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title: getBalance
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h1: getBalance RPC Method
---

Returns the lamport balance of the account of provided Pubkey

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### Parameters

<Parameter type={"string"} required={true}>
  Pubkey of account to query, as base-58 encoded string
</Parameter>

<Parameter type={"object"} optional={true}>

Configuration object containing the following fields:

<Field
  name="commitment"
  type="string"
  optional={true}
  href="/docs/rpc/index.mdx#configuring-state-commitment"
/>

<Field name="minContextSlot" type="number" optional={true}>
  The minimum slot that the request can be evaluated at
</Field>

</Parameter>

### Result

`RpcResponse<u64>` - RpcResponse JSON object with `value` field set to the
balance

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### Code sample

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

### Response

```json
{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "result": { "context": { "slot": 1 }, "value": 0 },
  "id": 1
}
```

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