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

From day 3. 3 days at the $425 day rate would be $1,275, but the weekly rate caps it at $1,175.

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

From day 16. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $2,975 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.

Excavator

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juan carbajal · Excavators - Crawler

Day: $425
Week: $1,175
28 days: $2,975

Daily stops winning on

day 3

3 days at the day rate would be $1,275. On the week rate it is $1,175.

Weekly stops winning on

day 16

16 days at the day rate would be $6,800. On the 28-day rate it is $2,975.

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 Excavator, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$425	$425	—	day
2	$850	$850	—	day
3	$1,275	$1,175	you save $100	week
4	$1,700	$1,175	you save $525	week
5	$2,125	$1,175	you save $950	week
6	$2,550	$1,175	you save $1,375	week
7	$2,975	$1,175	you save $1,800	week
8	$3,400	$1,600	you save $1,800	week
9	$3,825	$2,025	you save $1,800	week
10	$4,250	$2,350	you save $1,900	week
11	$4,675	$2,350	you save $2,325	week
12	$5,100	$2,350	you save $2,750	week
13	$5,525	$2,350	you save $3,175	week
14	$5,950	$2,350	you save $3,600	week
15	$6,375	$2,775	you save $3,600	week
16	$6,800	$2,975	you save $3,825	28-day
17	$7,225	$2,975	you save $4,250	28-day
18	$7,650	$2,975	you save $4,675	28-day
19	$8,075	$2,975	you save $5,100	28-day
20	$8,500	$2,975	you save $5,525	28-day
21	$8,925	$2,975	you save $5,950	28-day
22	$9,350	$2,975	you save $6,375	28-day
23	$9,775	$2,975	you save $6,800	28-day
24	$10,200	$2,975	you save $7,225	28-day
25	$10,625	$2,975	you save $7,650	28-day
26	$11,050	$2,975	you save $8,075	28-day
27	$11,475	$2,975	you save $8,500	28-day
28	$11,900	$2,975	you save $8,925	28-day
29	$12,325	$3,400	you save $8,925	day
30	$12,750	$3,825	you save $8,925	day
31	$13,175	$4,150	you save $9,025	week
32	$13,600	$4,150	you save $9,450	week
33	$14,025	$4,150	you save $9,875	week
34	$14,450	$4,150	you save $10,300	week
35	$14,875	$4,150	you save $10,725	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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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.