Warframe Caliban: How to Get Him, Caliban Prime and Build

Caliban's main blueprint sits in the Market for 50,000 Credits. His 3 part blueprints drop in Narmer bounties of level 50 to 70, on the Plains of Eidolon and in the Orb Vallis. These bounties open after The New War.

1. Finish The New War quest.
2. Buy the Caliban blueprint in the Market for 50,000 Credits.
3. Take the level 50 to 70 Narmer bounty in Cetus or Fortuna.
4. Read which part the bounty offers. Each bounty refresh, every 2.5 hours, puts 1 random Caliban part in the reward pool.
5. Clear stages until the part drops. Then build the 3 parts and the Warframe.

Rotation A of the bounty holds the Systems, rotation B the Chassis and rotation C the Neuroptics.

Blueprint	Cost	Build time
Neuroptics	15,000 Credits, 3 Anomaly Shards, 12 Narmer Isoplast, 10 Neural Sensors, 20 Tralok Eyes	12 hours
Chassis	15,000 Credits, 3 Anomaly Shards, 16 Narmer Isoplast, 20 Mortus Horn, 100 Hespazym Alloy	12 hours
Systems	15,000 Credits, 3 Anomaly Shards, 12 Narmer Isoplast, 30 Breath of the Eidolon, 30 Hexenon	12 hours
Caliban	25,000 Credits, the 3 parts and 12 Orokin Cells	3 days

The Market also sells the finished Caliban for 325 Platinum.

Ability	What it does
Passive	Allies in his Affinity range build resistance to the damage type that hits them.
Razor Gyre, 1st	He spins forward and applies Tau Status. Each enemy hit returns Energy, Health and Shields.
Sentient Wrath, 2nd	A ground slam sends out a wave. Survivors float in the air and take extra damage.
Lethal Progeny, 3rd	He summons Sentient allies. Conculysts fight in melee, Ortholysts shoot and Summulysts shield the squad.
Fusion Strike, 4th	3 energy streams meet in 1 point and explode. The streams strip Armor and Shields.

Razor Gyre turns extra Health into Shields at full Health. Enemies lifted by Sentient Wrath take more damage from Razor Gyre.

The most voted Caliban Prime build for Update 43 runs 5 Forma. It stacks Ability Strength for Razor Mortar and the Lethal Progeny summons. The Warframe Forma guide covers the Forma.

Mod	What it adds	Pick
Razor Mortar	His Razor Gyre augment	Core
Umbral Intensify	Ability Strength	Core
Transient Fortitude	More Ability Strength, lower Ability Duration	Core
Blind Rage	More Ability Strength, lower Ability Efficiency	Core
Archon Stretch	Ability Range	Core
Primed Flow	Maximum Energy	Core
Primed Continuity	Ability Duration	Core
Rolling Guard	Invulnerability after a dodge roll	Flex
Primed Redirection	Maximum Shields	Flex

The aura is Summoner's Wrath. The arcanes are Molt Augmented and Arcane Camisado.

Caliban Prime came out on 26 August 2025 with Update 39.1. Venato Prime and Vadarya Prime joined him in Prime Access.

He is unvaulted. 9 Void Relics drop his parts in missions today.

The Neuroptics and Systems sit in the rare slot. A Radiant relic raises those odds to 10%. The Warframe relics guide shows how to refine them.

Players trade his parts and full sets for Platinum. Ways to earn it are in Warframe Platinum.

Caliban arrived with The New War, Update 31.0, on 15 December 2021.

Warframe now runs Update 44.1, The Icebind, out since 7 October 2026. The Update 44 notes list fixes for his skins and a script error with his Summulysts. His ability numbers stayed the same.

Caliban sits in the B tier for DPS and Nuke on the Warframe tier list. Caliban and Caliban Prime each add 6,000 points to your Warframe Mastery Rank at rank 30.