FREE ZONE FILE
Dubai Outsource City
What we think
Publishes one hard number and it is not a price: a minimum share capital of AED 300,000, the highest of the four TECOM zones in this batch. Everything else comes from the regulator's schedule.
Publishes its headline prices, but not everythingPackages
No package price is published. No licence package is published. The Dubai Development Authority schedule applies.
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
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 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
Binding terms
- Minimum share capital is AED 300,000, materially higher than the other Dubai Development Authority zones.
- Licences are issued and priced by the Dubai Development Authority.
What this zone does not publish
- Licence price on the zone's own website.
- Second-year renewal price.
- Employee visa cost and visa quota.
- Office rents.
- Trade name reservation fee.
- Late renewal penalties.
- Audit obligation.
- Any agent or referral commission terms.
Where every figure above comes from
- dda.gov.ae, fee schedule
- dubaioutsourcecity.ae
- tecomgroup.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.