Quick answer
To get Orokin Ducats in Warframe, sell Prime blueprints and Prime parts at an Orokin Ducat kiosk in any Relay (except Maroo's Bazaar). Common parts are worth 15 Ducats, uncommon 45, and rare 100, with 25 and 65 for a handful of cross-rarity items. The fastest loop is: run Void Fissure missions, crack Void Relics for Prime parts, then Ducat the parts nobody wants for Platinum. Ducats are spent almost entirely at Baro Ki'Teer, the Void Trader, who visits a Relay for 48 hours roughly every two weeks.
Key takeaways
- Ducats come from selling Prime parts, not from missions directly. Any Prime blueprint or component can be sold at a Relay Ducat kiosk.
- Values are fixed by rarity: 15 / 45 / 100 Ducats (plus 25 / 65 special cases). You cannot upgrade a part's Ducat value.
- Never Ducat a part that sells for real Platinum. The smart rule: if a 100-Ducat part lists for ~15p or more on the community market, sell it for plat instead.
- Ducats can only be spent on Baro Ki'Teer's rotating stock, so time your farming to his arrival — he stays only 48 hours.
- You cannot trade Ducats. They are an account-bound currency; there is no "buy Ducats" and no legitimate third-party seller.
Orokin Ducats are Warframe's oldest sink for the mountain of Prime parts you accumulate after a few hundred hours. Every duplicate Prime Chassis, spare Blueprint, and one-off component you crack out of a relic is worth a fixed pile of Ducats — and Ducats are the only currency Baro Ki'Teer, the game's roaming Void Trader, will take for his exclusive stock of Primed mods, weapons, cosmetics, and Mastery fodder.
This guide covers exactly where Ducats come from, the fixed value of every Prime-part rarity, the fastest farming loop as of Update 43.5: Amir's Shockwave (September 2026), and — most importantly — the one rule that stops you from throwing away Platinum every time you visit the kiosk.
What are Orokin Ducats in Warframe?
Orokin Ducats are a special, account-bound currency used exclusively to buy items from Baro Ki'Teer, the Void Trader. They are not Credits, not Platinum, and not Aya — and they do not convert to or from any of those. According to the WARFRAME Wiki, Ducats "can be acquired by selling Prime blueprints, Prime weapon parts, and crafted Prime Warframe components at the Void Trader's Kiosks found in the Concourse area in Relays."
A few hard rules that trip up new Tenno:
- Ducats cannot be traded between players. There is no "how to get Ducats fast by buying them" — the currency physically cannot move between accounts.
- Only Prime items give Ducats. Regular blueprints, mods (with rare Baro-specific exceptions), and resources cannot be sold at the kiosk.
- The kiosk is in Relays, not Maroo's Bazaar. Head to a Relay like Larunda (Mercury), Kronia (Saturn), or Strata (Earth) and look in the Concourse.
Where do you get Ducats? The core loop
The entire Ducat economy runs on one loop, and every efficient farm is just a faster version of it:
Run Void Fissures → crack Void Relics → collect Prime parts → sell the junk at a Ducat kiosk.
Here is each step in detail.
Step 1 — Get Void Relics
Void Relics (Lith, Meso, Neo, and Axi) drop from a huge range of content: mission rewards, bounties on the open landscapes, and Syndicate offerings. If you just want relics in bulk, defense and survival rotations on the star chart pour them out. You can also trade for relics with other players, since relics are freely tradeable whether vaulted or not.
Step 2 — Crack them in a Void Fissure
Equip up to four relics, launch a Void Fissure mission (the marked nodes on the star chart), and collect 10 Reactant from the corrupted enemies that spawn. When the mission segment ends, each squad member reveals one Prime reward from their relic — and in a full squad you get to pick from all four. Always run Fissures in a group for targeted farming; solo, you only ever see your own single reward.
Step 3 — Sell Prime parts for Ducats
Take everything you don't need to a Relay, interact with the Orokin Ducat kiosk, and sell. The game shows you the exact Ducat value before you confirm, so you can never sell by accident. Selling a Prime part destroys it permanently in exchange for Ducats, so this is a one-way door — which brings us to the money rule below.
How many Ducats is each Prime part worth?
Ducat value is fixed by the part's rarity in its relic, not by how rare the item feels. You cannot increase it. The standard values, confirmed across the WARFRAME Wiki and community drop-table trackers:
| Prime part rarity | Ducat value |
|---|---|
| Common (bronze) | 15 |
| Uncommon (silver) | 45 |
| Rare (gold) | 100 |
| Cross-rarity (demoted commons) | 25 |
| Cross-rarity (demoted uncommons) | 65 |
The 25 and 65 values exist because when a newer relic reprints an old Prime part at a different rarity, the game bumps its Ducat value to a middle tier. In practice, the overwhelming bulk of your "junk pile" will be 15-Ducat commons, with the occasional 45 and a scattering of 100s.
Because values are fixed and low per item, Ducat farming is a volume game. A single 100-Ducat rare is nice, but a stack of forty 15-Ducat commons (600 Ducats) is what actually funds a Baro haul.
The one rule that saves you Platinum
Here is the mistake that costs players real value: mass-Ducating every Prime part the moment they get it.
Some Prime parts are worth far more as Platinum on the player market than the fixed 15–100 Ducats the kiosk pays. Vaulted Prime sets, meta weapon parts, and hard-to-farm components can sell to other players for tens of Platinum each. Ducat them and that value is gone forever.
The community's rule of thumb, repeated across r/Warframe, is blunt and worth memorizing: if a 100-Ducat part is listed for around 15 Platinum or more on the community market, sell it for Platinum instead of Ducating it. One experienced trader summed the whole discipline up: "If the 100 ducat prime part in market lists for 15 plat or more, sell on market and don't ducat."
So the correct workflow is:
- Check first. Before a big kiosk dump, cross-reference your spare Prime parts against a Ducat-to-Platinum ratio tool (the community "Ducanator" is the standard) or just search the part on the market.
- Sell the valuable ones for Platinum, player-to-player, through the in-game Trading Post.
- Ducat only the genuine junk — the parts listing for a plat or two, or nothing at all.
This single habit is the difference between a hoard of Ducats and a hoard of Ducats plus a healthy Platinum balance.
What do you actually spend Ducats on? Baro Ki'Teer
Ducats have exactly one home: Baro Ki'Teer, the Void Trader. Per the WARFRAME Wiki, "he makes appearances every two weeks, and is only available for trading for up to 48 hours after surfacing before he disappears once again." He arrives on a Friday, typically around 2 PM GMT, and sets up on the Concourse of a rotating Relay.
Baro's stock rotates every visit and can include:
- Primed mods — the biggest draw; upgraded versions of core mods that are otherwise unavailable.
- Exclusive weapons and cosmetics — Prisma variants, Ki'Teer armor and Signas, syandanas, and Mastery-fodder guns.
- Relics, Ayatan sculptures, and mods that are otherwise annoying to track down.
Two things to know before you farm for him:
- His prices are Ducats plus Credits. A Primed mod might cost, for example, several hundred Ducats and a large lump of Credits, so keep a Credit reserve too.
- You cannot see his stock until he arrives unless you check a community tracker or the in-game Relay kiosk timer, which counts down to his next appearance. The kiosk timer is the authoritative source — every Relay kiosk shows the countdown.
Timing tip: because Baro visits only every two weeks, treat each window as a deadline. Farm and stockpile Ducats in the off-week so that when a Primed mod you want appears, you already have the currency ready. A wasted Baro visit means a two-week wait.
Fastest way to farm Ducats in 2026
There is no single "X Ducats per hour" node, because your Ducat income is just a function of how fast you crack relics and how much junk you accumulate. The genuinely efficient methods:
- Endless Void Fissures (survival, defense, interception). Staying in an endless Fissure lets you crack relic after relic in one run, snowballing Prime parts. This is the highest-throughput relic-cracking method.
- Bulk radiant-relic runs in a full squad. Refining relics to Radiant with Void Traces raises the chance of rare (gold, 100-Ducat) drops, and a coordinated squad running the same relic dramatically improves your odds of the part you want plus sellable extras.
- Buy cheap "junk" Prime parts for Platinum, then Ducat them. A long-standing community trick: some players sell bundles of low-value Prime parts for a few Platinum, which you then convert to Ducats at a favorable rate. It flips a small amount of Platinum into a large Ducat stockpile fast.
- Clear your Foundry backlog. Every duplicate Prime blueprint and part sitting in your inventory is unspent Ducats. A single inventory audit before a Baro visit often nets thousands.
For current drop locations and rates, always check DE's official published drop tables at warframe.com/droptables rather than trusting a static list — Warframe hotfixes constantly and relic contents shift with each Prime Access.
A quick note on "buying" Ducats
There is no legitimate way to buy Orokin Ducats. Ducats are account-bound and untradeable, and Digital Extremes' own support pages warn that third-party sellers offering discounted currency or services are "not legitimate." Warframe's economy is designed so that Ducats are earned, not purchased — which is exactly why the farming loop above matters. Every Baro haul you can afford is the direct payoff of relic-cracking you were probably doing anyway.
FAQ
How do you get Ducats fast in Warframe? Run endless Void Fissure missions in a full squad to crack relics quickly, then sell every Prime part you don't need at a Relay Ducat kiosk. Refining relics to Radiant raises your rare-drop chance, and clearing your Foundry backlog of duplicate Prime parts before a Baro visit is the single fastest one-time boost.
Where is the Ducat kiosk in Warframe? It's the Orokin Ducat kiosk in the Concourse area of any Tenno Relay — for example Larunda Relay (Mercury), Kronia Relay (Saturn), or Strata Relay (Earth). It is not in Maroo's Bazaar. Interact with it to sell Prime blueprints and parts for Ducats.
How many Ducats is a Prime part worth? Value is fixed by rarity: 15 Ducats for a common (bronze) part, 45 for uncommon (silver), and 100 for rare (gold). A few cross-rarity items are worth 25 or 65. The game shows the exact value before you confirm the sale.
Can you buy or trade Ducats in Warframe? No. Ducats are account-bound and cannot be traded between players, and there is no in-game or legitimate third-party way to buy them. You can only earn them by selling Prime parts at a Ducat kiosk.
Should I sell all my Prime parts for Ducats? No. Check the community market first — many Prime parts are worth more as Platinum than the fixed Ducat value. A common rule is: if a 100-Ducat part lists for around 15 Platinum or more, sell it to another player for plat instead, and only Ducat the genuine junk.
When does Baro Ki'Teer come back? Roughly every two weeks, usually on a Friday around 2 PM GMT, and he stays for 48 hours. The countdown timer on any Relay's kiosk shows exactly when he next arrives and, once he's here, how long until he leaves.
Facts in this guide were verified against warframe.com, the WARFRAME Wiki, and community drop-table references for Update 43.5: Amir's Shockwave (September 2026). Ducat values and Baro's schedule are stable, but his stock rotates every visit — check the in-game kiosk timer for his next arrival.
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