Distil vs AutoEntry
A credit meter against a flat monthly allowance.
Every AutoEntry figure on this page was checked on 22 August 2026.
The two price shapes
Distil Solo
The practice entry plan. Every feature is on every tier.
£35a month, per practice
- 250 invoice documents a month
- 100 statement pages a month
- No per-client fee, and no minimum licence count
- Unlimited users
- MTD VAT and MTD for Income Tax filing to HMRC
- Every document is stored in UK data centres, encrypted at rest, and kept for seven years from upload, which covers the six-year HMRC rule.
14-day free trial. Cancel inside it and you pay nothing. No VAT added at checkout.
AutoEntry
AutoEntry Bronze, 50 credits
£14a month
- Silver 100 credits £25, Gold 200 credits £47
- Platinum 500 credits £108, Diamond 1,500 credits £300
- Sapphire 2,500 credits £469
- An invoice is 1 credit, with line items 2, a bank statement 3 credits per page
Published figures, read on 22 August 2026.
What a month costs when the work is mixed
AutoEntry’s column is its published tier price for the credit count each scenario consumes, at its published credit rates. Distil’s is the tier whose monthly allowance covers the same work. Distil counts documents and statement pages rather than credits, so line items never change what a plan costs and a statement page costs one page whatever is printed on it.
| Volume | AutoEntry | Distil |
|---|---|---|
| 500 invoicesheader level, so 500 credits | ~£108 (Platinum) | £95Starter |
| 500 invoices with line itemsline-item extraction is 2 credits each, so 1,000 credits | ~£300 (Diamond) | £95Starter |
| 500 invoices and 50 bank statements500 credits, plus 3 credits a page across about 150 pages | ~£300 (Diamond) | £95Starter |
Where the two differ.
“Not published” means we did not find it on AutoEntry's own pages when we checked on 22 August 2026. It is a statement about our check, not about the product. Check autoentry.com for what is current.
| Capability | Distil | AutoEntry |
|---|---|---|
| Invoice and receipt extraction | Included | 1 credit, or 2 with line items |
| Bank statement extraction | Included | 3 credits a page |
| Bank reconciliation | Auto-match, at practice scale | Not published |
| Categorisation that learns per client | Two-tier supplier rules | Supplier rules |
| Publishing to Xero and QuickBooks | Included | Included |
| Its own general ledger and seal | Included | Not published |
| MTD VAT filing to HMRC | Included | Not published |
| MTD for Income Tax | Yes | Not published |
| P&L, cash flow and balance sheet | Included | Not published |
| Sales invoicing | Included | Not published |
| Mileage at HMRC rates | Included | Not published |
| Client upload links, no client account | Included | Not published |
| Seven-year document storage (covers HMRC six-year rule) | Included | Not published |
What AutoEntry does well.
A comparison that only lists one side is not a comparison. These are real reasons to choose the other one.
Direct Sage connection
AutoEntry is part of Sage and connects to it without a CSV step. Distil exports CSV for Sage.
A very low entry price
Bronze is £14 a month for 50 credits, which is cheaper than any Distil plan if a practice puts through fewer than fifty documents a month.
A wider integration range
More accounting packages than Distil’s Xero, QuickBooks and its own ledger.
Which one to pick.
Distil
Choose Distil if you would rather not price a month in advance. A Distil plan costs the same whether a document arrives with line items or without, a bank statement is counted by its pages at no premium for what they contain, and the work carries on into reconciliation, a sealed ledger and an MTD VAT return.
AutoEntry
Choose AutoEntry if you need the direct Sage connection, or if the volume is small enough that Bronze covers it.
Try it against your own month.
A 14-day free trial, and cancelling inside it costs nothing. Pick the plan whose allowance covers the documents your practice already puts through.
Comparing something else?
Distil’s prices and allowances on this page are read live from its own plan configuration, so they are whatever Distil currently charges. AutoEntry figures are figures read off the vendor’s own published pages on 22 August 2026 and recorded in docs/handoffs/pricing-to-marketing-copy-2026-08-22.md §3. AutoEntry is a trademark of Sage Group plc. Distil is not affiliated with AutoEntry or Sage. Visit autoentry.com for their current pricing.