When is it cheaper to rent a Compact skid steer by the week than by the day?

From day 7. 7 days at the $200 day rate would be $1,400, but the weekly rate caps it at $1,302.

When is it cheaper to rent a Compact skid steer on the 28-day rate?

From day 26. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $4,800 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.

Compact skid steer

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Daniel Hernandez · Loaders - Skid Steers

Day: $200
Week: $1,302
28 days: $4,800

Daily stops winning on

day 7

7 days at the day rate would be $1,400. On the week rate it is $1,302.

Weekly stops winning on

day 26

26 days at the day rate would be $5,200. On the 28-day rate it is $4,800.

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 Compact skid steer, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$200	$200	—	day
2	$400	$400	—	day
3	$600	$600	—	day
4	$800	$800	—	day
5	$1,000	$1,000	—	day
6	$1,200	$1,200	—	day
7	$1,400	$1,302	you save $98	week
8	$1,600	$1,502	you save $98	week
9	$1,800	$1,702	you save $98	week
10	$2,000	$1,902	you save $98	week
11	$2,200	$2,102	you save $98	week
12	$2,400	$2,302	you save $98	week
13	$2,600	$2,502	you save $98	week
14	$2,800	$2,604	you save $196	week
15	$3,000	$2,804	you save $196	week
16	$3,200	$3,004	you save $196	week
17	$3,400	$3,204	you save $196	week
18	$3,600	$3,404	you save $196	week
19	$3,800	$3,604	you save $196	week
20	$4,000	$3,804	you save $196	week
21	$4,200	$3,906	you save $294	week
22	$4,400	$4,106	you save $294	week
23	$4,600	$4,306	you save $294	week
24	$4,800	$4,506	you save $294	week
25	$5,000	$4,706	you save $294	week
26	$5,200	$4,800	you save $400	28-day
27	$5,400	$4,800	you save $600	28-day
28	$5,600	$4,800	you save $800	28-day
29	$5,800	$5,000	you save $800	day
30	$6,000	$5,200	you save $800	day
31	$6,200	$5,400	you save $800	day
32	$6,400	$5,600	you save $800	day
33	$6,600	$5,800	you save $800	day
34	$6,800	$6,000	you save $800	day
35	$7,000	$6,102	you save $898	week

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

What checkout will quote you

Our pricing service couldn’t be reached just now, so there’s no checkout figure to show. The rate table above is unaffected — it’s the operator’s published card.

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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.