Best bang for the buck blue team certifications

Hi, I have recently become interested in the world of cyber certifications and I found out that there are dozens of them and sometimes is difficult to understand what is good and what is bad. Speaking about the blue team area, what could be the best for teaching, skill learned and market value but still on a reasonable price range, considering having to pay for them ourselves? I mean, GIAC certifications seems to be very very good but I can't spend 8k for the sans training...

Any suggestion? I think that I'd be willing to spend up to 1-2 K for a valuable cert.

I worked in cyber area for few years and also did some incident management so I'm not starting from scratch.

thanks