When is it cheaper to rent a Bobcat MT85 Mini Skid Steer by the week than by the day?

From day 4. 4 days at the $225 day rate would be $900, but the weekly rate caps it at $700.

When is it cheaper to rent a Bobcat MT85 Mini Skid Steer on the 28-day rate?

From day 18. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $2,100 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.

Bobcat MT85 Mini Skid Steer

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Alec Sanchez · Loaders - Skid Steers

Day: $225
Week: $700
28 days: $2,100

Daily stops winning on

day 4

4 days at the day rate would be $900. On the week rate it is $700.

Weekly stops winning on

day 18

18 days at the day rate would be $4,050. On the 28-day rate it is $2,100.

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 Bobcat MT85 Mini Skid Steer, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$225	$225	—	day
2	$450	$450	—	day
3	$675	$675	—	day
4	$900	$700	you save $200	week
5	$1,125	$700	you save $425	week
6	$1,350	$700	you save $650	week
7	$1,575	$700	you save $875	week
8	$1,800	$925	you save $875	week
9	$2,025	$1,150	you save $875	week
10	$2,250	$1,375	you save $875	week
11	$2,475	$1,400	you save $1,075	week
12	$2,700	$1,400	you save $1,300	week
13	$2,925	$1,400	you save $1,525	week
14	$3,150	$1,400	you save $1,750	week
15	$3,375	$1,625	you save $1,750	week
16	$3,600	$1,850	you save $1,750	week
17	$3,825	$2,075	you save $1,750	week
18	$4,050	$2,100	you save $1,950	28-day
19	$4,275	$2,100	you save $2,175	28-day
20	$4,500	$2,100	you save $2,400	28-day
21	$4,725	$2,100	you save $2,625	28-day
22	$4,950	$2,100	you save $2,850	28-day
23	$5,175	$2,100	you save $3,075	28-day
24	$5,400	$2,100	you save $3,300	28-day
25	$5,625	$2,100	you save $3,525	28-day
26	$5,850	$2,100	you save $3,750	28-day
27	$6,075	$2,100	you save $3,975	28-day
28	$6,300	$2,100	you save $4,200	28-day
29	$6,525	$2,325	you save $4,200	day
30	$6,750	$2,550	you save $4,200	day
31	$6,975	$2,775	you save $4,200	day
32	$7,200	$2,800	you save $4,400	week
33	$7,425	$2,800	you save $4,625	week
34	$7,650	$2,800	you save $4,850	week
35	$7,875	$2,800	you save $5,075	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 · 18 days: $2,100
Rental protection (RPP): $315
Service fee: $210
Estimated total: $2,625

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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.