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Is there a way to know the minimum balance required for an account?

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xavier
xavierXavier Praveen

Is there a function in the algosdk or an API to the algodclient or indexer or any other way to get the minimum balance required for an account address?

I require this information to add validations before creating a transaction.

Ben
Ben

Hi Xavier,

The min balance is now available via the API when getting balance information for an account.

Ben

xavier
xavierXavier Praveen

It’s mentioned in the documentation but when I hit the endpoint, the field is not returned in the response

fabrice
fabriceFabrice Benhamouda

Which node / API service are you using?

This works using the algonode.io node for example:

$ curl -s https://testnet-api.algonode.cloud/v2/accounts/6GIE5OUIJIMV5JTBEXLGLYE6TJTJBYKYF6MCHOOODM7VWAVSKHL7PK3FBE | jq
{
  "address": "6GIE5OUIJIMV5JTBEXLGLYE6TJTJBYKYF6MCHOOODM7VWAVSKHL7PK3FBE",
  "amount": 300200,
  "amount-without-pending-rewards": 300200,
  "apps-local-state": [],
  "apps-total-schema": {
    "num-byte-slice": 0,
    "num-uint": 0
  },
  "assets": [],
  "created-apps": [],
  "created-assets": [],
  "min-balance": 100000,
  "pending-rewards": 0,
  "reward-base": 27521,
  "rewards": 0,
  "round": 20506211,
  "status": "Offline"
}

(jq is just here to pretty print the response)