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description
Returns the balance of the account of a given address.

eth_getBalance

Parameters

  1. DATA, 20 Bytes - address to check for balance.
  2. QUANTITY|TAG - integer block number, or the string "latest", "earliest" or "pending", see the default block parameter.
params: [
   '0xc94770007dda54cF92009BFF0dE90c06F603a09f',
   'latest'
]

Returns

QUANTITY - integer of the current balance for the given address in wei.

Example

Request

{% tabs %} {% tab title="Curl" %}

curl https://eth-mainnet.alchemyapi.io/v2/your-api-key \
-X POST \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","method":"eth_getBalance","params":["0xc94770007dda54cF92009BFF0dE90c06F603a09f", "latest"],"id":0}'

{% endtab %}

{% tab title="Postman" %}

URL: https://eth-mainnet.alchemyapi.io/v2/your-api-key
RequestType: POST
Body: 
{
    "jsonrpc":"2.0",
    "method":"eth_getBalance",
    "params":["0xc94770007dda54cF92009BFF0dE90c06F603a09f", "latest"],
    "id":0
}

{% endtab %} {% endtabs %}

Result

{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 0,
  "result": "0x7c2562030800"
}