When is it cheaper to rent a Kubota KXO40-4 Mini-Excavator by the week than by the day?

From day 5. 5 days at the $298 day rate would be $1,490, but the weekly rate caps it at $1,272.

When is it cheaper to rent a Kubota KXO40-4 Mini-Excavator on the 28-day rate?

From day 22. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $3,844 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.

Kubota KXO40-4 Mini-Excavator

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Coldspring Rental · Excavators - Mini

Day: $298
Week: $1,272
28 days: $3,844

Daily stops winning on

day 5

5 days at the day rate would be $1,490. On the week rate it is $1,272.

Weekly stops winning on

day 22

22 days at the day rate would be $6,556. On the 28-day rate it is $3,844.

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 Kubota KXO40-4 Mini-Excavator, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$298	$298	—	day
2	$596	$596	—	day
3	$894	$894	—	day
4	$1,192	$1,192	—	day
5	$1,490	$1,272	you save $218	week
6	$1,788	$1,272	you save $516	week
7	$2,086	$1,272	you save $814	week
8	$2,384	$1,570	you save $814	week
9	$2,682	$1,868	you save $814	week
10	$2,980	$2,166	you save $814	week
11	$3,278	$2,464	you save $814	week
12	$3,576	$2,544	you save $1,032	week
13	$3,874	$2,544	you save $1,330	week
14	$4,172	$2,544	you save $1,628	week
15	$4,470	$2,842	you save $1,628	week
16	$4,768	$3,140	you save $1,628	week
17	$5,066	$3,438	you save $1,628	week
18	$5,364	$3,736	you save $1,628	week
19	$5,662	$3,816	you save $1,846	week
20	$5,960	$3,816	you save $2,144	week
21	$6,258	$3,816	you save $2,442	week
22	$6,556	$3,844	you save $2,712	28-day
23	$6,854	$3,844	you save $3,010	28-day
24	$7,152	$3,844	you save $3,308	28-day
25	$7,450	$3,844	you save $3,606	28-day
26	$7,748	$3,844	you save $3,904	28-day
27	$8,046	$3,844	you save $4,202	28-day
28	$8,344	$3,844	you save $4,500	28-day
29	$8,642	$4,142	you save $4,500	day
30	$8,940	$4,440	you save $4,500	day
31	$9,238	$4,738	you save $4,500	day
32	$9,536	$5,036	you save $4,500	day
33	$9,834	$5,116	you save $4,718	week
34	$10,132	$5,116	you save $5,016	week
35	$10,430	$5,116	you save $5,314	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.