Costs of Taking DELE v. SIELE

I've written about the DELE before, and there are some existing comparisons on DELE v. SIELE, but I found a major study from Instituto Cervantes that polled test takers of both exams from 2019 - 2022 (SIELE) and 2019 - 2023 (DELE). Interestingly the study also published a total candidate pool, 458,697 over 5 years for the DELE and 43,683 over 4 years for the SIELE. In my research I haven't seen Instituto Cervantes get to that granular level of detail on # of test takers per annum.

Anywho the chart that caught my attention was this one: average costs incurred (€) per test taker. The SIELE is way more expensive: 432€ more expensive to be specific, coming in at almost €1000 between classes, registering for the exam itself, and books/other materials.

Thought this might be interesting to those of you considering either or!