DIFC vs ADGM

DIFC vs ADGM (difcvsadgm.com) is an independent comparison site for company setup in the UAE's two financial free zones, the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC) and Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM). It routes a business by activity to the regulator that must licence it (DFSA or FSRA), its prudential category and the base capital each rulebook requires, with guides on licence fees, licence categories, fund and SPV setup and the two court systems, citable datasets, an enquiry service that passes requests to setup providers, and its own OpenAPI-described API and MCP server served from its domain.

DIFC vs ADGM publishes 3 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network: Enquiry API, Guide API, and MCP API. Tagged areas include Company, Company Formation, Free Zones, United Arab Emirates, and Financial Regulation.

The DIFC vs ADGM catalog on APIs.io includes 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

DIFC vs ADGM’s developer surface includes authentication, support, and 23 more developer resources.

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41.5/100 developing Agent 29/100 agent ready Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0 · Show this score on your site →

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1 published contract 1 MCP Servers 2 Agent Skills

Company Company FormationFree ZonesUnited Arab Emirates Financial Regulation Licensing MCP

Kin Score

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scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0

Composite quality — 41.5/100 · developing

Contract Quality 10.4 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 3.1 / 17

Access Clarity 7.2 / 17

Operational Transparency 3.5 / 11

Contract Governance 3.6 / 10

Discoverability 5.5 / 9

Regulatory Posture 4.6 / 15

Agent readiness — 29/100 · agent ready

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 12 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 8 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 5 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 4 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Pagination 5 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

Regulatory Posture applies to this provider. Its tags matched the Horizontal (data, software, accessibility, platform) regime, so Regulatory Posture carries 15 points of the composite. If this regime is wrong for your business, say so on your provider repo — the applicability map is public and we will correct it.

Create-or-Update Ergonomics could not be measured. We hold no machine-readable contract for this provider to read, so there is nothing to measure a write surface against. Excluded rather than scored zero: never-measured and measured-empty are different facts. Publishing an OpenAPI is what makes this facet — and several others — scorable at all.

The six quality facets above are damped to 85 points between them, because the conditional facet above carries the other 15. That is why each facet's contribution is shown against a damped maximum: raising a quality facet moves the composite by 85% of its nominal weight, not 100%. The full arithmetic is at apis.io/rating/.

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Agent readiness — checks not met, largest first (exact, from this profile):

Idempotency +9 pts — OpenAPI mutating operations declare an idempotency key — a header, a request-body property, or a named de-duplication token whose own description says so (verified); else common[].type matches /idempoten/i (documented)
A2A Agent Card +8 pts — a2a/-a2a.yml manifest, graded on conformance.grade against A2A 1.0.0
Request/Response Examples +7 pts — share of operations carrying request/response examples; else an Examples / Code Samples link
Registration Without a Human +6 pts — a `registration_endpoint` in the served RFC 8414 / OIDC discovery document
Delegated User Identity +6 pts — a served discovery document listing authorization_code in grant_types_supported (served), else an oauth2 authorizationCode flow or openIdConnect declared in an OpenAPI (documented)
Typed Event Surface +6 pts — AsyncAPI document, OR webhooks/callbacks objects in the as-published OpenAPI, OR common[].type includes Webhooks

5 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

Kin Score — facets with the most composite points still available (weight × headroom):

Developer Ergonomics scores 18.5 — up to +16.3 composite points
Contract Quality scores 48.8 — up to +12.8 composite points
Access Clarity scores 42.1 — up to +11.6 composite points

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Standards implemented 2

Standards this provider implements or carries. De facto ones are profiled and measured by the API Commons; formal ones come from the standards directory and are linked by the provider's own tags. The evidence column says how each claim was established — not that it was made.

Model Context Protocol (MCP)

measured — observed by APIs.io (documented)

OpenAPI

measured — observed by APIs.io (published)

APIs 3

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

DIFC vs ADGM Enquiry API

enquiry

DIFC vs ADGM Guide API

checker

DIFC vs ADGM MCP API

The mcp API from DIFC vs ADGM — 1 operation(s) for mcp.

MCP Servers 1

Model Context Protocol servers that expose these APIs to AI agents.

DIFC vs ADGM MCP Server

The site's own remote MCP server (Streamable HTTP, JSON-RPC 2.0), served from difcvsadgm.com. Live initialize and tools/list returned the six tools below.

MCP SERVER

Agent Skills 2

Packaged agent skills for driving this provider's APIs from an AI assistant.

route-activity-to-regulator

AGENT SKILL

submit-setup-enquiry

AGENT SKILL

DIFC vs ADGM API pricing

Prices published by DIFC vs ADGM.

Plan	Price
Free tier	free tier

Plan details, limits and sources →

Rate limits

Free tier (per caller): Past the free tier for this caller; an access key raises the ceiling (docs/MCP.md).

Rate-limit details →

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Difcvsadgm Com Plans Pricing

1 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Difcvsadgm Com Rate Limits

1 limits

RATE LIMITS

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

DIFC vs ADGM API Rules

49 rules · 43 errors 1 warnings 5 info

SPECTRAL

OpenAPI Overlays 1

Overlays applied on top of this provider's contracts. Each card says who wrote it: a document the provider publishes, or one API Evangelist derived or generated.

Difcvsadgm Com Api Overlay

8 actions · update · difcvsadgm-com-openapi.yml

DERIVED

Security Posture 3

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Difcvsadgm Com Authentication

http · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Difcvsadgm Com Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Difcvsadgm Com Vulnerability Disclosure

security.txt · contact published

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Difcvsadgm Com Agentic Access

8 operations · 7 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Agent Surfaces 5

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

AgentSkill

LLMsTxt

MCPServer

WellKnown

Design & Contract 5

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Spectral

Vocabulary

Conventions

ErrorCatalog

Conformance

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

ToolCrosswalk

ToolCrosswalk

Access & Security 5

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Security

Security

SecurityTxt

SecurityTxt

Authentication

Authentication

VulnerabilityDisclosure

VulnerabilityDisclosure

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

RateLimits

RateLimits

Support

Support

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Plans

Plans

TermsOfService

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

Company 1

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Other 3

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Overlay

Overlay

Hosts

Hosts

Vendors

Vendors

Source (apis.yml)

aid: difcvsadgm-com
name: DIFC vs ADGM
description: DIFC vs ADGM (difcvsadgm.com) is an independent comparison site for company setup in the UAE's two financial
  free zones, the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC) and Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM). It routes a business by
  activity to the regulator that must licence it (DFSA or FSRA), its prudential category and the base capital each rulebook
  requires, with guides on licence fees, licence categories, fund and SPV setup and the two court systems, citable datasets,
  an enquiry service that passes requests to setup providers, and its own OpenAPI-described API and MCP server served from
  its domain.
url: https://artifacts.apis.io/difcvsadgm-com/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: harvest:mcp-registry
x-tier: profiled
x-tier-reason: enrichment pass 2026-11-05 (modular-v1; was harvest)
accessModel:
  pricing: free
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: true
  public: false
  gated: none
  gated_source:
  - onboarding
  label: Free · Self-serve signup
  confidence: high
  probe_state: covered
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  - rate-limits
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  method: derived
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-11-05'
modified: '2026-11-05'
tags:
- Company
- Company Formation
- Free Zones
- United Arab Emirates
- Financial Regulation
- Licensing
- MCP
tags_raw:
- Company
- Company Formation
- Free Zones
- UAE
- Financial Regulation
- Licensing
- MCP
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
image: https://difcvsadgm.com/og.png
common:
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/difcvsadgm-com-agentic-access.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/difcvsadgm-com-rate-limits.yml
- type: Plans
  url: plans/difcvsadgm-com-plans-pricing.yml
- type: Spectral
  url: rules/difcvsadgm-com-rules.yml
- type: Vocabulary
  url: vocabulary/difcvsadgm-com-vocabulary.yml
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/difcvsadgm-com-conventions.yml
- type: Security
  url: https://difcvsadgm.com/terms
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/difcvsadgm-com-problem-types.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/difcvsadgm-com-conformance.yml
- type: Overlay
  url: overlays/difcvsadgm-com-api-overlay.yaml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/difcvsadgm-com-llms.txt
- type: ToolCrosswalk
  url: mcp/difcvsadgm-com-tool-crosswalk.yml
- type: MCPServer
  url: mcp/difcvsadgm-com-mcp.yml
- type: SecurityTxt
  url: well-known/difcvsadgm-com-security.txt
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/difcvsadgm-com-well-known.yml
- type: Hosts
  url: hosts/difcvsadgm-com-hosts.yml
- type: Vendors
  url: vendors/difcvsadgm-com-vendors.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/difcvsadgm-com-authentication.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://difcvsadgm.com/
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/difcvsadgm-com-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/difcvsadgm-com-domain-security.yml
- type: Support
  url: https://difcvsadgm.com/contact/
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://difcvsadgm.com/terms/
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://difcvsadgm.com/privacy/
apis:
- aid: difcvsadgm-com:difcvsadgm-com-enquiry-api
  name: DIFC vs ADGM Enquiry API
  description: enquiry
  humanURL: https://difcvsadgm.com/
  baseURL: https://difcvsadgm.com
  tags:
  - enquiry
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/difcvsadgm-com-enquiry-api-openapi.yml
- aid: difcvsadgm-com:difcvsadgm-com-guide-api
  name: DIFC vs ADGM Guide API
  description: checker
  humanURL: https://difcvsadgm.com/
  baseURL: https://difcvsadgm.com
  tags:
  - guide
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/difcvsadgm-com-guide-api-openapi.yml
- aid: difcvsadgm-com:difcvsadgm-com-mcp-api
  name: DIFC vs ADGM MCP API
  description: The mcp API from DIFC vs ADGM — 1 operation(s) for mcp.
  humanURL: https://difcvsadgm.com/
  baseURL: https://difcvsadgm.com
  tags:
  - MCP
  tags_raw:
  - mcp
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/difcvsadgm-com-mcp-api-openapi.yml
x-coverage:
  state: covered
  reason: identity-verified
  detail: Name, description, tags, image and link pointers taken from the site homepage, /about/, llms.txt and the openapi.json
    info block. No docs portal, blog, GitHub org, pricing or sign-up page found; /api/ and /docs/ return 404.
  evidence:
  - url: https://difcvsadgm.com/
    status: 200
  - url: https://difcvsadgm.com/about/
    status: 200
  - url: https://difcvsadgm.com/contact/
    status: 200
  - url: https://difcvsadgm.com/terms/
    status: 200
  - url: https://difcvsadgm.com/privacy/
    status: 200
  - url: https://difcvsadgm.com/og.png
    status: 200
  - url: https://difcvsadgm.com/api/
    status: 404
  - url: https://difcvsadgm.com/docs/
    status: 404
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-11-05'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 31
  pass: modular-v1
  engine: identity=anthropic,contract=anthropic,surfaces=anthropic,docs=anthropic,regulatory=anthropic

DIFC vs ADGM API — frequently asked questions

Does DIFC vs ADGM have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 3 APIs from DIFC vs ADGM, including DIFC vs ADGM Enquiry API, DIFC vs ADGM Guide API and DIFC vs ADGM MCP API.

Is there an OpenAPI specification for the DIFC vs ADGM API?

Yes. APIs.io indexes 3 OpenAPI specifications for DIFC vs ADGM, each linked for download from this page.

How do I authenticate with the DIFC vs ADGM API?

DIFC vs ADGM uses bearer-token authentication (http · 1 scheme). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Difcvsadgm Com Authentication.

How much does the DIFC vs ADGM API cost?

DIFC vs ADGM publishes its prices; its Free tier plan is free tier as of 2026-11-05. APIs.io lists 1 pricing plan for DIFC vs ADGM, with each plan's price, limits and inclusions under Pricing on this page.

Does DIFC vs ADGM have an MCP server?

Yes. APIs.io lists 1 MCP server for DIFC vs ADGM: The site's own remote MCP server (Streamable HTTP, JSON-RPC 2.0), served from difcvsadgm.com. Live initialize and tools/list returned the six tools below.

Is the DIFC vs ADGM API ready for AI agents?

DIFC vs ADGM has a Kin Score of 41.5 out of 100 (developing) and an Agent Readiness score of 29.3 (agent-ready), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

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