When is it cheaper to rent a Kubota 75-3 by the week than by the day?

From day 2. 2 days at the $900 day rate would be $1,800, but the weekly rate caps it at $1,308.

When is it cheaper to rent a Kubota 75-3 on the 28-day rate?

From day 16. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $3,900 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 75-3

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Eli Chimera · Tractors - Compact

Day: $900
Week: $1,308
28 days: $3,900

Daily stops winning on

day 2

2 days at the day rate would be $1,800. On the week rate it is $1,308.

Weekly stops winning on

day 16

16 days at the day rate would be $14,400. On the 28-day rate it is $3,900.

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 75-3, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$900	$900	—	day
2	$1,800	$1,308	you save $492	week
3	$2,700	$1,308	you save $1,392	week
4	$3,600	$1,308	you save $2,292	week
5	$4,500	$1,308	you save $3,192	week
6	$5,400	$1,308	you save $4,092	week
7	$6,300	$1,308	you save $4,992	week
8	$7,200	$2,208	you save $4,992	week
9	$8,100	$2,616	you save $5,484	week
10	$9,000	$2,616	you save $6,384	week
11	$9,900	$2,616	you save $7,284	week
12	$10,800	$2,616	you save $8,184	week
13	$11,700	$2,616	you save $9,084	week
14	$12,600	$2,616	you save $9,984	week
15	$13,500	$3,516	you save $9,984	week
16	$14,400	$3,900	you save $10,500	28-day
17	$15,300	$3,900	you save $11,400	28-day
18	$16,200	$3,900	you save $12,300	28-day
19	$17,100	$3,900	you save $13,200	28-day
20	$18,000	$3,900	you save $14,100	28-day
21	$18,900	$3,900	you save $15,000	28-day
22	$19,800	$3,900	you save $15,900	28-day
23	$20,700	$3,900	you save $16,800	28-day
24	$21,600	$3,900	you save $17,700	28-day
25	$22,500	$3,900	you save $18,600	28-day
26	$23,400	$3,900	you save $19,500	28-day
27	$24,300	$3,900	you save $20,400	28-day
28	$25,200	$3,900	you save $21,300	28-day
29	$26,100	$4,800	you save $21,300	day
30	$27,000	$5,208	you save $21,792	week
31	$27,900	$5,208	you save $22,692	week
32	$28,800	$5,208	you save $23,592	week
33	$29,700	$5,208	you save $24,492	week
34	$30,600	$5,208	you save $25,392	week
35	$31,500	$5,208	you save $26,292	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 · 16 days: $3,900
Rental protection (RPP): $585
Service fee: $390
Estimated total: $4,875

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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.