How the numbers here are made
Every figure links to the page it came from and shows the date it was last checked. Where nothing is published, the site says so.
This site holds 43 sourced figures, 40 of them from a government page or from the issuing authority's own site. The rest are estimates published by a company, labelled as such wherever they appear. No figure on this site was estimated by us.
Where the figures come from
- Government fees: the authority's own service page. Visa fees come from GDRFA Dubai, work permit fees and corporate tax rates from the UAE government portal.
- Free zone prices: the zone's own website. A free zone sets its own licence fee, so its page is the primary source for it, even when that page is written as marketing.
- Company estimates: where a zone estimates someone else's charge, such as a medical test or monthly bookkeeping, the figure is marked as an estimate and attributed to the company that published it.
How official and unofficial figures are separated
Each fact carries an official flag. The Sources list at the foot of every page prints it as either "Official" or "Industry-reported", so you can tell at a glance whether a number is a tariff or a company's estimate of one. Nothing is presented as a government fee unless a government or issuing authority published it.
What we could not confirm
This matters as much as what is here. On 2026-09-12 the following could not be verified at an official source, so none of it appears as a figure anywhere on the site:
- Dubai mainland licence fees. The department's pages refused automated access.
- Fee amounts in Qatar and Kuwait. Both authorities publish rules and timeframes but not prices.
- Prices for IFZA, DMCC and Shams, none of which publishes a price list.
- The widely repeated AED 5,000 work permit premium for workers aged 65 and over.
- Industry claims such as "free zone licences from AED 5,500" or "golden visa all-in AED 14,000 to 25,000". Common online, sourced to nothing we could open.
One contradiction is worth naming. A search listing for the RAKEZ starter package still advertises a lower headline price than the live page shows. The figure used here is the one on the page today.
How they stay current
Every figure has an expiry date. A check before each deploy lists anything past it, and the number is re-verified at the source before it stays on the site. Free zone prices expire sooner than government fees here, because promotional pricing moves faster than a tariff.
What this site is not
It is not a government service and is not affiliated with any free zone authority, with GDRFA, with the Qatar Financial Centre or with KDIPA. Nothing here is legal, tax or immigration advice. Eligibility for any visa or licence is decided by the authority, not by this site.
How the site is paid for
When you ask for quotes, the request may be passed to business setup consultants, who may pay for that introduction. That never changes a published figure. Where a zone pays nobody and publishes nothing, the table still says "not published", which is the whole point.
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