Netflix’s Squid Game is estimated to be worth $900 million. The Independent.

How much did Netflix pay for Squid Game?

Netflix paid $21.4 million for the nine-episode series, which premiered four weeks ago, and the company estimates “Squid Game” will deliver more than 40 times that — an estimated $891 million — in what it calls “impact value,” Bloomberg reported Saturday evening, citing confidential internal data that someone provided

How much did Squid Game cost to make?

The documents also revealed that “Squid Game” cost $21.4 million to produce. At around $2.4 million an episode, that’s considerably cheaper than some of Netflix’s other big shows.

In Squid Game, characters compete for a cash prize by participating in challenges that augment classic Korean children’s games, with the “losers” being killed at the end of each round. After each challenge, these traditional children’s play spaces tend to be left soaked in blood and littered with piles of corpses.