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

From day 3. 3 days at the $675 day rate would be $2,025, but the weekly rate caps it at $1,975.

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

From day 24. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $7,500 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.

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Benjamin lewis · Loaders - Backhoes

Day: $675
Week: $1,975
28 days: $7,500

Daily stops winning on

day 3

3 days at the day rate would be $2,025. On the week rate it is $1,975.

Weekly stops winning on

day 24

24 days at the day rate would be $16,200. On the 28-day rate it is $7,500.

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 kubota backhoe, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$675	$675	—	day
2	$1,350	$1,350	—	day
3	$2,025	$1,975	you save $50	week
4	$2,700	$1,975	you save $725	week
5	$3,375	$1,975	you save $1,400	week
6	$4,050	$1,975	you save $2,075	week
7	$4,725	$1,975	you save $2,750	week
8	$5,400	$2,650	you save $2,750	week
9	$6,075	$3,325	you save $2,750	week
10	$6,750	$3,950	you save $2,800	week
11	$7,425	$3,950	you save $3,475	week
12	$8,100	$3,950	you save $4,150	week
13	$8,775	$3,950	you save $4,825	week
14	$9,450	$3,950	you save $5,500	week
15	$10,125	$4,625	you save $5,500	week
16	$10,800	$5,300	you save $5,500	week
17	$11,475	$5,925	you save $5,550	week
18	$12,150	$5,925	you save $6,225	week
19	$12,825	$5,925	you save $6,900	week
20	$13,500	$5,925	you save $7,575	week
21	$14,175	$5,925	you save $8,250	week
22	$14,850	$6,600	you save $8,250	week
23	$15,525	$7,275	you save $8,250	week
24	$16,200	$7,500	you save $8,700	28-day
25	$16,875	$7,500	you save $9,375	28-day
26	$17,550	$7,500	you save $10,050	28-day
27	$18,225	$7,500	you save $10,725	28-day
28	$18,900	$7,500	you save $11,400	28-day
29	$19,575	$8,175	you save $11,400	day
30	$20,250	$8,850	you save $11,400	day
31	$20,925	$9,475	you save $11,450	week
32	$21,600	$9,475	you save $12,125	week
33	$22,275	$9,475	you save $12,800	week
34	$22,950	$9,475	you save $13,475	week
35	$23,625	$9,475	you save $14,150	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.