Ajman Free Zone (AFZ) is the emirate's main free zone, covering trading, industrial, service and freelance licence categories, and is a frequent direct comparison against SHAMS, UAQFTZ and Fujairah Creative City for founders shopping for the most affordable viable UAE company or freelance permit.
What Ajman Free Zone is built for
AFZ licenses general trading, industrial, service and freelance activities under one authority, with both flexi-desk and physical office or warehouse packages depending on your operational needs. It offers a genuinely broad activity list for a budget-tier free zone, which has made it a consistently popular choice beyond just cost alone.
Costs and what drives them
AFZ is one of the UAE's lowest-cost entry points into company formation, whether for a full trading company or a freelance permit. See it compared directly against SHAMS, RAKEZ, UAQFTZ and Fujairah Creative City in this site's Freelance Permit Cost Comparison, or model a full company package with the Business Setup Cost Calculator.
Is Ajman Free Zone the right fit?
For a straightforward trading, service or freelance business without a need for a Dubai or Abu Dhabi address, AFZ is worth pricing first purely on cost and its broad activity list. This site's Free Zone vs Mainland Tool can help confirm the decision against mainland or a different free zone for your specific activity.