Get account balance
A query that returns the account balance for the specified account. Requesting an account balance is currently free of charge. Queries do not change the state of the account or require network consensus. The information is returned from a single node processing the query.
Query Fees
Please see the transaction and query fees table for the base transaction fee.
Please use the Hedera fee estimator to estimate your query fee cost.
Query Signing Requirements
The client operator private key is required to sign the query request.
Methods
setAccountId(<accountId>)
AccountID
The account ID to return the current balance for.
setContractId(<contractId>)
ContractID
The contract ID to return the current balance for.
//Create the account balance query
AccountBalanceQuery query = new AccountBalanceQuery()
.setAccountId(accountId);
//Sign with client operator private key and submit the query to a Hedera network
AccountBalance accountBalance = query.execute(client);
//Print the balance of hbars
System.out.println("The hbar account balance for this account is " +accountBalance.hbars);
//v2.0.0
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