# FAQs: MENA Legal API

**What legal sources does Dike index?**
Dike indexes primary legal authority across MENA jurisdictions, starting with Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Egypt, including statutes, statutory codes, administrative regulations, and official gazettes, in both Arabic and English. Court ruling coverage is currently TBD and varies by jurisdiction: statutes and gazettes are sourced from official publications everywhere, while public case law availability differs significantly across the three (Saudi Arabia in particular publishes far less publicly than UAE or Egypt).

**Why not just use a global legal API or web RAG?**
General-purpose legal APIs are built US-first and treat MENA sources as an afterthought, machine-translated and stripped of citation structure. Web search fares worse: unstructured pages, blogs, and commentary with outdated provisions. Dike is built natively for MENA legal text and regional court and legislative structures, with verifiable citation anchors back to the official source.

**How does Dike prevent AI hallucinations?**
Every API query returns exact statutory and regulatory text in its authoritative source alongside official source IDs and verifiable citation anchors. AI agents cite real legal authority rather than generating ungrounded quotes or mistranslated approximations.

**Which jurisdictions and languages does Dike cover today?**
Dike is MENA-native by design: Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Egypt at launch, with GCC and broader regional jurisdictions on the roadmap. Sources are indexed with bilingual metadata (Arabic and English), covering civil codes, statutory gazettes, and common law free-zone jurisdictions (like DIFC and ADGM) with citation anchors that hold across both.

**How do developers integrate Dike into their AI stack?**
Dike provides a lightweight REST API compatible with RAG pipelines, vector search engines, custom agent tool calls, and LLM function calling workflows, built for legal-tech startups and enterprise agent builders who need MENA coverage that Western legal APIs don't offer. `POST /v1/reason` requires a Pay As You Go plan; search, cite, and graph traversal are available on Free.

**How frequently is legal data updated?**
Our data pipeline syncs directly with official MENA legislative and judicial repositories to ingest statutory amendments, repealed acts, and new court rulings as they're published.

Full FAQ page at https://dike.it.com/faq/. Pricing at https://dike.it.com/pricing/.