FREE ZONE FILE
Ajman Media City Free Zone
What we think
Publishes the renewal price for every package, which almost nobody else does, and the cheapest entry price in the country at AED 4,999 renewing at the same figure. Its own landing page still displays a second, older set of packages nobody has taken down.
Publishes its prices, including renewalPackages
- Up to 10 activities, up to 10 shareholders
- Co-working space
- 0 visa
- Renewal at the same price, AED 4,999
- Up to 10 activities, up to 10 shareholders
- 1 residence visa, Emirates ID and medical included
- Establishment card, e-channel, status change, investor security approval
- Renewal AED 8,999
- Up to 10 activities, up to 10 shareholders
- 2 residence visas, Emirates ID and medical included
- Renewal AED 10,999
- Up to 10 activities, up to 10 shareholders
- 3 residence visas
- Renewal AED 14,999
Where each line was read: product page, a commercial commitment on the zone's own site. Official document, a downloadable schedule, regulation or terms. Blog only, an article on the zone's site, editorial and not contractual. Not published, the zone does not say.
Visas
Offices and desks
Year two, and closing down
The two figures nobody advertises. A cheap first year means nothing if year two doubles, and nothing at all if leaving costs a fortune.
Renewal, per year
Published for every package: AED 4,999 for Business Club, AED 8,999 for Visionary, AED 10,999 for Pioneer, AED 14,999 for Innovator. The renewal covers the licence, co-working, utilities, establishment card and e-channel. Visa renewal is not included and its cost is not published.
Closing the company
Not published. The site carries no terms of sale at all, only a privacy policy, so neither the cost nor the procedure of closing is stated anywhere.
Other fees and penalties
Binding terms
- Licences are valid for one year from the issue date.
- Some activities are regulated by third party authorities and require a no objection certificate.
- Non UAE nationals can obtain non free zone professional licences without a local sponsor.
- One person may be shareholder, director, secretary and manager at the same time.
- The freelance permit is limited to media and education professions.
- Beneficial owner declaration is compulsory.
- Corporate tax law and the qualifying income decision are both listed, so no automatic exemption is promised.
Contradictions on the zone's own site
- Two price lists sit on the same official landing page. The reference list is Business Club at AED 4,999 with 10 activities and no office. The residual list shows a Kickstarter package at AED 5,555 with 5 activities and a co-working lease. Kickstarter, Freedom and Starter Visa have no product page anywhere on amc.gov.ae.
- A Founders Package is still indexed by search engines and returns a 404.
What this zone does not publish
- The year the zone was created, and its founding decree.
- The unit price of a visa and the cost of renewing one.
- The rule linking visa quota to office type.
- Every office and warehouse price.
- Minimum capital, audit obligation, substance requirements.
- Any contractual terms of sale. The site carries only a privacy policy.
- Whether a business introducer programme exists at all.
Where every figure above comes from
- amc.gov.ae/packages
- amc.gov.ae/business-club-package
- amc.gov.ae/visionary-package
- amc.gov.ae/pioneer-package
- amc.gov.ae/innovator-package
- amc.gov.ae/faq
- amc.gov.ae/rules-regulations
- ajmanmediacity.amc.gov.ae
Read on the zone's official site on 13 aout 2026. We print the addresses rather than link them, so you can check any figure word for word, and so this page stays a comparison rather than a doorway.
AED 1,000 back on this zone
This zone pays us an introduction fee, and we hand AED 1,000 of it back to you once your trade licence has actually been issued. You pay the zone exactly what you would pay going direct, we never take a dirham from you, and the cashback is only due if you filled in the Free Zone Radar form first.
Figures quoted from the zone are left in the language the zone published them in, so you can check them word for word. This file is available in English and French. The comparator itself is in Arabic too.