# BalanceLow (/docs/errors/chain/BalanceLow)

The sender's mapped account cannot cover the transaction's value plus maximum gas fee, detected during validation or when withdrawing the fee. Check the account balance against `value` plus `gas_limit` times the effective gas price.

Declared by the `EVM` pallet; it classifies to the semantic code [`insufficient_balance`](/docs/errors/insufficient-balance).

## Remediation [#remediation]

Fund the signing account or reduce the amount; check with `btcli wallet balance`

The same explanation is available in the terminal: `btcli explain BalanceLow`.