getBalance RPC Method

Returns the lamport balance of the account of provided Pubkey

Parameters

string required

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

object optional

Configuration object containing the following fields:

commitment string optional

minContextSlot number optional

The minimum slot that the request can be evaluated at

Result

RpcResponse<u64> - RpcResponse JSON object with value field set to the balance

Code sample

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

Response

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