See what a US company costs you, in 60 seconds
The numbers differ on every site. Here 51 states sit on one screen, each figure with its source and check date.
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Wyoming · Do it yourself
One-off cash out
August 25, 2026
Checked August 25, 2026
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This is the only amount paid in the formation year. Annual costs start in year two.
Year 1 line itemsSee line itemsHide line items$139
- Registered agent formation service feellcuniversity.com2026-08-25verified$39
The do-it-yourself route starts from the registered agent's $39 service fee, and that fee carries the first year of registered agent service with it.
- State formation feesos.wyo.gov2026-08-25verified$100
- Registered agent, year 1registeredagentcost.com2026-08-25verified$0
First year of agent service included. Payment starts in year two.
- EINirs.gov2026-08-25verified$0
Free from the IRS, and you can file it yourself. You fax the SS-4 and write Foreign on line 7b instead of an SSN. Roughly four business days by fax, though IRS workload moves that number.
- State annual item, year 1sos.wyo.gov2026-08-25verified$0
No state annual report is due in the formation year. The first payment starts in the following period.
- not in the totalYear 1 filing (Form 5472 + 1120)form5472.online2026-08-25verified$299 - $500
The formation year's filing is submitted the following year. It sits out of the year 1 total to avoid double counting and appears in the annual items.
To do it yourself
You can set the US company up yourself: through this link the service is $39 plus the state fee, with the first year of address, legal mail handling and mail forwarding included. Agency packages ask $449 and up for comparable scope.
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Set up your own company step by step
The US Company Formation Kit gives you the order: company, tax number (EIN), bank account, Stripe and Apple Wallet. At the end you have a line that collects dollars.
What the kit does for you
All four gates of the setup are written out down to the form fields. Nothing is left to search for.
You fill the order form correctly
Which field takes what, which box adds 200 dollars and what the 39 dollar package includes are all written out one by one.
You pass the EIN application in one go
All 18 lines of the SS-4 form are written line by line. The checklist before the fax is in the kit too.
You open the bank account on the first try
The most common reason for a decline is the address. Which address Mercury accepts and which one it does not is written out clearly.
You keep up with the annual calendar
Form 5472, the state report and the renewal dates sit in one table with their amounts.
Who it is for
The kit was written with five groups in mind, all setting up a US company to collect dollars.
Digital creators
You take payments for templates and kits under your own company name.
Mobile app builders
You open your App Store and Play Store developer accounts under the company name. The kit gives the steps for getting the D-U-N-S number both stores ask for, and payments land in the US bank account.
Ecommerce sellers
You open your Stripe, PayPal and marketplace US accounts, and collections gather in a single currency.
Indie hackers
You take subscription payments for SaaS and micro products through Stripe.
Freelancers
You invoice overseas clients in USD or EUR, and the money arrives in the US account.
States side by side
Sorted by annual load. The selected state stays marked in the row.
| STATE | FORMATION FEE | ANNUAL | STATUS |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alabama | $200 | $0 | LOW |
| Arizona | $50 | $0 | LOW |
| Idaho | $100 | $0 | LOW |
| Minnesota | $155 | $0 | LOW |
| Mississippi | $50 | $0 | LOW |
| Missouri | $50 | $0 | LOW |
| New Mexico | $50 | $0 | LOW |
| Ohio | $99 | $0 | LOW |
This tool gives no tax or legal advice; it is educational. Figures were verified as of 25 August 2026. State fees and service prices change during the year, so re-check the official source on the day you file.
Last checked: August 25, 2026 · Next refresh: September 3, 2026
Common questions
There are three items on the annual side. Set it up through a registered agent and the first year of service is included, so year one is just the formation cost.
From year two, three items start: registered agent at $125, the state's annual item (New Mexico $0, Wyoming $60, Florida $138.75, Delaware $400), and Form 5472 prep. Self-file and that third line is zero; hire it out and it typically runs $299 to $500.
Self-filed, the annual load drops to $125 in New Mexico. Hired out at the mid band, New Mexico runs $424 - $625 and Delaware $824 - $1,025. Nothing hidden, every line sits in the breakdown.
Checked 25 August 2026
The cost of this structure is in dollars. Once a line that earns dollars is running, the expense and the revenue meet in the same currency and exchange-rate moves drop out of the calculation.
The order that works is revenue first. Build one line that sells abroad, get dollars coming in, then build the structure that carries them. The annual fixed cost runs from $125 at the low end to $1,025 at the high end, and dollar revenue that covers it comfortably makes the structure pay for itself.
When this tool shows a local-currency figure it pulls the rate live and stores no fixed rate anywhere. If the rate cannot be fetched, no conversion is shown at all.
At low volume they are a reasonable answer and they genuinely work. The fragility is also plain: those accounts can close unilaterally, what happens to the balance and the flow stops being your call, and there is often no institution to appeal to.
An LLC with a US bank account is a structure filed in your own name. Even under review there is an institution running a process, and documents can be shown to keep going.
The decision tracks volume. At a few hundred dollars a month the cost of fragility is low. Once the main revenue runs through it, one closure stalls everything for weeks, and at that point the annual fixed cost above is cheap.
Apple Pay is not officially supported in Turkey. Turkey is absent from Apple's own country list, checked on 25 August 2026.
In my setup the US bank card went into Apple Wallet and I use it. That is not a guarantee from Apple, and results can differ by merchant terminal.
So read it as a likely outcome rather than a promise. Let payments, collections and customers drive the LLC decision. If Apple Wallet works, treat it as a bonus on top.
Source: Apple country list, 25 August 2026
This tool does no tax math and gives no tax advice.
One federal item does need to be known: a foreign-owned single-member LLC files Form 5472 with a pro-forma Form 1120 every year, even with zero income. Form 7004 buys extra time when it is needed. Both dates belong in a calendar.
Anything on the Turkish side, including reporting and place-of-management questions, is a separate matter for an accountant. What is here is educational.
Source: IRS Form 5472 instructions
Address is the most common reason for rejection and closure, and it is also the most commonly confused part.
Mercury's own eligibility page says it directly: for the principal place of business, a US or international address is accepted, and residential addresses are accepted. What is not accepted: registered agent addresses, PO boxes and store-type mailbox addresses.
So a home address abroad qualifies, and the free business address the registered agent hands over does not. Applying with that distinction in mind removes the single biggest rejection cause up front.
Turkey is not on Mercury's prohibited-country list, checked on 25 August 2026. The risk is not zero, but with the right address and the right documents the application becomes largely predictable.
Source: Mercury eligibility and prohibited-country pages, 25 August 2026
Every line item carries the source domain and the date it was checked. Amounts are read from the Secretary of State pages and the providers' own public price pages.
Where sources disagree, the line note says which figure was used. The list is refreshed monthly and the refresh date sits at the foot of the page.