What it is
Warframe Market is Warframe's de-facto player-to-player marketplace. It's a website (with companion mobile apps) where players post buy and sell orders for Prime parts, mods, rivens, arcanes, relics and sets. Each listing shows the Platinum price, the seller's in-game status (online/offline/in-game) and a ready-to-copy whisper template to send inside the game.
It's free and ad-supported, maintained by a community team. Its public API is the backbone of nearly every economy tool: AlecaFrame and WFInfo, for example, pull prices straight from it.
What problem it solves
Warframe has no auction house and shows no prices. The only way to trade is to manually coordinate with another player via chat. Without a central reference, you have no idea what something is worth: you could undersell an expensive Prime part or overpay for a mod.
Warframe Market solves that by aggregating all public orders in one place. You search an item, see who's selling and for how much, sort by price, and send the whisper. To sell, you post your order and buyers contact you. It's the bridge between the game's decentralized economy and a reference point everyone checks.
Differentiation
Versus Semlar (specialized in riven grading and pricing), Warframe Market is the general marketplace: everything tradeable goes through it. Semlar tells you whether a riven is good and roughly what it's worth; Warframe Market is where you actually buy or sell it.
Rule of thumb: Semlar to evaluate a riven before trading it, Warframe Market for the transaction itself and for prices on everything else.
What people use it for
Selling duplicates for Platinum: the main way to get Platinum without paying is selling spare Prime parts, mods and rivens. Warframe Market is where you post those sales.
Buying missing parts: when you're missing one piece of a Prime set and don't want to farm the relic, you buy it directly from another player at market price.
Calibrating prices before trading: even if you close the trade elsewhere (Discord, in-game), you check Warframe Market for the fair price so you don't get taken.
Trading endgame mods and arcanes: Eidolon arcanes, rare mods and mod sets move constantly here.
Feeding overlays: even if you never open the site, its API reaches you indirectly through WFInfo (relic reward values) and AlecaFrame (one-click listings).
Who this tool isn't for
If you play exclusively Solo Self-Found or have no interest in trading, Warframe Market does nothing for you — there's no economy to consult. All content can be farmed without trading, just slower.
If you just finished the tutorial and haven't unlocked trading yet (requires a certain Mastery Rank and Dojo/relay access), the site lets you look at prices but not operate yet.
How it's used in practice
- Go to
warframe.marketand optionally switch the language from the selector. - Search the item by name. You see the orders sorted by price, with seller status.
- Filter by "online in-game" sellers so the trade is immediate.
- Copy the whisper template, paste it into Warframe's chat and message the seller.
- To sell, create an account, post your order with a price, and keep your status updated so buyers can find you.
Honest limitations
Requires manual coordination: it's not an automated auction house. You have to be online, accept the invite, go to the other player's Dojo or relay and confirm the trade face to face.
Suggested, not guaranteed prices: listings reflect what people ask, not necessarily what closes. On low-liquidity items the real price can differ.
Ads: the site is ad-supported.
Lowball spam: selling popular items means many whispers, some offering below the listed price.
How to get started
To look at prices you don't need an account: go, search, done. To sell, register with your Warframe account name and optionally install the companion to sync your in-game status. The most useful move is to bookmark the site and check it every time you trade, until you internalize the prices of the items you handle most.
