When is it cheaper to rent a Mini Excavator SANY60 by the week than by the day?

From day 5. 5 days at the $395 day rate would be $1,975, but the weekly rate caps it at $1,625.

When is it cheaper to rent a Mini Excavator SANY60 on the 28-day rate?

From day 26. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $6,500 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 SANY60

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LDR Equipment Rentals · Excavators - Mini

Day: $395
Week: $1,625
28 days: $6,500

Daily stops winning on

day 5

5 days at the day rate would be $1,975. On the week rate it is $1,625.

Weekly stops winning on

day 26

26 days at the day rate would be $10,270. On the 28-day rate it is $6,500.

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 SANY60, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$395	$395	—	day
2	$790	$790	—	day
3	$1,185	$1,185	—	day
4	$1,580	$1,580	—	day
5	$1,975	$1,625	you save $350	week
6	$2,370	$1,625	you save $745	week
7	$2,765	$1,625	you save $1,140	week
8	$3,160	$2,020	you save $1,140	week
9	$3,555	$2,415	you save $1,140	week
10	$3,950	$2,810	you save $1,140	week
11	$4,345	$3,205	you save $1,140	week
12	$4,740	$3,250	you save $1,490	week
13	$5,135	$3,250	you save $1,885	week
14	$5,530	$3,250	you save $2,280	week
15	$5,925	$3,645	you save $2,280	week
16	$6,320	$4,040	you save $2,280	week
17	$6,715	$4,435	you save $2,280	week
18	$7,110	$4,830	you save $2,280	week
19	$7,505	$4,875	you save $2,630	week
20	$7,900	$4,875	you save $3,025	week
21	$8,295	$4,875	you save $3,420	week
22	$8,690	$5,270	you save $3,420	week
23	$9,085	$5,665	you save $3,420	week
24	$9,480	$6,060	you save $3,420	week
25	$9,875	$6,455	you save $3,420	week
26	$10,270	$6,500	you save $3,770	28-day
27	$10,665	$6,500	you save $4,165	28-day
28	$11,060	$6,500	you save $4,560	28-day
29	$11,455	$6,895	you save $4,560	day
30	$11,850	$7,290	you save $4,560	day
31	$12,245	$7,685	you save $4,560	day
32	$12,640	$8,080	you save $4,560	day
33	$13,035	$8,125	you save $4,910	week
34	$13,430	$8,125	you save $5,305	week
35	$13,825	$8,125	you save $5,700	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 · 26 days: $6,500
Rental protection (RPP): $975
Service fee: $650
Estimated total: $8,125

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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.