The FINA/Arena World Cup scoring system awards swimmers points based on their single highest-scoring event (by FINA points) of each meet. The swimmer with the highest-scoring event gets 25 points, next gets 20, and so-on. The table below shows, for the Dubai meet, the male and female standings, along with the event, time, and FINA Point score that earned them their series points.
Remember that the following dollar awards will be given at the end of the 7-meet series to the overall top-3 men and top-3 women according to the scoring below
1st – $100,000
2nd – $50,000
3rd – $30,000
Men *ties are broken by the highest-scoring second event
| Place | Series Points | Swimmer/country | Best Scoring Event | Time | FINA Score |
| 1 | 25 | Chad le Clos/RSA | 200 Fly | 1:52.55 | 911 |
| 2 | 20 | Marco Koch/GER | 200 Breast | 2:04.97 | 900 |
| 3 | 16 | Dinko Jukic/AUT | 200 Fly | 1:53.17 | 896 |
| 5 | 13 | Samuel Pizzetti/ITA | 1500 free | 14:56.85 | 851* |
| 4 | 10 | Evgeny Korotyshkin/RUS | 100 Fly | 51.14 | 851* |
| 6 | 7 | Yuma Kosaka/JAP | 100 IM | 53.66 | 846 |
| 9 | 5 | Sergii Frolov/RUS | 1500 Free | 15:04.49 | 830 |
| 7 | 3 | Masafumi Yamaguchi/JAP | 100 IM | 54.12 | 825 |
| 8 | 2 | Jason Dunford/KEN | 100 Fly | 51.70 | 824 |
| 10 | 1 | Gustav Aaberg Lejdstroem/SWE | 400 Free | 3:47.28 | 820 |
Women
| Place | Series Points | Swimmer/country | Best Scoring Event | Time | FINA Score |
| 1 | 25 | Daryna Zevina/UKR | 200 Back | 2:02.94 | 934 |
| 2 | 20 | Xiaoyu Liu/CHN | 100 Breast | 1:04.79 | 906 |
| 3 | 16 | Izumi Kato/JPN | 200 IM | 2:09.04 | 900 |
| 4 | 13 | Ranomi Kromowidjojo/NED | 100 Free | 52.88 | 897 |
| 5 | 10 | Marleen Veldhuis | 50 Free | 24.14 | 893 |
| 6 | 7 | Shija Wang/CHN | 200 Free | 1:56.76 | 863 |
| 7 | 5 | Rong Fan/CHN | 100 Breast | 1:05.92 | 860 |
| 8 | 3 | Petra Granlund/SWE | 200 Free | 1:57.00 | 857 |
| 9 | 2 | Hang Yu Sze/HKG | 200 Free | 1:57.08 | 856 |
| 10 | 1 | Barbora Zavadova/RUS | 200 IM | 2:11.40 | 852 |
Full results for all WC meets are available from OmegaTiming.com.