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

From day 6. 6 days at the $450 day rate would be $2,700, but the weekly rate caps it at $2,250.

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

From day 25. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $8,500 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.

Kubota Excvator

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Robert Michael · Excavators - Mini

Day: $450
Week: $2,250
28 days: $8,500

Daily stops winning on

day 6

6 days at the day rate would be $2,700. On the week rate it is $2,250.

Weekly stops winning on

day 25

25 days at the day rate would be $11,250. On the 28-day rate it is $8,500.

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 Kubota Excvator, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$450	$450	—	day
2	$900	$900	—	day
3	$1,350	$1,350	—	day
4	$1,800	$1,800	—	day
5	$2,250	$2,250	—	day
6	$2,700	$2,250	you save $450	week
7	$3,150	$2,250	you save $900	week
8	$3,600	$2,700	you save $900	week
9	$4,050	$3,150	you save $900	week
10	$4,500	$3,600	you save $900	week
11	$4,950	$4,050	you save $900	week
12	$5,400	$4,500	you save $900	week
13	$5,850	$4,500	you save $1,350	week
14	$6,300	$4,500	you save $1,800	week
15	$6,750	$4,950	you save $1,800	week
16	$7,200	$5,400	you save $1,800	week
17	$7,650	$5,850	you save $1,800	week
18	$8,100	$6,300	you save $1,800	week
19	$8,550	$6,750	you save $1,800	week
20	$9,000	$6,750	you save $2,250	week
21	$9,450	$6,750	you save $2,700	week
22	$9,900	$7,200	you save $2,700	week
23	$10,350	$7,650	you save $2,700	week
24	$10,800	$8,100	you save $2,700	week
25	$11,250	$8,500	you save $2,750	28-day
26	$11,700	$8,500	you save $3,200	28-day
27	$12,150	$8,500	you save $3,650	28-day
28	$12,600	$8,500	you save $4,100	28-day
29	$13,050	$8,950	you save $4,100	day
30	$13,500	$9,400	you save $4,100	day
31	$13,950	$9,850	you save $4,100	day
32	$14,400	$10,300	you save $4,100	day
33	$14,850	$10,750	you save $4,100	day
34	$15,300	$10,750	you save $4,550	week
35	$15,750	$10,750	you save $5,000	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.