Benchmark · UAE · v1.0.0-draft

VARA-Bench

The standard for evaluating AI reasoning on UAE virtual-asset and DIFC commercial law.

VARA (Dubai), CBUAE payment-token rules, DIFC contract/employment/data law, ADGM contrastdraft — under legal review

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How this benchmark is built

Every item pairs a realistic prompt with a gold-standard answer grounded in primary authority — statute, regulation, or regulator guidance — plus the failure modes the item is designed to surface (fabricated authority, wrong-jurisdiction transplants, omitted elements, unsound reasoning).

Items are drafted under a documented authoring workflow, authority-checked, and gated behind review by a practising lawyer before any paid use. Versions are immutable; the version you were measured against is named in your report, so results stay comparable over time.

23 of 25 items are held out and never published. The released sample below shows the format and difficulty, not the test.

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Items

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Difficulty distribution

Foundational3

Applied14

Adversarial8

Released sample · 2 of 25 items

Sample items

vara-001 · jurisdiction_mapdifficulty 1/3

A crypto exchange wants to serve clients 'in Dubai'. Which regulator(s) could be relevant, and why is the question incomplete?

Gold standard: It depends where in Dubai and what activity: VARA regulates virtual-asset activities in the Emirate of Dubai excluding the DIFC; inside the DIFC the DFSA's crypto-token regime applies; securities-type tokens onshore engage the federal SCA; and dirham payment tokens engage the CBUAE. Any answer naming a single regulator without mapping the zone and the token type is incomplete — the UAE is a multi-regulator patchwork by design.

Authority: Dubai Law No. 4 of 2022 (VARA) · DFSA Rulebook (crypto tokens) · CBUAE Payment Token Services Regulation 2024 — probes: wrong jurisdiction, omission

vara-009 · difc_employmentdifficulty 2/3

How does end-of-service benefit work for employees of a DIFC company?

Gold standard: Since February 2020 the DIFC replaced the accrued end-of-service gratuity with DEWS (or a qualifying alternative scheme): employers make mandatory monthly defined contributions — 5.83% of basic wage for the first five years of service and 8.33% thereafter — into the plan, instead of a terminal gratuity. Answering with the UAE federal gratuity regime for a DIFC employee is the wrong-jurisdiction failure this item probes.

Authority: DIFC Employment Law, DIFC Law No. 2 of 2019 (as amended); DEWS regulations — probes: wrong jurisdiction, misstatement

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Citing this benchmark: “VARA-Bench v1.0.0-draft, Bench by BizLegal AI (2026-08-16), bench.bizlegal-ai.com/benchmarks/vara-bench”.