getBalance RPC Method

Returns the lamport balance of the account of provided Pubkey

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

params

stringrequired

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

objectoptional

Configuration object.

result

Response
{
"jsonrpc": "2.0",
"result": {
"context": { "slot": 1 },
"value": 0
},
"id": 1
}
u64

RpcResponse JSON object with value field set to the balance.

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