We do not publish a package price. Here is why, and what actually drives yours.
Every headline price you have seen is the cheapest possible configuration of somebody else's business. Six things decide what yours costs. All six are below, and none of them are on a competitor's pricing page.
What moves the number, in order of impact
Where your customers are
The single biggest cost driver. Mainland costs more than a free zone, but a free zone cannot invoice UAE customers directly. Choosing on price alone is how people end up paying twice.
How many visas you need
Each residence visa carries government fees, a medical, an Emirates ID and mandatory health insurance. Visas frequently cost more in total than the licence itself.
Your business activity
Some activities need approval from a second authority — municipality, RERA, health, civil defence. That adds fees and weeks. Some activities are also simply more expensive to license.
Shareholder nationality and structure
Affects which banks will take you, whether documents need attestation, and whether a corporate shareholder pushes you into a more expensive filing route.
Workspace
A flexi-desk is usually included. A private office is a separate annual rent plus Ejari, and mainland licences are generally tied to real space.
Which year you are looking at
Several cheap licences are first-year teasers that renew far higher. The number that matters is the three-year total, and almost nobody shows you that.
What we promise about the number you are given
The quote is the price
No fee appears later that was not on your quote.
Independent advice, in writing, free
Your structure recommended with reasons, before you pay anyone. No free zone pays us commission.
Banking checked first, not last
Your realistic odds of an account, before you spend on a licence.
What no package price includes
These are real costs every provider faces and most do not mention until you have paid a deposit. Yours are itemised in your written quote.
- !Medical fitness test fees paid directly to the screening centre
- !Emirates ID card fees paid to the authority
- !Mandatory health insurance for each visa holder
- !Attestation and legal translation of foreign documents
- !Office rent, Ejari registration and fit-out for mainland licences
- !Bank minimum balance requirements and monthly bank charges
- !External approvals where your activity requires them
- !Government fee increases announced after your quote is issued
Pricing questions
Why do you not publish package prices?
Because a price with no circumstances attached is a marketing number. The firms advertising a headline figure are advertising the cheapest possible configuration, usually licence-only, in the cheapest emirate, with no visa, no bank support and a renewal that costs far more. We would rather show you a number built from your actual answers, which takes a couple of minutes.
Are you the cheapest?
No, and we will not pretend to be. If your only criterion is the lowest first-year price, there are firms who will beat us, and you should use them. What we sell is picking the right structure the first time and staying in your corner afterwards.
Is the quote fixed?
Yes. Once we issue your written quotation, that is what you pay, with government fees itemised separately so you can see exactly what is ours and what is the authority's. Fees that appear later and were not on your quote are ours to absorb, not yours.
What happens if government fees change mid-process?
Government fee changes are outside anyone's control and are passed through at cost with documentation. You hear about it as soon as we do, not on the final invoice.
Do you take payment in instalments?
Government fees have to be paid in full at filing. Our own service fee can usually be split. Ask when you get your quote.
What does renewal cost?
Roughly the licence portion again each year, plus visa renewals every two to three years, plus insurance and accounting. Ask any provider for the three-year total. The ones with the cheapest headline price are the ones who will avoid answering.
Get the number built for your business
Six questions, then your itemised quote and a call to walk through it.
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