Effie Awards operate a federated model: the global Effie organisation licenses regional competitions, each with its own entry fees, deadlines, and eligibility rules. For agencies active in MENA, Europe, or Asia, the decision of which regional Effie to enter - and which categories within it - directly affects your budget.
Regional Effies typically accept work that ran in their geography, so international campaigns can sometimes enter multiple regional programmes legitimately. Each entry requires a full written case study demonstrating business results, which adds production time to the true cost of entry.
The Awardy budget planner aggregates publicly available Effie pricing data so you can compare the cost of entering MENA Effie versus other regional competitions in one view before committing.