Dext vs Hubdoc: Pricing and Line Item Extraction Compared

Short answer: Hubdoc is the cheaper tool by a wide margin. It costs nothing extra inside any Xero plan and $12 USD a month on its own for QuickBooks Online users, with no document cap. Dext for businesses starts at $302.50 a year for 250 documents a month, and its line item extraction is an add-on after 5 free documents. The price gap buys one real difference: Dext can read invoice line items and Hubdoc cannot, on any plan.

That makes Dext vs Hubdoc less a question of which is better and more a question of whether your bills need their lines. If every vendor bill posts to one account, paying for Dext is hard to justify. If you code lines to jobs, items or classes, Hubdoc leaves you typing. The numbers below come from each vendor's own pricing pages and from Xero, read in September 2026. You can test a multi-line bill in the tool at the top of this page while you read.

Dext vs Hubdoc pricing side by side

Dext's add-on bundles are quoted at the annual rate (the 50-document line item bundle is $246 billed yearly). Dext also sells separate practice pricing to accounting firms, starting at $17.70 per client per month on its Essentials plan and $19.20 on Advanced, both on annual subscriptions, with a plan builder that lowers the per-client rate as you add clients.

Is Hubdoc free with Xero?

Yes. Hubdoc is included at no extra cost on every Xero business plan. On the US Xero pricing page it now appears as Smart Document Capture on Early ($25 a month), Growing ($55) and Established ($90). The catch is the Xero plan, not Hubdoc: Early lets you enter only 5 bills a month, so any business with real supplier volume is on Growing or above. For a full breakdown, including the standalone QuickBooks Online plan, see our Hubdoc pricing guide for Xero and QuickBooks.

Does Hubdoc extract line items?

No. Hubdoc extracts the supplier, date and total, and stores the invoice number and due date when they are printed. Quantities, descriptions and unit prices are never read. On Xero's product ideas board, the line item request has 225 votes and the status Not in pipeline, and Xero's community manager wrote that no further developments are planned for line item extraction in Hubdoc. Xero's own advice is to use a third-party app for it.

Dext does read line items, but it meters them. Every business plan includes 5 line item documents a month. Beyond that you pay $0.50 a document, or buy a bundle of 50 for $20.50 a month on an annual plan, which works out to $0.41 a document.

What the price difference looks like at real volume

Take a US business with 200 vendor bills a month, all of which need their lines, for example a contractor coding materials to jobs.

The Dext figures use the annual base rate and the published add-on prices. Higher-volume Dext plans and bundle sizes change the math, so run your own count through Dext's slider before you decide. InvoiceExtractor Starter covers 2,500 pages a month on the Base AI model, so 200 bills leave plenty of headroom.

At 8 lines a bill, the Hubdoc rows mean 1,600 lines keyed by hand every month. That labor is the number to put next to $12. It rarely shows up in a Dext vs Hubdoc comparison, because both tools are usually compared on their subscription price alone.

Which is better, Dext or Hubdoc?

Dext is better when line item detail matters; Hubdoc is better when cost matters and header fields are enough. Hubdoc wins for a small business on Xero whose bills post to one account: it is free, it attaches the PDF to each transaction and it matches the bank feed. Dext wins for businesses and firms that need line items, supplier statement checks or bank statement extraction inside the same workflow, and will pay per document for them.

There is a third case both miss. If what you need is the line detail itself, in a spreadsheet or a clean import file, rather than a full bookkeeping capture platform, a dedicated extractor is cheaper than Dext's per-document meter and more complete than Hubdoc. Our invoice line item extraction reads every row on a bill, with description, quantity, unit price and amount, and exports Excel, CSV, JSON or a QuickBooks import file.

Is Dext worth the money?

Dext is worth it for bookkeeping firms and multi-entity businesses that use the whole platform: expense claims, supplier statement reconciliation, bank statement extraction, e-commerce imports and the practice dashboard. Firms that mostly need clean bank data can also convert PDF bank statements into an import file with a separate tool rather than paying Dext's per-sheet rate. Dext is less clearly worth it when line items are the only reason you are looking at it, because you pay a platform fee plus a per-document charge for the one feature you came for.

Watch the limits too. Dext says that once you pass your monthly document limit you can still upload, but documents are not extracted until your next billing date or an upgrade. Annual plans need 30 days notice before renewal to cancel.

How to switch from Hubdoc to Dext, or add line items without switching

You do not have to leave Hubdoc to get line items. Most small firms keep it for what it does well and route only the line-heavy bills elsewhere:

1. Sort clients by bill detail. Clients whose bills post to one account stay on Hubdoc inside Xero.
2. Route line-heavy bills to an extractor. Upload those vendor invoices, review the extracted lines, and export them.
3. Import as bills. Bring the file into Xero or QuickBooks as a bill import. Our guide to converting invoices into a Xero bill import walks through the columns Xero expects.

If you do move to Dext, start the trial with a month of your real bills, count how many need line items, and multiply by $0.50. That single number usually decides it. If you are comparing other capture tools as well, our Dext alternative for invoice line items page covers the extraction-only route in more detail.

Can Hubdoc and Dext be used together?

They can, but there is little reason to. Both publish into the same ledger, so running them side by side risks duplicate bills unless each supplier is routed to exactly one tool. If you need Hubdoc's price and Dext's line detail, pairing Hubdoc with a line item extractor gives you both without two capture platforms posting to the same books.

Bottom line

Choose Hubdoc if your bills need a header, a PDF attached and nothing more; at $0 inside Xero or $12 a month, nothing beats it. Choose Dext if you want a full capture platform and will pay per document for line items. Choose a line item extractor if the lines are the whole point. Upload one of your longest vendor bills in the tool above and see how many lines you would otherwise type.