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# INSUFFICIENT_BALANCE

> HTTP 409 — Insufficient balance

**HTTP status:** 409 · **Title:** "Insufficient balance"

## When it fires

The actor's smart-account USDC balance is below the requested `amount`.

## Why it happens

* You haven't funded the account yet.
* A previous trade consumed more than expected (gas + slippage) and left a sub-threshold balance.
* The auto-funding pipeline is backed up — common during very high-throughput windows.
* Org account: trade is being charged to the user but the org policy expected the org to pay (or vice versa). Check `feePayerType`.

## How to fix

* Check the current balance via `GET /v1/portfolio` — `usdcBalance` field.
* For users: fund via the webapp's onramp flow (or transfer USDC into the smart account directly).
* For orgs: the org admin tops up the org wallet.
* For staging/sandbox: use the testnet faucet flow.

## Related codes

* [`SMART_ACCOUNT_NOT_PROVISIONED`](./SMART_ACCOUNT_NOT_PROVISIONED.md), [`SPENDING_LIMIT_EXCEEDED`](./SPENDING_LIMIT_EXCEEDED.md)