When is it cheaper to rent a Drone E520s by the week than by the day?

From day 7. 7 days at the $20 day rate would be $140, but the weekly rate caps it at $126.

When is it cheaper to rent a Drone E520s on the 28-day rate?

From day 23. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $400 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.

Drone E520s

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Martin Ancamil · Surveying Tools

Day: $20
Week: $126
28 days: $400

Daily stops winning on

day 7

7 days at the day rate would be $140. On the week rate it is $126.

Weekly stops winning on

day 23

23 days at the day rate would be $460. On the 28-day rate it is $400.

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 Drone E520s, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$20	$20	—	day
2	$40	$40	—	day
3	$60	$60	—	day
4	$80	$80	—	day
5	$100	$100	—	day
6	$120	$120	—	day
7	$140	$126	you save $14	week
8	$160	$146	you save $14	week
9	$180	$166	you save $14	week
10	$200	$186	you save $14	week
11	$220	$206	you save $14	week
12	$240	$226	you save $14	week
13	$260	$246	you save $14	week
14	$280	$252	you save $28	week
15	$300	$272	you save $28	week
16	$320	$292	you save $28	week
17	$340	$312	you save $28	week
18	$360	$332	you save $28	week
19	$380	$352	you save $28	week
20	$400	$372	you save $28	week
21	$420	$378	you save $42	week
22	$440	$398	you save $42	week
23	$460	$400	you save $60	28-day
24	$480	$400	you save $80	28-day
25	$500	$400	you save $100	28-day
26	$520	$400	you save $120	28-day
27	$540	$400	you save $140	28-day
28	$560	$400	you save $160	28-day
29	$580	$420	you save $160	day
30	$600	$440	you save $160	day
31	$620	$460	you save $160	day
32	$640	$480	you save $160	day
33	$660	$500	you save $160	day
34	$680	$520	you save $160	day
35	$700	$526	you save $174	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.