getMinimumBalanceForRentExemption

Returns minimum balance required to make account rent exempt.

This method will use 30 Compute Units.

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Parameters

• usize integer. The account data length.

• 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.

Returns

result The minimum lamports required in an account to remain rent free, which is encoded as u64, 64-bit unsigned integer.

// Result
{
	"jsonrpc": "2.0",
	"result": 1238880,
	"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":"getMinimumBalanceForRentExemption", "params":[50]}'
    

devnet