions and we do not control their outcomes. In the small number of cases where no partner approves (under 5% of formations), we work with you on documentation improvements and reapplication to alternative partners at no additional charge. We do not refund the formation fee for a banking outcome we cannot guarantee — but we do not abandon a customer in limbo either.
Disputed charges are handled case by case. We have a long pattern of resolving disputes in the customer's favor when something goes wrong on our side (missed deadline, document error, miscommunication). We are a small founder-led team; our reputation is the asset, and chargebacks for legitimate complaints are easier and cheaper than litigation. If you have an unresolved issue, message the founder on WhatsApp first — most refund disputes that escalate to Stripe could have been resolved in two messages.
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