When is it cheaper to rent a Canon M50 Camera by the week than by the day?

From day 6. 6 days at the $15.75 day rate would be $94.50, but the weekly rate caps it at $83.

When is it cheaper to rent a Canon M50 Camera on the 28-day rate?

From day 24. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $284 28-day rate, and the price stops climbing for the rest of the cycle.

Break-even duration

Equipment rents on three rates — a day rate, a week rate and a 28-day rate — and the cheapest one changes as the job runs long. This finds the two days where it changes, on a real listing’s real published rates.

Canon M50 Camera

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Devante Talukder · Cameras

Day: $15.75
Week: $83
28 days: $284

Daily stops winning on

day 6

6 days at the day rate would be $94.50. On the week rate it is $83.

Weekly stops winning on

day 24

24 days at the day rate would be $378. On the 28-day rate it is $284.

The working

Whole weeks bill at the week rate; the leftover days bill at the day rate but never add up to more than one extra week; and a whole 28-day cycle never costs more than the 28-day rate. That is the rule, applied one day at a time.

Rental price by duration for Canon M50 Camera, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$15.75	$15.75	—	day
2	$31.50	$31.50	—	day
3	$47.25	$47.25	—	day
4	$63	$63	—	day
5	$78.75	$78.75	—	day
6	$94.50	$83	you save $11.50	week
7	$110.25	$83	you save $27.25	week
8	$126	$98.75	you save $27.25	week
9	$141.75	$114.50	you save $27.25	week
10	$157.50	$130.25	you save $27.25	week
11	$173.25	$146	you save $27.25	week
12	$189	$161.75	you save $27.25	week
13	$204.75	$166	you save $38.75	week
14	$220.50	$166	you save $54.50	week
15	$236.25	$181.75	you save $54.50	week
16	$252	$197.50	you save $54.50	week
17	$267.75	$213.25	you save $54.50	week
18	$283.50	$229	you save $54.50	week
19	$299.25	$244.75	you save $54.50	week
20	$315	$249	you save $66	week
21	$330.75	$249	you save $81.75	week
22	$346.50	$264.75	you save $81.75	week
23	$362.25	$280.50	you save $81.75	week
24	$378	$284	you save $94	28-day
25	$393.75	$284	you save $109.75	28-day
26	$409.50	$284	you save $125.50	28-day
27	$425.25	$284	you save $141.25	28-day
28	$441	$284	you save $157	28-day
29	$456.75	$299.75	you save $157	day
30	$472.50	$315.50	you save $157	day
31	$488.25	$331.25	you save $157	day
32	$504	$347	you save $157	day
33	$519.75	$362.75	you save $157	day
34	$535.50	$367	you save $168.50	week
35	$551.25	$367	you save $184.25	week

Rental rates only. Protection and the marketplace service fee are added on top — see the checkout figure below.

What checkout will quote you

Rental · 24 days: $284
Rental protection (RPP): $42.60
Service fee: $28.40
Estimated total: $355

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The numbers come from one operator’s published rates, so the tool needs to know whose.

Where these numbers come from

The rates are the operator’s own, read live from their listing. The arithmetic is the same best-price billing engine that produces 2Quip invoices — not a second copy written for this page — run on the industry-standard terms: a 28-day cycle, whole weeks at the week rate, leftover days at the day rate capped at one more week.

An operator can agree different terms on an individual rental, and a long rental bills per 28-day cycle rather than in one lump. So treat this as what the rate card says, and the operator’s quote as what you are agreeing to.