When is it cheaper to rent a Mini Excavator by the week than by the day?

From day 2. 2 days at the $800 day rate would be $1,600, but the weekly rate caps it at $1,100.

When is it cheaper to rent a Mini Excavator on the 28-day rate?

From day 22. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $3,348 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.

Mini Excavator

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Kimyahta Hairston · Excavators - Mini

Day: $800
Week: $1,100
28 days: $3,348

Daily stops winning on

day 2

2 days at the day rate would be $1,600. On the week rate it is $1,100.

Weekly stops winning on

day 22

22 days at the day rate would be $17,600. On the 28-day rate it is $3,348.

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 Mini Excavator, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$800	$800	—	day
2	$1,600	$1,100	you save $500	week
3	$2,400	$1,100	you save $1,300	week
4	$3,200	$1,100	you save $2,100	week
5	$4,000	$1,100	you save $2,900	week
6	$4,800	$1,100	you save $3,700	week
7	$5,600	$1,100	you save $4,500	week
8	$6,400	$1,900	you save $4,500	week
9	$7,200	$2,200	you save $5,000	week
10	$8,000	$2,200	you save $5,800	week
11	$8,800	$2,200	you save $6,600	week
12	$9,600	$2,200	you save $7,400	week
13	$10,400	$2,200	you save $8,200	week
14	$11,200	$2,200	you save $9,000	week
15	$12,000	$3,000	you save $9,000	week
16	$12,800	$3,300	you save $9,500	week
17	$13,600	$3,300	you save $10,300	week
18	$14,400	$3,300	you save $11,100	week
19	$15,200	$3,300	you save $11,900	week
20	$16,000	$3,300	you save $12,700	week
21	$16,800	$3,300	you save $13,500	week
22	$17,600	$3,348	you save $14,252	28-day
23	$18,400	$3,348	you save $15,052	28-day
24	$19,200	$3,348	you save $15,852	28-day
25	$20,000	$3,348	you save $16,652	28-day
26	$20,800	$3,348	you save $17,452	28-day
27	$21,600	$3,348	you save $18,252	28-day
28	$22,400	$3,348	you save $19,052	28-day
29	$23,200	$4,148	you save $19,052	day
30	$24,000	$4,448	you save $19,552	week
31	$24,800	$4,448	you save $20,352	week
32	$25,600	$4,448	you save $21,152	week
33	$26,400	$4,448	you save $21,952	week
34	$27,200	$4,448	you save $22,752	week
35	$28,000	$4,448	you save $23,552	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 · 22 days: $3,348
Rental protection (RPP): $502.20
Service fee: $334.80
Estimated total: $4,185

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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.