DMV fee calculators by state

Pick your state below to itemize a registration, title transfer, renewal or late renewal down to the individual fee. If you would rather see how states compare on cost, the registration fee comparison ranks all 15 for the same car, and EV fees by state does the same for electric vehicles. To understand a charge rather than calculate it, start at every fee name explained.

We add a state only once its figures have been read off the issuing agency’s own schedule — the process is described in how we verify fees, and every correction since is listed in the fee change log.

Every state we cover

Worked figures are for a four-year-old $25,000 car bought from a dealer, calculated by the same engine that powers each state’s calculator.

Choose your state

Go straight to a transaction

Some states have a dedicated page for the transaction you are doing — a renewal, a title transfer, or catching up on an expired registration.

• California: registration renewal cost · late registration fees
• Texas: title transfer cost
• New York: registration renewal cost
• Pennsylvania: registration renewal cost
• Ohio: registration renewal cost
• North Carolina: registration renewal cost
• Michigan: title transfer cost
• Colorado: registration renewal cost
• Nevada: title transfer cost

Not seeing your state?

We add states as their fee schedules are verified, rather than publishing guesses for all fifty at once. If yours is missing, the registration fee calculator and the out-the-door price calculator still explain how the charges are built up, and you can tell us which state you need — it moves up the queue.