# Account balance

To retrieve the balance of a specific account, you can make a GET request to either of the following endpoints:

**Get Account & balances**

To get an account balance, one can either call the get account by ID and extract `balance` or `available_balance`

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```bash
curl --request GET \
  --url https://api.vault.ledger.com/accounts/{{account_id}} \
  --header 'authorization: Bearer {{access_token}}' \
  --header 'content-type: application/json' \
  --header 'x-ledger-workspace: minivault'
```

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```json
{
  "address": null,
  "available_balance": "9981",
  "balance": "10292",
  "coin_fields": null,
  "contract_address": null,
  "created_by": 5,
  "created_on": "2024-01-24T07:36:17.591696+00:00",
  "currency": "bitcoin_testnet",
  "derivation_path": "84'/1'/1'",
  "governance_rules": [
    {
      "id": 2,
      "index": 0,
      "name": "Rule 1",
      "rules": [
        {
          "data": [
            {
              "group": 1,
              "quorum": 1
            },
            {
              "group": 2,
              "quorum": 1
            },
            {
              "group": 3,
              "quorum": 1
            }
          ],
          "id": 2,
          "type": "MULTI_AUTHORIZATIONS"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": 3,
      "index": 1,
      "name": "Rule 2",
      "rules": [
        {
          "data": [
            {
              "group": 2,
              "quorum": 1
            },
            {
              "group": 1,
              "quorum": 1
            },
            {
              "group": 3,
              "quorum": 1
            }
          ],
          "id": 3,
          "type": "MULTI_AUTHORIZATIONS"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "id": 2,
  "index": 1,
  "labels": [],
  "last_request": 27,
  "name": "ClientA COL TBTC 1",
  "parent": null,
  "pending_balance": "311",
  "status": "ACTIVE",
  "type": "Bitcoin",
  "xpub": null
}
```

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or GET /accounts/{account\_id}/balances and extract `total` or `available`. Not that some account time offer more granularity in the response payload.

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```bash
curl --request GET \
  --url https://api.vault.ledger.com/accounts/{{account_id}}/balances \
  --header 'authorization: Bearer {{access_token}}' \
  --header 'content-type: application/json' \
  --header 'x-ledger-workspace: minivault'
```

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```json
{
  "available": 9981,
  "pending": 311,
  "total": 10292
}
```

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