getBalance

Returns the balance of the account of provided Pubkey.

This method will use 30 Compute Units.

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Parameters

• address string Required. 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.

      • 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.

    • 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).

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

mainnet

curl https://mainnet.solana.validationcloud.io/v1/<YOUR_API_KEY_HERE> \
    -X POST \
    -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
    -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0", "id":1, "method":"getBalance", "params":["Ec37CQZjwRgGnuMmUi3BnEBXS5Xa3siakAPxPkHtahSf"]}'
    

devnet