# getBalance

Returns the balance of the account of provided Pubkey.

This method will use `30` [Compute Units](https://docs.validationcloud.io/v1/about/billing).

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## **Parameters**

* `address` string *<mark style="color:red;">Required</mark>.* The Pubkey of the account to query encoded as base-58 string.
* `object` *optional.* Configuration object containing the following fields:
  * `commitment` string. The level of commitment required for the query. The options include:
    * `finalized` string.&#x20;
      * The node will query the most recent block confirmed by the supermajority of the cluster as having reached maximum lockout, meaning the cluster has recognized this block as finalized.
    * `confirmed` string.
      * The node will query the most recent block that has been voted on by the supermajority of the cluster.
    * `processed` string.
      * The node will query its most recent block. Note that the block may not be complete.
  * `encoding` string.&#x20;
    * The encoding format for account data. It can be one of `base58` (slow), `base64`, `base64+zstd` or `jsonParsed`.
  * `dataSlice` string.
    * The returned account data using the provided `offset: <usize>` and `length: <usize>` fields; only available for base58, base64, or base64+zstd encodings.
  * `minContextSlot` integer. The minimum slot at which the request can be evaluated.

## Returns

* `result` object. Null if the account doesn't exist otherwise RpcResponse JSON object with the following fields:
  * `context`
    * An object that contains metadata about the current state of the Solana network at the time the request was processed.
      * `apiVersion` - The version number.
      * `slot` - The current slot in the Solana cluster during which the transactions are processed and new blocks are added to the blockchain.
  * `value` -The balance of the account of provided Pubkey in lamports (1 billion lamports = 1 SOL).

```bash
// Result
{
	"jsonrpc": "2.0",
	"result": {
		"context": {
			"apiVersion": "2.1.11",
			"slot": 319930233
		},
		"value": 19987993198
	},
	"id": 1
}
```

{% tabs %}
{% tab title="mainnet" %}

<pre class="language-bash"><code class="lang-bash"><strong>curl https://mainnet.solana.validationcloud.io/v1/&#x3C;YOUR_API_KEY_HERE> \
</strong>    -X POST \
    -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
    -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0", "id":1, "method":"getBalance", "params":["Ec37CQZjwRgGnuMmUi3BnEBXS5Xa3siakAPxPkHtahSf"]}'
    
</code></pre>

{% endtab %}

{% tab title="devnet" %}

```bash
curl https://devnet.solana.validationcloud.io/v1/<YOUR_API_KEY_HERE> \
    -X POST \
    -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
    -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0", "id":1, "method":"getBalance", "params":["EbNssp5Zpe4XUZvvtgEa7gHhWkzg8R4XuBx2xHLKfXje"]}'
    
```

{% endtab %}
{% endtabs %}