Dext vs AutoEntry (And Whether You Need Either)

These two get compared constantly, and the comparison is usually written by someone who sells one of them.

Both read receipts. Both push the extracted data into Xero, QuickBooks or Sage. The differences are real but narrow: how they meter you, and what happens when your volume is lumpy.

And then there is a third option that neither vendor will mention, which is that a lot of people searching this comparison do not need an extraction tool at all.

Table of Contents

• The pricing, side by side
• How to actually compare them
• Users, and why it matters less than it looks
• The question neither vendor asks
• What you might need instead
• If you do want extraction
• TL;DR

The pricing, side by side

Read from each vendor's own pricing page on 23 September 2026.

Dext Business

• $25.21 per month, excluding tax
• $302.50 billed annually
• Includes 5 users and 250 documents per month
• Over that, you are into custom pricing

AutoEntry

• Bronze: $13 per month, 50 credits
• Silver: $24 per month, 100 credits
• Gold: $46 per month, 200 credits
• Platinum: $103 per month, 500 credits
• Diamond: $298 per month, 1,500 credits
• Sapphire: $469 per month, 2,500 credits
• Unlimited users on every plan

The catch with credits is that a credit is not a document. A purchase or sales invoice costs 1 credit. An invoice where you want the line items costs 2. A bank statement costs 3 credits per page.

So a 10-page bank statement is 30 credits. Bronze is 50 credits. You can burn a month's allowance on one statement and a handful of invoices.

How to actually compare them

Convert both to documents-per-dollar for your document mix, not the vendor's.

If your documents are mostly plain invoices with no line-item extraction, AutoEntry Silver gives you 100 documents for $24. Dext gives you 250 for $25.21. Dext wins clearly.

If you send a lot of bank statement pages, AutoEntry's 3-credits-per-page adds up fast and Dext's flat document count looks better again.

If you are well under 50 documents a month and never touch bank statements, AutoEntry Bronze at $13 is the cheapest real option on the table.

AutoEntry's unused credits roll for 90 days, which genuinely helps if your volume spikes at quarter end. Dext's allowance does not roll.

Rough rule: under about 50 simple documents a month, AutoEntry Bronze is cheapest. Above that, Dext's 250-document allowance is usually better value. That is the whole comparison, and it is smaller than the amount of content written about it.

Users, and why it matters less than it looks

AutoEntry gives unlimited users on every plan. Dext Business includes five. This reads like a big difference and mostly is not, because the buyer searching this comparison is usually one person, or one person plus an accountant who has their own login anyway.

If you are a practice, you are not on these plans at all: Dext prices practices per client per month with a ten-client minimum, and that is a different negotiation.

The question neither vendor asks

Both of these tools exist to turn a PDF into a row in a ledger.

So: who is reading those rows?

If you have a bookkeeper, or you reconcile in Xero monthly, the rows get used and the subscription earns out. Pick on the volume math above and get on with your day.

If you are a freelancer or a one-person company whose entire accounting process is handing a folder to an accountant in March, the extraction happens and then nothing consumes it. You are paying $13 to $25 a month to generate data that dies in a dashboard.

We put this to a few indie-founder accountants and the response was consistent enough to write up: they do not want your categorised data, they want the PDFs in named folders. Hand-categorised data from a non-accountant often makes their job harder, because now they have to check it.

What you might need instead

The underlying problem is usually not "my receipts are not categorised". It is "my receipts are 4,000 emails deep in Gmail and I cannot find the AWS one from March 2024".

That is a filing problem. It is solved by taking the attachment out of the email and putting it somewhere structured the day it arrives, which needs no OCR, no credits and no document cap.

AutoFileEmail does exactly that and nothing else. Receipts file to /AutoFileEmail/{sender-domain}/{year}/{month}/ in your own Google Drive, Dropbox or OneDrive. A Stripe invoice lands under stripe.com, an AWS one under amazon.com. We never open the file.

One inbox is free forever, because with no OCR there is no per-document cost to recover. Pro is $14.99 a month or $149 a year. Years already sitting in your inbox are a one-time Backfill Pack, $29 to $99.

There is a full table against Dext, and a wider list of Dext alternatives if you are still shopping.

If you do want extraction

Then buy one of them, genuinely. Some honest advice:

• Count your last three months of documents before choosing a tier. Most people guess high.
• Count bank statement pages separately if you are looking at AutoEntry. They are the credit killer.
• Check whether your accountant already has a preference. Many practices are standardised on one and will onboard you for free.
• Check whether you are already paying for Xero, because Hubdoc is bundled and you may own a third option already.

TL;DR

• Dext Business: $25.21/mo excl. tax, 5 users, 250 documents. AutoEntry: from $13/mo for 50 credits, unlimited users, credits roll 90 days.
• Under ~50 simple documents a month, AutoEntry Bronze is cheaper. Above that, Dext's 250 documents usually wins.
• Bank statements cost 3 AutoEntry credits per page and wreck the cheap tiers.
• Both only pay off if somebody consumes the extracted data. If nobody does, you want filing, not reading.

Prices were read from dext.com and autoentry.com on 23 September 2026. Verify before buying.