When is it cheaper to rent a Kubota mini excavator on the 28-day rate?

From day 14. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $2,900 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.

Kubota mini excavator

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Robert Van Horn · Excavators - Mini

Day: $199
Week: $1,595
28 days: $2,900

Daily stops winning on

Never, on this card

Seven days at the day rate still cost less than the week rate on this card.

Weekly stops winning on

day 14

14 days at the day rate would be $2,786. On the 28-day rate it is $2,900.

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 Kubota mini excavator, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$199	$199	—	day
2	$398	$398	—	day
3	$597	$597	—	day
4	$796	$796	—	day
5	$995	$995	—	day
6	$1,194	$1,194	—	day
7	$1,393	$1,595	costs $202 more	week
8	$1,592	$1,794	costs $202 more	week
9	$1,791	$1,993	costs $202 more	week
10	$1,990	$2,192	costs $202 more	week
11	$2,189	$2,391	costs $202 more	week
12	$2,388	$2,590	costs $202 more	week
13	$2,587	$2,789	costs $202 more	week
14	$2,786	$2,900	costs $114 more	28-day
15	$2,985	$2,900	you save $85	28-day
16	$3,184	$2,900	you save $284	28-day
17	$3,383	$2,900	you save $483	28-day
18	$3,582	$2,900	you save $682	28-day
19	$3,781	$2,900	you save $881	28-day
20	$3,980	$2,900	you save $1,080	28-day
21	$4,179	$2,900	you save $1,279	28-day
22	$4,378	$2,900	you save $1,478	28-day
23	$4,577	$2,900	you save $1,677	28-day
24	$4,776	$2,900	you save $1,876	28-day
25	$4,975	$2,900	you save $2,075	28-day
26	$5,174	$2,900	you save $2,274	28-day
27	$5,373	$2,900	you save $2,473	28-day
28	$5,572	$2,900	you save $2,672	28-day
29	$5,771	$3,099	you save $2,672	day
30	$5,970	$3,298	you save $2,672	day
31	$6,169	$3,497	you save $2,672	day
32	$6,368	$3,696	you save $2,672	day
33	$6,567	$3,895	you save $2,672	day
34	$6,766	$4,094	you save $2,672	day
35	$6,965	$4,495	you save $2,470	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 · 14 days: $2,900
Rental protection (RPP): $435
Service fee: $290
Estimated total: $3,625

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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.