When is it cheaper to rent a 25KW Generator by the week than by the day?

From day 6. 6 days at the $300 day rate would be $1,800, but the weekly rate caps it at $1,588.

When is it cheaper to rent a 25KW Generator on the 28-day rate?

From day 26. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $6,000 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.

25KW Generator

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Chase Lauzon · Generators - Gas

Day: $300
Week: $1,588
28 days: $6,000

Daily stops winning on

day 6

6 days at the day rate would be $1,800. On the week rate it is $1,588.

Weekly stops winning on

day 26

26 days at the day rate would be $7,800. On the 28-day rate it is $6,000.

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 25KW Generator, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$300	$300	—	day
2	$600	$600	—	day
3	$900	$900	—	day
4	$1,200	$1,200	—	day
5	$1,500	$1,500	—	day
6	$1,800	$1,588	you save $212	week
7	$2,100	$1,588	you save $512	week
8	$2,400	$1,888	you save $512	week
9	$2,700	$2,188	you save $512	week
10	$3,000	$2,488	you save $512	week
11	$3,300	$2,788	you save $512	week
12	$3,600	$3,088	you save $512	week
13	$3,900	$3,176	you save $724	week
14	$4,200	$3,176	you save $1,024	week
15	$4,500	$3,476	you save $1,024	week
16	$4,800	$3,776	you save $1,024	week
17	$5,100	$4,076	you save $1,024	week
18	$5,400	$4,376	you save $1,024	week
19	$5,700	$4,676	you save $1,024	week
20	$6,000	$4,764	you save $1,236	week
21	$6,300	$4,764	you save $1,536	week
22	$6,600	$5,064	you save $1,536	week
23	$6,900	$5,364	you save $1,536	week
24	$7,200	$5,664	you save $1,536	week
25	$7,500	$5,964	you save $1,536	week
26	$7,800	$6,000	you save $1,800	28-day
27	$8,100	$6,000	you save $2,100	28-day
28	$8,400	$6,000	you save $2,400	28-day
29	$8,700	$6,300	you save $2,400	day
30	$9,000	$6,600	you save $2,400	day
31	$9,300	$6,900	you save $2,400	day
32	$9,600	$7,200	you save $2,400	day
33	$9,900	$7,500	you save $2,400	day
34	$10,200	$7,588	you save $2,612	week
35	$10,500	$7,588	you save $2,912	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.