Deriv balance

messagebalanceDeriv WebSocket APIWebSocketAccount

Returns the balance of the account the connection belongs to. With subscribe set to 1 a new message follows each time the balance changes.

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Independent and unofficialdevelopers.deriv.comchecked 12 Oct 2026The definition file it was checked against

This is a message of the Deriv WebSocket API, not an HTTP endpoint. It has no method and no path: it is sent as JSON over an open WebSocket connection.

The message

Name: balance
Direction: Request, sent by the client
Carried by: WebSocket. Deriv's page marks this call as needing a login with the trade scope, so it is sent on the connection of one account. The demo and real addresses are not opened as printed: POST /trading/v1/options/accounts/{accountId}/otp returns the address for one account with a one time password already in it.
Demo account: wss://api.derivws.com/trading/v1/options/ws/demo
Real account: wss://api.derivws.com/trading/v1/options/ws/real

Fields

Name	Type	Description
balancerequired	integer	Always 1.
subscribe	integer	1 starts a stream: the balance is sent again whenever it changes. 0 or 1.
passthrough	object	Anything you want carried through the call. It comes back unchanged inside echo_req.
req_id	integer	A number of your own that is returned on the answer, so answers can be matched to requests.

What arrives

balance: The balance now. On a stream the same message is sent again after each change.

Name	Type	Description
balance.balancerequired	number	The balance of the account.
balance.currencyrequired	string	The currency of the account.
balance.id	string	The id of the stream on this connection.
balance.loginidrequired	string	The login id of the account.
subscription.idrequired	string	The id of the stream on this connection. Sent with forget to stop it. The subscription object is present only where the request asked for a stream.
echo_reqrequired	object	A copy of the request that was sent.
msg_typerequired	string	Names the kind of answer. Here it is balance.
req_id	integer	The number the request carried. Present only where the request had one.

Sample

Written by this site from the fields recorded on this page. It has not been run against a terminal, a server or an account, and the values in it are placeholders. No credential is typed into it: where a field holds one, the placeholder says where it comes from. Nothing is entered on this site.

{
  "balance": 1,
  "subscribe": 1
}

Limits that apply at Deriv

Limit	Value	Scope	Source
Headline limit	80/min per logged in user (REST)Sources conflict developers.deriv.com states 60, checked 12 Oct 2026. Deriv's API overview in the text form it publishes for AI tools gives REST 60 requests a minute per token, where its Limits page gives 80 a minute per logged in user. The same overview also gives 100 WebSocket requests a second per connection, 100 active subscriptions per connection and 5 concurrent WebSocket connections per user, none of which the Limits page mentions. Deriv's own pages disagree; the conflict is labelled, not resolved. Pace against 60.	user, REST	developers.deriv.comchecked 12 Oct 2026