When is it cheaper to rent a Bobcat E-35 Compact Excavator by the week than by the day?

From day 5. 5 days at the $220 day rate would be $1,100, but the weekly rate caps it at $939.

When is it cheaper to rent a Bobcat E-35 Compact Excavator on the 28-day rate?

From day 18. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $2,640 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.

Bobcat E-35 Compact Excavator

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XR LLC · Excavators - Mini

Day: $220
Week: $939
28 days: $2,640

Daily stops winning on

day 5

5 days at the day rate would be $1,100. On the week rate it is $939.

Weekly stops winning on

day 18

18 days at the day rate would be $3,960. On the 28-day rate it is $2,640.

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 Bobcat E-35 Compact Excavator, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$220	$220	—	day
2	$440	$440	—	day
3	$660	$660	—	day
4	$880	$880	—	day
5	$1,100	$939	you save $161	week
6	$1,320	$939	you save $381	week
7	$1,540	$939	you save $601	week
8	$1,760	$1,159	you save $601	week
9	$1,980	$1,379	you save $601	week
10	$2,200	$1,599	you save $601	week
11	$2,420	$1,819	you save $601	week
12	$2,640	$1,878	you save $762	week
13	$2,860	$1,878	you save $982	week
14	$3,080	$1,878	you save $1,202	week
15	$3,300	$2,098	you save $1,202	week
16	$3,520	$2,318	you save $1,202	week
17	$3,740	$2,538	you save $1,202	week
18	$3,960	$2,640	you save $1,320	28-day
19	$4,180	$2,640	you save $1,540	28-day
20	$4,400	$2,640	you save $1,760	28-day
21	$4,620	$2,640	you save $1,980	28-day
22	$4,840	$2,640	you save $2,200	28-day
23	$5,060	$2,640	you save $2,420	28-day
24	$5,280	$2,640	you save $2,640	28-day
25	$5,500	$2,640	you save $2,860	28-day
26	$5,720	$2,640	you save $3,080	28-day
27	$5,940	$2,640	you save $3,300	28-day
28	$6,160	$2,640	you save $3,520	28-day
29	$6,380	$2,860	you save $3,520	day
30	$6,600	$3,080	you save $3,520	day
31	$6,820	$3,300	you save $3,520	day
32	$7,040	$3,520	you save $3,520	day
33	$7,260	$3,579	you save $3,681	week
34	$7,480	$3,579	you save $3,901	week
35	$7,700	$3,579	you save $4,121	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 · 18 days: $2,640
Rental protection (RPP): $396
Service fee: $264
Estimated total: $3,300

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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.