Is Warframe free to play?

Yes. Warframe is free to download and free to play. Digital Extremes' own site offers it with a "Play Free Now" button, the Steam store calls it a "free-to-play online action game", and the publisher's support FAQ tells Switch players to "download the game for free" from the Nintendo eShop.

Where can you play Warframe for free?

The official site lists PC (its own launcher, Steam and the Epic Games Store), PlayStation, Xbox, Nintendo Switch, the App Store, Google Play and the Samsung Galaxy Store. The download is free on all of them.

What do you pay for in Warframe?

Inside the game, the currency sold for real money is Platinum. Digital Extremes describes it as "the in-game currency of Warframe used to purchase various enhancements in the game".

On the PlayStation Store UK, Platinum runs from £3.69 for 75 to £109.99 for 3,450 (prices read on 11 November 2026). Bigger packs are cheaper per Platinum: the smallest works out at about 4.9p each, the largest at about 3.2p.

Can you get Platinum without paying?

Yes. The publisher's FAQ says that "any player can purchase Platinum", but also that "Platinum can also be traded to other players". So players who never buy Platinum can still earn it by trading items they've found, such as Prime parts, with players who do.

Those Prime parts come from Void Relics, which you earn by playing. Digital Extremes publishes the odds in its official drop tables: a rare part has a 2% chance from an Intact relic, rising to 10% from a Radiant one. The Warframe page has the full worked example, and our guide to how pity works explains why each relic opening is independent. For a game that sells a seasonal pass instead, see Destiny 2.

How we checked

The free-to-play wording comes from warframe.com, the Warframe Support FAQ and the Steam store page. Platinum prices are the PlayStation Store UK listings. Relic odds are from Digital Extremes' official drop tables. We re-read all of them on 11 November 2026.