Dext Pricing in the UK (2026): What You Actually Pay
The business plan, the per-client practice plans, the add-ons that move the bill, and what Hubdoc, AutoEntry and CodeIQ cost for the same work.
Why Dext's price is hard to pin down
Dext is the receipt and invoice capture tool most UK practices have used at some point, and it is one of the few in its category that will not give you a single number. Businesses see one plan on the pricing page. Practices see three tiers, of which only the smallest shows a price, and a configurator for the rest. On top of both sits a list of add-ons, each charged separately, for jobs many buyers assume are included.
So the honest answer to "how much is Dext?" has three parts: what the plan costs, which add-ons your documents will trigger, and, if you are a practice, what the quote comes back at. Below are the figures Dext publishes, checked on its UK pages on 5 October 2026, the ones it does not publish, and the same sums for Hubdoc, AutoEntry and our own CodeIQ.
Quick answer
Dext's UK business plan costs £290 a year excluding VAT, shown as £24.17 a month, for 250 documents and five users; line items, supplier statements and bank statements beyond small allowances are add-ons. Practices pay per client: the Solo plan for MTD sole traders and landlords is £2.50 a client a month, while Essentials and Advanced are priced by quote. Hubdoc is included with Xero, AutoEntry sells credits, and CodeIQ charges credits per bank line coded.
- Dext Business: £290 a year excluding VAT for 250 documents and 5 users; paying monthly costs more.
- Dext for practices: Solo is £2.50 a client a month; Essentials and Advanced are by quote, with a ten-client minimum.
- Hubdoc comes free with Xero; AutoEntry and CodeIQ charge credits, so the cost follows your volume.
All prices on this page exclude VAT unless stated otherwise.
Dext for a business: one plan, then add-ons
Dext's UK business pricing page shows a single plan. On annual billing it is £290 a year, which Dext displays as £24.17 a month. Paying monthly costs more: Dext says the annual subscription is "up to 19% cheaper". There is a 14-day trial, and Dext does not ask for card details to start it.
| Dext business plan | What you get |
|---|---|
| Price | £290 a year (£24.17 a month), excluding VAT |
| Documents | 250 a month |
| Users | 5 |
| Included extraction | 10 sheets of bank statements, 5 documents with line items and 5 supplier statements a month |
| Trial | 14 days, no card needed |
Source: Dext UK business pricing, retrieved 5 October 2026.
The included allowances are the part to read twice. Header-level capture, the supplier, date, totals and VAT, is in the plan. Line-by-line extraction, supplier statements and bank statements are included only in small numbers each month, then charged as add-ons:
| Dext add-on | Price |
|---|---|
| Line item extraction | From £16.50 a month, or 40p a document |
| Supplier statement extraction | From £16.50 a month, or 40p a document |
| Bank statement extraction | From £10 a month, or 25p a document |
| AI Assist | £7.50 a month (Dext's offer price until 31 October) |
| Commerce Lite | From £5 a month |
| Payments | From 25p a payment |
| Vault storage | Free to 100MB, then from £2 a month |
Source: Dext UK business pricing, retrieved 5 October 2026.
A worked example shows how far the headline moves. Take a small business that photographs around 150 receipts a month and needs line items on 40 supplier invoices. The receipts sit comfortably inside the 250 documents. The line items run 35 over the five included, and at 40p each that is £14. So the realistic bill is about £38 a month on annual billing before AI Assist, against a headline of £24.17, and any PDF bank statements beyond the ten included sheets are charged on top. None of this is hidden; it is all on the pricing page. It is just not the number people quote.
Dext for practices: per client, mostly by quote
Practices buy Dext per client, on an annual subscription billed monthly. Dext publishes a price for one of its three practice plans:
- Solo: £2.50 a client a month, minimum five clients. Built for MTD for Income Tax: capture through the mobile and web apps and other channels, document extraction, bank feeds, rental statement extraction and quarterly updates to HMRC for self-employed and landlord clients.
- Essentials: price not published, minimum ten clients. Adds auto-categorisation, supplier rules, supplier statement reconciliation, approvals, line item extraction, bank matching, missing-paperwork requests, auto-publish and more than 36 accounting integrations.
- Advanced: price not published, minimum ten clients. Adds team and location management, practice reporting, time tracking, and employee expense and mileage tracking.
- Per-client add-ons: AI Assist £5, data health and insights £5, Commerce Lite £5 and Payments £10, each a client a month.
Source: Dext partner pricing, retrieved 5 October 2026.
For Essentials and Advanced, Dext's page offers a configurator rather than a figure ("No two client lists look alike"). The most recent independent number we found is from Tailride's review, updated on 27 August 2026, which puts practice pricing at roughly 17.70 to 19.20 a client a month with a ten-client minimum. Tailride quotes it in dollars, so treat it as a guide and ask Dext for a quote.
If that range holds in pounds, 30 bookkeeping clients on Essentials comes to between £531 and £576 a month, roughly £6,400 to £6,900 a year, before any per-client add-ons. That is the figure to set against what the tool saves. If it takes an hour a month off each client, it pays for itself at almost any charge-out rate. Whether it does depends on how much of that hour is capture, which Dext does very well, and how much is coding and checking the bank, which is where most of the time usually goes.
Hubdoc: free with Xero, but header data only
Hubdoc is the cheapest option on paper, because for most UK users it costs nothing extra. Xero's UK pricing page says Hubdoc is "included in Xero Simple, Ignite, Grow, Comprehensive and Ultimate plans as long as it's connected to your Xero subscription". On its own, Hubdoc lists at $12 (US) a month after a 30-day trial.
The trade-off is depth. Hubdoc captures the header of a document, the supplier, date and total, rather than its line items, and it is built around Xero. If your clients are on Xero and their paperwork is simple, it is hard to argue with free. Our Hubdoc alternatives and pricing guide covers where it runs out.
AutoEntry: credits, not documents
AutoEntry, part of Sage, sells monthly credit bundles rather than document allowances, with unlimited users on every plan and unused credits kept for 90 days. What a document costs depends on what it is:
| Document | Credits |
|---|---|
| Invoice or receipt | 1 |
| Invoice with line items | 2 |
| Supplier statement | 2 |
| Bank statement page | 3 |
Source: AutoEntry pricing, retrieved 5 October 2026.
AutoEntry's pricing page lists plans from 50 to 2,500 credits a month. Viewed from outside the UK it shows $13 for 50 credits up to $469 for 2,500, and it bills UK customers in sterling; we could not confirm the sterling figures on its site today, so check them at checkout. The model suits practices with lumpy volume, because one pool of credits covers every client. Our AutoEntry alternatives piece goes further.
Dext, Hubdoc, AutoEntry and CodeIQ side by side
| How it charges | Entry price | Line items | Best at | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dext (business) | One plan plus add-ons | £290 a year | 5 a month included, then 40p each | Capture and extraction for one business |
| Dext (practice) | Per client; quotes above Solo | Solo £2.50 a client a month (min 5) | On Essentials and Advanced | Getting paperwork in across a practice |
| Hubdoc | Included with Xero | £0 on a Xero plan ($12 standalone) | No, header only | Free capture for Xero users |
| AutoEntry | Credits per document | From 50 credits a month | 2 credits a document | Volume that swings month to month |
| CodeIQ | Credits per transaction coded | £5 a month for 5,000 credits | Reads invoices and receipts, 10 credits each | Coding the bank, VAT and invoice matching |
Excluding VAT. Dext, Hubdoc, AutoEntry and Xero figures from their own pricing pages on 5 October 2026; CodeIQ from ReconcileIQ pricing.
What CodeIQ replaces, and what it doesn't
CodeIQ, part of ReconcileIQ, is not a like-for-like Dext replacement, and it is worth being exact about why. Dext's strength is getting the paperwork in: fetching from suppliers, chasing missing documents, capture from several channels and approvals. CodeIQ's strength is the step after that, coding the bank.
What CodeIQ does
- Codes each bank transaction through an eight-phase pipeline: transfers, invoice matching, the client's own history, a shared pattern library, merchant categories, meaning-based matching, your corrections and VAT
- Reads invoices and receipts (PDF, PNG or JPG) and matches payments to the invoices they settle
- Splits eBay, Amazon and PayPal settlements into sales, fees and refunds
- Posts to Xero, QuickBooks, Sage and Pandle
What it doesn't do
- Fetch invoices from supplier portals
- Chase clients for missing paperwork
- Take documents by email forwarding or WhatsApp; files come in by upload
- Run an approvals workflow on bills
On recurring transactions CodeIQ gets around 95% right first time, and on transactions it has never seen before, 80 to 85%. Anything it is unsure of is flagged for you rather than guessed.
It charges credits: 4 for each bank line it codes and 10 for each document it reads. Plans start at £5 a month for 5,000 credits, with the Accountant plan at £15 for 25,000. For practices, Practice Essential is £78 a month for 50,000 credits and up to 50 connected clients, Practice Pro £158 for 150,000 credits and 250 clients, and Enterprise £398 for 500,000 credits and 1,000 clients.
The per-client sum looks like this. A practice coding 30 clients, each with 150 bank lines and 20 documents a month, uses 30 × (150 × 4 + 20 × 10) = 24,000 credits. That fits inside Practice Essential's 50,000, so about £2.60 a client a month. It is not the same job as Dext, so the fair comparison is the hours each one saves, not the price per client, and plenty of practices will run both: Dext to get the paperwork in, CodeIQ to code the bank against it.
Who should pick what
- Hubdoc if your clients are on Xero and their paperwork is simple: it is already paid for.
- Dext if getting paperwork in is the bottleneck, with supplier fetch, chasing, approvals and line items across a practice, and you are content to pay per client.
- AutoEntry if your volume swings from month to month and you would rather buy a pool of credits than pay per client.
- CodeIQ if the bottleneck is coding and checking the bank, on its own or alongside any of the three.
Sources, all retrieved 5 October 2026: Dext business pricing, Dext partner pricing, Tailride, Dext alternatives for UK firms (updated 27 August 2026), Xero UK pricing, Hubdoc pricing, AutoEntry pricing.
See what coding the bank costs you
Put one month of a client's bank statement through CodeIQ and count the corrections. Every account starts with 1,000 free credits, enough to code about 250 lines.
Try CodeIQ freeFrequently Asked Questions
Dext's UK business plan is £290 a year excluding VAT, which Dext shows as £24.17 a month, for 250 documents a month and five users. Line items, supplier statements and bank statements beyond small included allowances are charged as add-ons, from 40p, 40p and 25p a document. Paying monthly costs more than paying annually.
Practices pay per client on an annual subscription billed monthly. The Solo plan, built for MTD for Income Tax sole traders and landlords, is £2.50 a client a month with a five-client minimum. Essentials and Advanced have a ten-client minimum and are priced by quote; one independent review put them at roughly 17.70 to 19.20 a client a month in August 2026.
Yes. Dext says annual billing is up to 19% cheaper than monthly. The £290 a year business price is the annual price.
With Xero, yes. Xero's UK pricing page says Hubdoc is included in Simple, Ignite, Grow, Comprehensive and Ultimate as long as it is connected to your Xero subscription. On its own it lists at $12 a month. It captures a document's header details rather than its line items.
AutoEntry sells monthly credit bundles with unlimited users. An invoice or receipt costs 1 credit, an invoice with line items 2, a supplier statement 2 and a bank statement page 3, and unused credits are kept for 90 days.
It depends on the job. For capture on Xero, Hubdoc is already included in your plan. For coding bank transactions, CodeIQ by ReconcileIQ charges 4 credits a line, with plans from £5 a month for 5,000 credits and practice plans from £78 a month for up to 50 clients. It does not fetch supplier invoices or chase paperwork, so it complements Dext rather than copying it.