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.

John Deere Tractor with Loader and Bush Hog

See the listing →

Pierce Woodard · Tractors - Compact

Day
$200
Week
$800
28 days
$2,850

Daily stops winning on

day 5

5 days at the day rate would be $1,000. On the week rate it is $800.

Weekly stops winning on

day 24

24 days at the day rate would be $4,800. On the 28-day rate it is $2,850.

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 John Deere Tractor with Loader and Bush Hog, days 1 to 35
DaysAt the day rateOn the ladderDifferenceRate in play
1$200$200—day
2$400$400—day
3$600$600—day
4$800$800—day
5$1,000$800you save $200week
6$1,200$800you save $400week
7$1,400$800you save $600week
8$1,600$1,000you save $600week
9$1,800$1,200you save $600week
10$2,000$1,400you save $600week
11$2,200$1,600you save $600week
12$2,400$1,600you save $800week
13$2,600$1,600you save $1,000week
14$2,800$1,600you save $1,200week
15$3,000$1,800you save $1,200week
16$3,200$2,000you save $1,200week
17$3,400$2,200you save $1,200week
18$3,600$2,400you save $1,200week
19$3,800$2,400you save $1,400week
20$4,000$2,400you save $1,600week
21$4,200$2,400you save $1,800week
22$4,400$2,600you save $1,800week
23$4,600$2,800you save $1,800week
24$4,800$2,850you save $1,95028-day
25$5,000$2,850you save $2,15028-day
26$5,200$2,850you save $2,35028-day
27$5,400$2,850you save $2,55028-day
28$5,600$2,850you save $2,75028-day
29$5,800$3,050you save $2,750day
30$6,000$3,250you save $2,750day
31$6,200$3,450you save $2,750day
32$6,400$3,650you save $2,750day
33$6,600$3,650you save $2,950week
34$6,800$3,650you save $3,150week
35$7,000$3,650you save $3,350week

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.

Pick a listing

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.