# getHighestSnapshotSlot

Returns the highest slot that the node has a snapshot for.

This will find the highest full snapshot slot, and the highest incremental snapshot slot based on the full snapshot slot, if there is one.

This method will use `30` [Compute Units](/v1/about/billing.md).

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## **Parameters**

None.

## Returns

`result` The result will be an object with the following fields:

* `full` The highest fullsnapshot slot encoded as 64-bit unsigned integer.
* `incremental` The greatest incremental snapshot slot derived from the full snapshot.

```bash
// Result
{
	"jsonrpc": "2.0",
	"result": {
		"full": 320125092,
		"incremental": 320143327
	},
	"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":"getHighestSnapshotSlot"}'
    
</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":"getHighestSnapshotSlot"}'
    
```

{% endtab %}
{% endtabs %}


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