getBalance

Read a Solana account's lamport balance over rpc edge JSON-RPC.

getBalance returns the lamport balance of an account. It is the cheapest way to read a wallet's SOL balance without pulling the full account.

Request

curl -s https://rpc.rpcedge.com \
  -H 'content-type: application/json' \
  -H 'x-api-key: YOUR_UUID_KEY' \
  -d '{
    "jsonrpc": "2.0",
    "id": 1,
    "method": "getBalance",
    "params": ["vines1vzrYbzLMRdu58ou5XTby4qAqVRLmqo36NKPTg", { "commitment": "processed" }]
  }'

Parameters

Position	Name	Type	Notes
`0`	`pubkey`	`string`	Base-58 account address.
`1`	`config`	`object`	Optional. `commitment` (`processed` \| `confirmed` \| `finalized`) and `minContextSlot`.

Response

{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 1,
  "result": { "context": { "slot": 429641447 }, "value": 2039280 }
}

value is the balance in lamports (1 SOL = 1,000,000,000 lamports). Divide by 1e9 for SOL. A non-existent account returns 0, not an error - use getAccountInfo if you need to distinguish "empty" from "does not exist".