Albany County LLC Publication: Costs, Newspapers & Process (2026)
Albany County is one of the least expensive places in New York to publish an LLC — often a fraction of what the same six-week notice costs downstate. If your Articles of Organization name Albany County, that's good news for your wallet. Here's the real picture.
Your designated newspapers
Albany County's clerk designates roughly a dozen qualifying papers. You need one daily and one weekly. The ones that matter for cost:
- Cheapest daily: the Albany Times Union — the low-cost daily most Albany filings use.
- Other dailies: The Daily Gazette, The Leader-Herald, The Recorder (mid-tier), plus the major metros (New York Daily News, New York Post) at the high end.
- Cheapest weekly: the Mountain Eagle — a genuinely low-cost weekly.
- Other weeklies: City & State, New York Amsterdam News, and several community and specialty weeklies.
Because Albany designates several papers at very different prices, you can pick the cheapest lawful pair — and we show every option with its rate so you can.
What it costs in Albany
Two parts: the papers' listed rates plus a flat $149 — the $50 state certificate fee and our $99.
The box above names Albany's cheapest lawful pair from the listed rates — among the lowest totals of any county in the state. Pick pricier dailies and it climbs from there; we confirm each paper's exact rate before you approve anything.
Where a slot in that box reads we place it for you, no newspaper has published a rate with us in that county yet: we place the notice with a designated paper and confirm its price with you before anything is charged.
The process (same statewide)
Under NY LLC Law §206, your notice runs once a week for six weeks in both papers (12 insertions), within 120 days of formation. After the runs, both papers issue notarized affidavits; we file Form DOS-1708 with the $50 fee and deliver your Certificate of Publication.
One thing to confirm first
Your publication county is the one in your Articles of Organization — not where you operate. If your Articles say Albany, publish in Albany's papers even if you work elsewhere. Publish in the county your Articles name; if that county looks wrong, confirm it with your attorney before placing anything.
See Albany's designated papers and your exact deadline — look up your LLC.