getBalance RPC Method

Returns the lamport balance of the account of provided Pubkey

params

stringrequired

Pubkey of account to query, as base-58 encoded string.

objectoptional

Configuration object.

result

u64

RpcResponse JSON object with value field set to the balance.

$ curl https://api.devnet.solana.com -s -X \
>   POST -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d ' 
>   {
>     "jsonrpc": "2.0",
>     "id": 1,
>     "method": "getBalance",
>     "params": [
>       "83astBRguLMdt2h5U1Tpdq5tjFoJ6noeGwaY3mDLVcri",
>       {
>         "commitment": "finalized"
>       }
>     ]
>   }
> '

Response

{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "result": {
    "context": { "slot": 1 },
    "value": 0
  },
  "id": 1
}

$ curl https://api.devnet.solana.com -s -X \
>   POST -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d ' 
>   {
>     "jsonrpc": "2.0",
>     "id": 1,
>     "method": "getBalance",
>     "params": [
>       "83astBRguLMdt2h5U1Tpdq5tjFoJ6noeGwaY3mDLVcri",
>       {
>         "commitment": "finalized"
>       }
>     ]
>   }
> '