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There are two API calls you can use to get a balance:

## [`Client.getAddressBalances(addresses: any)`](./../libraries/wasm/api_reference#Client+getAddressBalances)

 A convenient function that expects `list` of addresses in Bech32 format and returns list of `dict` with balances for all
  given addresses.

## [`Client.getBalance(seed: string)`](./../libraries/wasm/api_reference#Client+getBalance)
 A convenient helper [`BalanceGetter`](./../libraries/wasm/api_reference#BalanceGetter) class that combines
  [`Client.getAddresses(seed: string)`](./../libraries/wasm/api_reference#Client+getAddresses) and
  `Client.getAddressBalances()` api calls. It returns a combined balance for the provided `seed` and optional chaining
  calls [`.accountIndex(index)`](./../libraries/wasm/api_reference#BalanceGetter+accountIndex),
  [`.initialAddressIndex(initial_address_index: number)`](./../libraries/wasm/api_reference#balancegetterinitialaddressindexinitial_address_index--codebalancegettercode)
  and
  [`.gap_limit(amount: number)`](./../libraries/wasm/api_reference#balancegettergap_limitgap_limit--codebalancegettercode)

`Client.getBalance(seed: string)` performs several tasks under the hood. It starts by generating addresses for the
provided `seed` and `.accountIndex` from
[`.initialAddressIndex(initial_address_index: number)`](./../libraries/wasm/api_reference#BalanceGetter+initialAddressIndex),
and checks for a balance of each of the generated addresses. Since it does not know how many addresses are used in fact,
there is a condition set by the
[`.gap_limit(amount: number)`](./../libraries/wasm/api_reference#BalanceGetter+gap_limit) argument to know when to stop
searching. If the `.gap_limit` amount of addresses in a row have no balance, the function returns results and searching
does not continue.


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Example of output:

```json
{
   "address":"atoi1qp9427varyc05py79ajku89xarfgkj74tpel5egr9y7xu3wpfc4lkpx0l86",
   "balance":10000000,
   "dustAllowed":false,
   "ledgerIndex": 2338924
}
Account balance: 0
```

- `dustAllowed` indicates whether the given address is allowed to accept a dust. You can learn more about dust
  protection in the
  [Chrysalis documentation](https://wiki.iota.org/chrysalis-docs/faq#what-is-dust-protection-and-how-does-it-work).