Koumei plays dice with the game itself: Omikuji rolls random buffs, Kumihimo throws out threads, Omamori gives a chance to shrug damage off entirely. A frame for people who like a bit of unpredictability.
Can you buy Koumei for platinum
Short answer: yes, Koumei costs 370 platinum in the Market and arrives fully built with a free slot.
- Price. 370 platinum for a built Koumei with a slot for it.
- Mastery. It ticks the same whether the frame was bought or built, so buying saves time, not rank.
Is there a Koumei Prime
No, there is no Prime version of Koumei yet. Primes usually arrive about two years after the original and strictly in order, so the turn will come, but nobody can promise a date.
Where the blueprints come from
Main and component blueprints drop from Shrine Defense on Saya's Visions, Earth. Access opens after Saya's Vigil and Once Awake. The route without the roulette: Koumei's Shrine in Cetus sells the same blueprints for Fate Pearls, dropped by the Infested Oni at the end of Shrine Defense, 14 to 18 a run and 20 to 24 on The Steel Path. A component costs 55, the main blueprint 165, the whole set 330.
What it is built from
The build runs in four passes: three components at twelve hours each, then the frame itself. Components run in the Foundry at the same time, so from the first click to a finished frame it is roughly 36 h: twelve for the parts and 24 for the Warframe itself.
| Blueprint | Credits | Time | Resources per build |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chassis | 15 000 | 12 h | Fate Pearl x24, Polymer Bundle x300, Grokdrul x30, Esher Devar x10 |
| Neuroptics | 15 000 | 12 h | Fate Pearl x24, Rubedo x100, Neurodes x1, Iradite x50 |
| Systems | 15 000 | 12 h | Fate Pearl x24, Circuits x150, Morphics x1, Tear Azurite x10 |
| Koumei | 25 000 | 24 h | Koumei Neuroptics x1, Koumei Chassis x1, Koumei Systems x1, Fate Pearl x30 |
Where to farm the resources
There is exactly one bottleneck here, and it is Iradite: the recipe wants 50 and it will not pile up on its own. Plains of Eidolon, mined from blue ore veins in the cliffs. Second heaviest is Grokdrul at 30. Plains of Eidolon, from Grineer containers and canisters around the camps. Everything else accumulates while you play and needs no special trip.
| Resource | Where it drops |
|---|---|
| Fate Pearl | Saya's Visions on Earth |
| Polymer Bundle | Mercury, Venus, and Uranus |
| Grokdrul | Plains of Eidolon on Earth |
| Esher Devar | built from the Devar gem, blueprint from Old Man Suumbaat for 2,500 Ostron standing |
| Rubedo | Earth, Lua, Phobos, Europa, Pluto, Sedna, and the Void |
| Neurodes | Earth, Lua, Eris, and Deimos |
| Iradite | Plains of Eidolon on Earth |
| Circuits | Venus, Ceres, and the Kuva Fortress |
| Morphics | Mercury, Mars, Phobos, Europa, and Pluto |
| Tear Azurite | built from the Azurite gem, blueprint from Old Man Suumbaat for 500 standing |
Is Koumei worth building
Koumei gambles: her abilities roll dice, and a good roll turns a normal mission into a shower of extra drops.
The numbers look like this: no mastery rank requirement, roughly 36 hours from the first foundry press to a finished frame, and 70 000 credits across all the builds together.
Fun and genuinely useful for farming. If random outcomes annoy you, she will annoy you every single mission.
Every other frame is broken down the same way, the full list lives in the guide to all Warframes.
Sources
Recipes and build times: the official Digital Extremes export, ExportRecipes_en. Resource locations: item descriptions from ExportResources_en. Blueprint drops and relic contents: the official Warframe drop tables. Acquisition and Prime vault status were checked against the Koumei page on the Warframe wiki. Data as of 28.08.2026.
