When is it cheaper to rent a 36kW Portable Generator by the week than by the day?

From day 4. 4 days at the $255 day rate would be $1,020, but the weekly rate caps it at $875.

When is it cheaper to rent a 36kW Portable Generator on the 28-day rate?

From day 10. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $1,525 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.

36kW Portable Generator

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2Quip Corp - DBA RME & 2QUIP.AI · Generators - Diesel

Day: $255
Week: $875
28 days: $1,525

Daily stops winning on

day 4

4 days at the day rate would be $1,020. On the week rate it is $875.

Weekly stops winning on

day 10

10 days at the day rate would be $2,550. On the 28-day rate it is $1,525.

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 36kW Portable Generator, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$255	$255	—	day
2	$510	$510	—	day
3	$765	$765	—	day
4	$1,020	$875	you save $145	week
5	$1,275	$875	you save $400	week
6	$1,530	$875	you save $655	week
7	$1,785	$875	you save $910	week
8	$2,040	$1,130	you save $910	week
9	$2,295	$1,385	you save $910	week
10	$2,550	$1,525	you save $1,025	28-day
11	$2,805	$1,525	you save $1,280	28-day
12	$3,060	$1,525	you save $1,535	28-day
13	$3,315	$1,525	you save $1,790	28-day
14	$3,570	$1,525	you save $2,045	28-day
15	$3,825	$1,525	you save $2,300	28-day
16	$4,080	$1,525	you save $2,555	28-day
17	$4,335	$1,525	you save $2,810	28-day
18	$4,590	$1,525	you save $3,065	28-day
19	$4,845	$1,525	you save $3,320	28-day
20	$5,100	$1,525	you save $3,575	28-day
21	$5,355	$1,525	you save $3,830	28-day
22	$5,610	$1,525	you save $4,085	28-day
23	$5,865	$1,525	you save $4,340	28-day
24	$6,120	$1,525	you save $4,595	28-day
25	$6,375	$1,525	you save $4,850	28-day
26	$6,630	$1,525	you save $5,105	28-day
27	$6,885	$1,525	you save $5,360	28-day
28	$7,140	$1,525	you save $5,615	28-day
29	$7,395	$1,780	you save $5,615	day
30	$7,650	$2,035	you save $5,615	day
31	$7,905	$2,290	you save $5,615	day
32	$8,160	$2,400	you save $5,760	week
33	$8,415	$2,400	you save $6,015	week
34	$8,670	$2,400	you save $6,270	week
35	$8,925	$2,400	you save $6,525	week

Rental rates only. Protection and the marketplace service fee are added on top — see the checkout figure below.

What checkout will quote you

Rental · 10 days: $1,525
Rental protection (RPP): $228.75
Estimated total: $1,753.75

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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.