When is it cheaper to rent a excavator g26 by the week than by the day?

From day 4. 4 days at the $480 day rate would be $1,920, but the weekly rate caps it at $1,800.

When is it cheaper to rent a excavator g26 on the 28-day rate?

From day 22. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $5,500 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.

excavator g26

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carlos gomez · Excavators - Crawler

Day: $480
Week: $1,800
28 days: $5,500

Daily stops winning on

day 4

4 days at the day rate would be $1,920. On the week rate it is $1,800.

Weekly stops winning on

day 22

22 days at the day rate would be $10,560. On the 28-day rate it is $5,500.

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 excavator g26, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$480	$480	—	day
2	$960	$960	—	day
3	$1,440	$1,440	—	day
4	$1,920	$1,800	you save $120	week
5	$2,400	$1,800	you save $600	week
6	$2,880	$1,800	you save $1,080	week
7	$3,360	$1,800	you save $1,560	week
8	$3,840	$2,280	you save $1,560	week
9	$4,320	$2,760	you save $1,560	week
10	$4,800	$3,240	you save $1,560	week
11	$5,280	$3,600	you save $1,680	week
12	$5,760	$3,600	you save $2,160	week
13	$6,240	$3,600	you save $2,640	week
14	$6,720	$3,600	you save $3,120	week
15	$7,200	$4,080	you save $3,120	week
16	$7,680	$4,560	you save $3,120	week
17	$8,160	$5,040	you save $3,120	week
18	$8,640	$5,400	you save $3,240	week
19	$9,120	$5,400	you save $3,720	week
20	$9,600	$5,400	you save $4,200	week
21	$10,080	$5,400	you save $4,680	week
22	$10,560	$5,500	you save $5,060	28-day
23	$11,040	$5,500	you save $5,540	28-day
24	$11,520	$5,500	you save $6,020	28-day
25	$12,000	$5,500	you save $6,500	28-day
26	$12,480	$5,500	you save $6,980	28-day
27	$12,960	$5,500	you save $7,460	28-day
28	$13,440	$5,500	you save $7,940	28-day
29	$13,920	$5,980	you save $7,940	day
30	$14,400	$6,460	you save $7,940	day
31	$14,880	$6,940	you save $7,940	day
32	$15,360	$7,300	you save $8,060	week
33	$15,840	$7,300	you save $8,540	week
34	$16,320	$7,300	you save $9,020	week
35	$16,800	$7,300	you save $9,500	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 · 22 days: $5,500
Rental protection (RPP): $825
Service fee: $550
Estimated total: $6,875

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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.