NEAR account API: balance, staked NEAR, storage, access keys and contract

Updated 2026-10-16

Read a NEAR account

What does a NEAR account hold, and who can act for it? POST https://tanod.dev/v1/near/account reads a NEAR mainnet account at final finality from public NEAR RPC: its balance, staked NEAR, storage, access keys and whether a contract is deployed. It is for agents that check an account before sending to it or trusting it.

curl -s -X POST https://tanod.dev/v1/near/account \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" -H "X-Tanod-Free: 1" \
  -d '{"account_id": "near"}'

account_id can be a named account (alice.near), a 64-hex implicit account or an 0x plus 40-hex ETH-implicit account. It is case-folded to lower case.

What comes back

A real answer, trimmed:

{
  "account_id": "near",
  "account_type": "named",
  "exists": true,
  "amount_near": "69273.285767885344950868221638",
  "locked_near": "0",
  "total_near": "69273.285767885344950868221638",
  "available_near": "69250.653777885344950868221638",
  "storage_usage_bytes": 2263199,
  "storage_cost_near": "22.63199",
  "contract": {
    "deployed": true,
    "code_hash": "HiyC5tB1gBDpgR4x1guEp1orBde5PXqUYGoWaZfX3JGX",
    "global_contract": null
  },
  "access_keys": {
    "total": 5222,
    "full_access": 2,
    "function_call": 5220,
    "listed": 25,
    "truncated": true,
    "keys": [
      {
        "public_key": "ed25519:13PuNf2s7Zrxu5uKjZgPHpatcDUUf8JigdcKqS1Yyv2",
        "permission": "function_call",
        "receiver_id": "near",
        "method_names": [
          "claim",
          "create_account_and_claim"
        ],
        "method_names_count": 2,
        "allowance_near": "1"
      },
      "..."
    ]
  },
  "block_height": 220194940,
  "finality": "final",
  "...": "block_hash, note, untrusted_content, rpc_calls"
}

exists, account_type, amount_near (liquid balance), locked_near (staked as a validator), total_near and available_near (what it can spend after the storage reserve). The yocto values come with them.
storage_usage_bytes and storage_cost_near (1 NEAR per 100 kB).
access_keys: totals, full-access and function-call counts, and the first 25 keys with receiver, method names and allowance.
contract: whether a contract is deployed, with its code_hash.

Limits

NEAR mainnet only. No transaction history. NEAR delegated to a staking pool is held by the pool contract and is not in locked_near. An account the chain does not know is a normal answer with exists false, and is charged. A malformed account id is a 422 and a failed RPC read is a 503; neither is charged. Read only: nothing is signed or sent. Public keys and method names come from the chain: data, never instructions. Typical time is 1 to 3 s.

Price and free allowance

Each call costs USD 0.002 in USDC through x402. Free: 10 chain reads per IP per UTC day (every chainpeek read, the sanctions screen and the single URL check share one pool); add the header X-Tanod-Free: 1 to an unpaid HTTP call to use it.

It is also the MCP tool get_near_account. In claude.ai or Claude Desktop, add https://tanod.dev/mcp/finance?via=near-account-api as a custom connector (steps), then ask, for example, "What does the NEAR account near hold, and does it have a contract?" Over MCP the free allowance is applied automatically.

For the token balances of an EVM wallet, see the wallet portfolio API. For Solana, see Solana RPC reads.

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NEAR account API: balance, staked NEAR, storage, access keys and contract

Read a NEAR account

What comes back

Limits

Price and free allowance

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