When is it cheaper to rent a 6500 Watt Generator by the week than by the day?

From day 3. 3 days at the $50 day rate would be $150, but the weekly rate caps it at $100.

When is it cheaper to rent a 6500 Watt Generator on the 28-day rate?

From day 15. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $250 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.

6500 Watt Generator

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Jacob Orrico · Generators - Diesel

Day: $50
Week: $100
28 days: $250

Daily stops winning on

day 3

3 days at the day rate would be $150. On the week rate it is $100.

Weekly stops winning on

day 15

15 days at the day rate would be $750. On the 28-day rate it is $250.

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 6500 Watt Generator, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$50	$50	—	day
2	$100	$100	—	day
3	$150	$100	you save $50	week
4	$200	$100	you save $100	week
5	$250	$100	you save $150	week
6	$300	$100	you save $200	week
7	$350	$100	you save $250	week
8	$400	$150	you save $250	week
9	$450	$200	you save $250	week
10	$500	$200	you save $300	week
11	$550	$200	you save $350	week
12	$600	$200	you save $400	week
13	$650	$200	you save $450	week
14	$700	$200	you save $500	week
15	$750	$250	you save $500	28-day
16	$800	$250	you save $550	28-day
17	$850	$250	you save $600	28-day
18	$900	$250	you save $650	28-day
19	$950	$250	you save $700	28-day
20	$1,000	$250	you save $750	28-day
21	$1,050	$250	you save $800	28-day
22	$1,100	$250	you save $850	28-day
23	$1,150	$250	you save $900	28-day
24	$1,200	$250	you save $950	28-day
25	$1,250	$250	you save $1,000	28-day
26	$1,300	$250	you save $1,050	28-day
27	$1,350	$250	you save $1,100	28-day
28	$1,400	$250	you save $1,150	28-day
29	$1,450	$300	you save $1,150	day
30	$1,500	$350	you save $1,150	day
31	$1,550	$350	you save $1,200	week
32	$1,600	$350	you save $1,250	week
33	$1,650	$350	you save $1,300	week
34	$1,700	$350	you save $1,350	week
35	$1,750	$350	you save $1,400	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 · 15 days: $250
Rental protection (RPP): $37.50
Service fee: $25
Estimated total: $312.50

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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.