Banshee makes things loud and painful. Sonar lights up weak spots and multiplies damage several times over, Silence deafens, Sound Quake flattens the room. Fragile, but Sonar still makes her one of the meanest damage amplifiers in the game.
Can you buy Banshee for platinum
Straight to it: yes, Banshee costs 225 platinum in the Market and arrives fully built with a free slot.
- Price. 225 platinum for a built Banshee 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 Banshee Prime set on warframe.market goes for around 73 platinum as of 29 August 2026, which is 3.1 times cheaper than the 225 the shop wants for the regular version. The difference is what you get: 225 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 Banshee Prime
Yes, Banshee Prime exists, but it is vaulted: its relics left the drop tables on 18.12.2018. 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 7 000 Salvage instead of 1 000. 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 A12 Relic, Axi C3 Relic, Axi K3 Relic, Meso E5 Relic, Meso T2 Relic, Neo H1 Relic, Neo N7 Relic, Neo T1 Relic, Neo V7 Relic | 45 | Banshee Prime Neuroptics x1, Banshee Prime Chassis x1, Banshee Prime Systems x1, Orokin Cell x5 |
| Chassis | Meso B2 Relic, Neo B1 Relic, Neo B2 Relic, Neo B6 Relic | 100 | Morphics x10, Cryotic x1 500, Rubedo x2 000, Salvage x7 000 |
| Neuroptics | Axi H5 Relic, Lith B5 Relic, Lith M7 Relic, Lith V5 Relic, Meso S4 Relic, Neo K2 Relic, Neo S7 Relic | 15 | Neural Sensors x2, Alloy Plate x6 000, Circuits x1 500, Nitain Extract x2 |
| Systems | Axi B1 Relic, Axi B2 Relic, Lith K5 Relic, Neo B4 Relic, Neo B5 Relic | 65 | Argon Crystal x2, Control Module x10, Oxium x300, Ferrite x4 500 |
Where the blueprints come from
All of Banshee's blueprints are researched in the Tenno Lab in a clan dojo. There is no other source: no boss, no quest, no bounty. With no clan of your own, the easy move is joining a settled one where the Tenno Lab has been finished for years.
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 usual order: three components in parallel, then the Warframe on top of them. 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 x1, Ferrite x900, Rubedo x50 |
| Neuroptics | 15 000 | 12 h | Circuits x150, Neural Sensors x1, Polymer Bundle x200, Salvage x500 |
| Systems | 15 000 | 12 h | Control Module x1, Morphics x1, Salvage x500, Plastids x400 |
| Banshee | 25 000 | 72 h | Banshee Neuroptics x1, Banshee Chassis x1, Banshee Systems x1, Orokin Cell x1 |
Where to farm the resources
Banshee has no real resource bottleneck: everything on the list piles up while you play. The only item worth a deliberate trip is Morphics, and you need 2. Mercury and Earth. Apollodorus on Mercury is a short survival that keeps handing them out.
| 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 |
| Circuits | Venus, Ceres, and the Kuva Fortress |
| 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 Banshee worth building
Banshee is a damage amplifier: Sonar paints weak spots for the whole squad and Resonance keeps them spreading.
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 73 platinum.
Build her if you play with friends and enjoy sniping. On her own she is made of paper.
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 Banshee 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.
