When is it cheaper to rent a E38 by the week than by the day?

From day 4. 4 days at the $330 day rate would be $1,320, but the weekly rate caps it at $1,300.

When is it cheaper to rent a E38 on the 28-day rate?

From day 25. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $5,200 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.

E38

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Alexander Ramos · Excavators - Mini

Day: $330
Week: $1,300
28 days: $5,200

Daily stops winning on

day 4

4 days at the day rate would be $1,320. On the week rate it is $1,300.

Weekly stops winning on

day 25

25 days at the day rate would be $8,250. On the 28-day rate it is $5,200.

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 E38, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$330	$330	—	day
2	$660	$660	—	day
3	$990	$990	—	day
4	$1,320	$1,300	you save $20	week
5	$1,650	$1,300	you save $350	week
6	$1,980	$1,300	you save $680	week
7	$2,310	$1,300	you save $1,010	week
8	$2,640	$1,630	you save $1,010	week
9	$2,970	$1,960	you save $1,010	week
10	$3,300	$2,290	you save $1,010	week
11	$3,630	$2,600	you save $1,030	week
12	$3,960	$2,600	you save $1,360	week
13	$4,290	$2,600	you save $1,690	week
14	$4,620	$2,600	you save $2,020	week
15	$4,950	$2,930	you save $2,020	week
16	$5,280	$3,260	you save $2,020	week
17	$5,610	$3,590	you save $2,020	week
18	$5,940	$3,900	you save $2,040	week
19	$6,270	$3,900	you save $2,370	week
20	$6,600	$3,900	you save $2,700	week
21	$6,930	$3,900	you save $3,030	week
22	$7,260	$4,230	you save $3,030	week
23	$7,590	$4,560	you save $3,030	week
24	$7,920	$4,890	you save $3,030	week
25	$8,250	$5,200	you save $3,050	28-day
26	$8,580	$5,200	you save $3,380	28-day
27	$8,910	$5,200	you save $3,710	28-day
28	$9,240	$5,200	you save $4,040	28-day
29	$9,570	$5,530	you save $4,040	day
30	$9,900	$5,860	you save $4,040	day
31	$10,230	$6,190	you save $4,040	day
32	$10,560	$6,500	you save $4,060	week
33	$10,890	$6,500	you save $4,390	week
34	$11,220	$6,500	you save $4,720	week
35	$11,550	$6,500	you save $5,050	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 · 25 days: $5,200
Rental protection (RPP): $780
Service fee: $520
Estimated total: $6,500

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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.