POST /accounts/balance/get

The /accounts/balance/get endpoint returns the real-time balance for each of an Item's accounts. While other endpoints, such as /accounts/get, return a balance object, /accounts/balance/get forces the available and current balance fields to be refreshed rather than cached. This endpoint can be used for existing Items that were added via any of Plaid’s other products. This endpoint can be used as long as Link has been initialized with any other product, balance itself is not a product that can be used to initialize Link. As this endpoint triggers a synchronous request for fresh data, latency may be higher than for other Plaid endpoints (typically less than 10 seconds, but occasionally up to 30 seconds or more); if you encounter errors, you may find it necessary to adjust your timeout period when making requests.

Note: If you are getting real-time balance for the purpose of assessing the return risk of a proposed ACH transaction, it is recommended to use /signal/evaluate instead of /accounts/balance/get. /signal/evaluate returns the same real-time balance information and also provides access to Signal Rules, which provides no-code transaction business logic configuration, backtesting and recommendations for tuning your transaction acceptance logic, and the ability to easily switch between Balance and Signal Transaction Scores as needed for ultra-low-latency, ML-powered risk assessments. For more details, see the Balance documentation.

Servers

https://production.plaid.com
https://sandbox.plaid.com

Request headers

Name	Type	Required	Description
`Content-Type`	String	Yes	The media type of the request body. Default value: "application/json"

Request body fields

Name	Type	Required	Description
`client_id`	String	No	Your Plaid API `client_id`. The `client_id` is required and may be provided either in the `PLAID-CLIENT-ID` header or as part of a request body.
`options`	Object	No	Optional parameters to `/accounts/balance/get`.
`options.min_last_updated_datetime`	String	No	Timestamp in ISO 8601 format (`YYYY-MM-DDTHH:mm:ssZ`) indicating the oldest acceptable balance when making a request to `/accounts/balance/get`. This field is only necessary when the institution is `ins_128026` (Capital One), and one or more account types being requested is a non-depository account (such as a credit card) as Capital One does not provide real-time balance for non-depository accounts. In this case, a value must be provided or an `INVALID_REQUEST` error with the code of `INVALID_FIELD` will be returned. For all other institutions, as well as for depository accounts at Capital One (including all checking and savings accounts) this field is ignored and real-time balance information will be fetched. If this field is not ignored, and no acceptable balance is available, an `INVALID_RESULT` error with the code `LAST_UPDATED_DATETIME_OUT_OF_RANGE` will be returned.
`options.account_ids[]`	Array	No	A list of `account_ids` to retrieve for the Item. The default value is `null`. Note: An error will be returned if a provided `account_id` is not associated with the Item.
`access_token`	String	Yes	The access token associated with the Item data is being requested for.
`secret`	String	No	Your Plaid API `secret`. The `secret` is required and may be provided either in the `PLAID-SECRET` header or as part of a request body.

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