Nezha skates along a fire trail and barely dies: Warding Halo takes the hits and burns whoever came close. Fast, cheap to build and still one of the best frames for a new player.
Can you buy Nezha for platinum
In short, yes, Nezha costs 275 platinum in the Market and arrives fully built with a free slot.
- Price. 275 platinum for a built Nezha with a slot for it.
- Mastery. It ticks the same whether the frame was bought or built, so buying saves time, not rank.
There is a second route people forget about. A full Nezha Prime set on warframe.market goes for around 70 platinum as of 29 August 2026, which is 3.9 times cheaper than the 275 the shop wants for the regular version. The difference is what you get: 275 buys a finished frame with a slot, while a market set is blueprints that you still have to build and feed with resources. Platinum but no time, use the shop. Time but little platinum, buy the Prime set, which is the stronger frame anyway.
Is there a Nezha Prime
Yes, Nezha Prime exists, but it is vaulted: its relics left the drop tables on 05.10.2022. That leaves three ways in: trade the parts from other players, catch it in Prime Resurgence when Varzia offers it for Regal Aya, or wait for an unvaulting.
The Prime recipe is its own thing and noticeably heavier: it eats 1 400 Rubedo instead of 600. Components cost 15,000 credits and 12 hours each, the final build costs 25,000 and sits for 72 h. The regular version takes exactly as long for its final build. Do not toss the spare parts, Baro Ki'Teer takes them for ducats, prices are in the table.
| Blueprint | Relics it drops from | Ducats | Resources per build |
|---|---|---|---|
| Main blueprint | Axi G6 Relic, Axi M2 Relic, Axi S9 Relic, Lith H4 Relic, Lith O3 Relic, Meso C6 Relic, Meso D6 Relic, Meso H2 Relic | 45 | Nezha Prime Neuroptics x1, Nezha Prime Chassis x1, Nezha Prime Systems x1, Orokin Cell x5 |
| Chassis | Axi N7 Relic, Lith N11 Relic, Meso N15 Relic, Neo N13 Relic, Neo N17 Relic | 100 | Nitain Extract x2, Nano Spores x4 750, Rubedo x1 400, Morphics x8 |
| Neuroptics | Axi N8 Relic, Lith N10 Relic, Lith N6 Relic, Lith N8 Relic, Neo N15 Relic, Neo N20 Relic, Neo T8 Relic | 100 | Alloy Plate x5 500, Neural Sensors x6, Oxium x225, Argon Crystal x2 |
| Systems | Axi O5 Relic, Axi S12 Relic, Lith G7 Relic, Lith H3 Relic, Lith N12 Relic, Meso P7 Relic, Neo D2 Relic, Neo D3 Relic, Neo N16 Relic | 15 | Control Module x10, Tellurium x3, Ferrite x4 300, Circuits x1 450 |
Where the blueprints come from
All of Nezha's blueprints are researched in the Tenno Lab in a clan dojo. The main blueprint used to sit in the Market for 100,000 credits with components from sorties, but that ended with Update 19.
This is where most people get stuck: the blueprints sit in a clan dojo, and a new player has no clan. It takes one evening to get past.
- Find a clan. Open the Recruiting chat in game and say you are looking for a clan with the Tenno Lab researched. There are almost always open spots and joining takes a minute.
- If the research is not done, any member with research rights can start it. Pick the frame in the Tenno Lab, the clan chips in resources, then a timer runs.
- You cannot buy the blueprints from another player. Clan lab blueprints are not tradeable. Only Prime parts are.
- If you would rather not hunt for a clan, two routes remain: 275 platinum for the finished frame in the shop, or a Prime set from the market.
What it is built from
The Foundry wants four runs: three components first, the final assembly after. Components run in the Foundry at the same time, so from the first click to a finished frame it is roughly 84 h: twelve for the parts and 72 for the Warframe itself.
| Blueprint | Credits | Time | Resources per build |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chassis | 15 000 | 12 h | Morphics x2, Ferrite x3 200, Rubedo x600, Argon Crystal x1 |
| Neuroptics | 15 000 | 12 h | Argon Crystal x1, Neural Sensors x1, Polymer Bundle x2 100, Salvage x4 500 |
| Systems | 15 000 | 12 h | Control Module x1, Morphics x1, Ferrite x5 000, Plastids x4 200 |
| Nezha | 25 000 | 72 h | Nezha Neuroptics x1, Nezha Chassis x1, Nezha Systems x1, Orokin Cell x1 |
Where to farm the resources
There is exactly one bottleneck here, and it is Plastids: the recipe wants 4200 and it will not pile up on its own. Saturn and Ceres. Piscinas on Saturn is the usual survival for them. Second heaviest is Argon Crystal at 2. Void only, and it decays 24 hours after you pick it up. Farm it last, right before you press build. Everything else accumulates while you play and needs no special trip.
| Resource | Where it drops |
|---|---|
| Orokin Cell | Ceres, Saturn, and Deimos |
| Morphics | Mercury, Mars, Phobos, Europa, and Pluto |
| Ferrite | Mercury, Earth, Lua, Neptune, and the Void |
| Rubedo | Earth, Lua, Phobos, Europa, Pluto, Sedna, and the Void |
| Argon Crystal | Missions in the Void |
| Neural Sensors | Jupiter |
| Polymer Bundle | Mercury, Venus, and Uranus |
| Salvage | Mars, Jupiter, and Sedna |
| Control Module | Europa, Neptune, and the Void |
| Plastids | Phobos, Saturn, Uranus, Pluto, and Eris |
Is Nezha worth building
Nezha is fast and hard to kill: Warding Halo absorbs a fixed amount of damage and Divine Spears hangs a crowd on stakes.
The numbers look like this: no mastery rank requirement, roughly 84 hours from the first foundry press to a finished frame, and 70 000 credits across all the builds together. A finished Prime set on the market runs about 70 platinum.
Often described as Rhino for people who like to move. Cheap to build and useful from the first 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 Nezha page on the Warframe wiki. Data as of 28.08.2026. Prime set prices: the open warframe.market API, snapshot taken on 29 August 2026, using the median of live sell orders.
