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Dubai Media City

Emirate DubaiEstablished 2000Type Sector free zone, media
Authority TECOM Group, licensed by the Dubai Development Authority

What we think

Publishes only its freelance permit and its visa fees, plus capital and visa quota rules. Company licence prices, office rents, renewal, closure and penalties are all absent.

Publishes its headline prices, but not everything

Packages

Standard segment licence
15,000 AED
1 year licence · official document
  • One commercial or service segment
  • Registration AED 3,500 payable once
  • Additional segment AED 10,000
GoFreelance permit
7,520 AED
1 year licence · product page
  • High speed Wi-Fi
  • Meeting room access
  • 24/7 business centre access

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

Employment visa, 1 yearAED 4,600product page
Employment visa, 2 yearsAED 5,042product page
Establishment card, required before any visaAED 2,000product page
Quotaone employee sponsored per 80 square feet of leased spaceofficial document
Family sponsorshipavailable, no price publishedblog only

Offices and desks

Fitted and non-fitted commercial officesnot publishedblog only
Boutique villas and studiosnot publishedblog only
Coworking, one work permitnot publishedproduct page
Dedicated desk, two work permitsnot publishedproduct page
Private office, two work permits and abovenot publishedproduct page

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

15,000 AED

AED 15,000 per year for a standard segment. The Dubai Development Authority decision that sets this fee states it as an annual fee, so the same amount falls due at each renewal. A one-off registration of AED 3,500 applies in year one only.

Closing the company

AED 1,500

AED 1,500 to deregister a free zone limited liability company, reduced to AED 1,000 for companies incubated at in5. Published by the Dubai Development Authority, not by the zone.

Other fees and penalties

Minimum refundable share capital, free zone limited companyAED 10,000
Minimum capital, branch of a foreign or UAE companynone
GoFreelance permitAED 7,520
Establishment cardAED 2,000

Binding terms

Contradictions on the zone's own site

What this zone does not publish

Where every figure above comes from

  • dmc.ae/offerings/freelance-license
  • dmc.ae/connect/faqs
  • gofreelance.ae
  • tecomgroup.ae/products

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.

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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.

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