Tanvir Alam•Aug 26, 2026•6 min read•Comparisons
Dext charges UK practices on a per-client basis, meaning costs rise continuously as your practice grows, while Receiptflow offers flat-tier pricing from £150/month with no per-client fees.
Dext pricing in the UK is not a flat monthly fee. It scales per client, which means the question 'how ?' has a different answer depending on how many clients are on your account and that answer changes every time you onboard someone new.
This post breaks down the real numbers at 10, 25, and 50 clients. Not the headline rate. The per-client unit cost, the annual total, and what happens when you layer in add-ons and MTD obligations on top.
If you are an independent UK practice currently on Dext, or evaluating it for the first time, these are the figures worth knowing before you commit.
Dext moved all UK practices to per-client pricing in August 2023, when it eliminated its unlimited practice plans. Practices that had been on flat fees at that point saw their costs increase by 200 to 400 per cent at renewal, as widely reported on AccountingWEB. The per-client model has been the standard ever since.
Under this structure, your monthly cost is determined by the number of client companies on your account. There is no fixed ceiling within a tier at which growth becomes cost-neutral. Every client you add adds cost.
Dext does publish its UK practice rates on a build-a-plan page, so the figures are available without a sales call but you need to input your exact client count to see what applies to you.
These figures are based on Dext's published UK practice pricing as of June 2026, ex-VAT. Monthly figures use standard billing terms.
At 10 client companies, Dext's practice plan pricing sits in the range of £190 to £240 per month, depending on billing frequency and any promotional rate applied at sign-up. Using the midpoint of £215 per month as a working figure:
For a sole practitioner or a very small practice, this is not an insignificant overhead. At 10 clients, you are spending roughly £258 per client per year on receipt management software alone.
At 25 clients, the per-client rate remains consistent with Dext's model, each additional client adds to the base cost. Based on the published pricing trajectory:
At this stage, the per-client unit rate begins to fall slightly as volume increases. But the total monthly spend is now material for a practice that may be billing each of those 25 clients between £500 and £1,500 a year.
At 50 clients, Dext's published UK practice plan rate is £391 per month, ex-VAT (June 2026).
This is Dext's most-quoted figure for mid-size independent practices. It is also the point at which the comparison with flat-rate alternatives becomes most stark.
Thinking about switching? Receiptflow's Essential plan covers up to 50 clients at £150/month, no per-client fees, no surprises at renewal. Compare Receiptflow pricing. Flat rate, no per-client fees.
The base plan figures above cover Dext Prepare, the core receipt capture and pre-accounting workflow. They do not include everything a practice might need.
Dext Precision is a separate product that provides bookkeeping health checks, coding consistency reports, and error-spotting across your client files. It is not included in Dext Prepare plans and carries an additional monthly cost. Practices that use both products pay for them separately.
If you are comparing Dext's all-in cost against a simpler alternative, Precision is a line item worth including in your calculation.
Dext Commerce handles e-commerce data ingestion. Pulling transaction-level data from platforms like Shopify, Amazon, and Stripe into your accounting software. Again, this is a separate product from Dext Prepare, with its own pricing.
Practices with e-commerce clients may find themselves running two or three Dext products simultaneously. The headline practice plan rate covers one of them.
Making Tax Digital for Income Tax (MTD IT) came into effect for self-employed individuals and landlords with income above £50,000 from April 2026. The threshold drops to £30,000 from April 2027, pulling in an estimated 780,000 UK sole traders and landlords in the first two waves alone.
Dext Solo is Dext's MTD IT solution, designed for accountants managing self-employed and landlord clients under the new regime. It operates within the Dext Practice platform and handles digital record-keeping and quarterly submission requirements.
The cost of Dext Solo is separate from your standard Dext Prepare practice plan. Pricing varies depending on client volume and is not publicly listed. Contact Dext directly for exact figures. But if you have a meaningful number of sole trader or landlord clients coming into scope for MTD IT, this is an additional line in your software budget that did not exist before April 2026.
At 50 clients, a practice running Dext Prepare as its core receipt tool pays £4,692 per year at published rates. Add Dext Precision for bookkeeping health checks and you are looking at a materially higher annual spend. Add Dext Solo for MTD clients on top, and the combined cost across all three products can reach a figure that is difficult to justify against what the tools actually deliver for a standard independent practice.
None of this is hidden. Dext publishes what it can. But the full cost rarely appears in a single place, and practices often arrive at the real number only when they sit down to do a proper review.
Receiptflow prices by client tier, not per client. The monthly rate is fixed within each tier. Adding clients does not increase your bill until you cross a tier threshold.
| Practice size | Dext (per month, ex-VAT) | Receiptflow (per month, ex-VAT) | Annual saving | Winner |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10 clients | ~£215 | £150 | ~£780 | ✅ Receiptflow |
| 25 clients | ~£310 | £150 | ~£1,920 | ✅ Receiptflow |
| 50 clients | £391 | £150 | £2,892 | ✅ Receiptflow |
The Receiptflow Essential plan at £150/month covers up to 50 clients. A 10-client practice and a 49-client practice pay the same rate. There are no per-client fees, no add-on tiers for core functionality, and no cost increase as the practice grows within the tier.
For practices that use receipt capture, OCR extraction, and accounting software integration which covers the core workflow for the majority of independent UK firms. Receiptflow delivers the same essential output at a significantly lower cost.
Dext is a capable product, particularly for practices that use its full feature set: Precision, Commerce, expense management, mileage tracking, and now Solo for MTD clients. If those features are actively used, the per-client cost is easier to justify.
But for practices that primarily need clean receipt capture, reliable OCR, and seamless pushes to Xero or QuickBooks, the question is whether the full Dext cost is proportionate to what the practice actually uses.
At 10 clients, you are spending roughly £2,580 a year. At 25, somewhere between £3,600 and £3,840. At 50, £4,692. In each case, Receiptflow's flat £150/month comes in below those figures and the gap grows as client numbers rise.
The maths is not complicated. Whether it is worth acting on depends on your feature requirements, your client mix, and how much the MTD add-on changes the overall calculation for your specific practice.
Compare Receiptflow pricing. Flat rate, no per-client fees. See our plans.
Dext's UK practice pricing for 10 clients sits in the range of approximately £190 to £240 per month based on published rates, equating to around £2,280 to £2,880 per year ex-VAT. You need to contact Dext or use their build-a-plan page to get an exact quote for your client count.
Yes. Since August 2023, Dext has used per-client pricing for all UK accounting practices. Your monthly cost scales with the number of client companies on your account, with no fixed ceiling within a plan tier.
Dext Solo is Dext's MTD IT solution for accountants managing self-employed and landlord clients under Making Tax Digital for Income Tax. It is a separate product from Dext Prepare and carries an additional cost not included in standard practice plan pricing. Contact Dext for current rates.
Dext Prepare is the core receipt capture and pre-accounting product. Dext Precision provides bookkeeping health checks and coding error reports. Dext Commerce handles e-commerce data from platforms like Shopify and Amazon. Each is a separate product with separate pricing. The standard practice plan covers Prepare only.
At 50 clients, Dext costs £391/month ex-VAT based on June 2026 published rates. Receiptflow's Essential plan covers up to 50 clients at £150/month ex-VAT, a saving of £241/month or £2,892 per year, with no per-client fees.
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