When is it cheaper to rent a Compact Excavator, #2 by the week than by the day?

From day 4. 4 days at the $385 day rate would be $1,540, but the weekly rate caps it at $1,537.

When is it cheaper to rent a Compact Excavator, #2 on the 28-day rate?

From day 18. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $4,610 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.

Compact Excavator, #2

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Simon Equipment Rentals · Excavators - Mini

Day: $385
Week: $1,537
28 days: $4,610

Daily stops winning on

day 4

4 days at the day rate would be $1,540. On the week rate it is $1,537.

Weekly stops winning on

day 18

18 days at the day rate would be $6,930. On the 28-day rate it is $4,610.

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 Compact Excavator, #2, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$385	$385	—	day
2	$770	$770	—	day
3	$1,155	$1,155	—	day
4	$1,540	$1,537	you save $3	week
5	$1,925	$1,537	you save $388	week
6	$2,310	$1,537	you save $773	week
7	$2,695	$1,537	you save $1,158	week
8	$3,080	$1,922	you save $1,158	week
9	$3,465	$2,307	you save $1,158	week
10	$3,850	$2,692	you save $1,158	week
11	$4,235	$3,074	you save $1,161	week
12	$4,620	$3,074	you save $1,546	week
13	$5,005	$3,074	you save $1,931	week
14	$5,390	$3,074	you save $2,316	week
15	$5,775	$3,459	you save $2,316	week
16	$6,160	$3,844	you save $2,316	week
17	$6,545	$4,229	you save $2,316	week
18	$6,930	$4,610	you save $2,320	28-day
19	$7,315	$4,610	you save $2,705	28-day
20	$7,700	$4,610	you save $3,090	28-day
21	$8,085	$4,610	you save $3,475	28-day
22	$8,470	$4,610	you save $3,860	28-day
23	$8,855	$4,610	you save $4,245	28-day
24	$9,240	$4,610	you save $4,630	28-day
25	$9,625	$4,610	you save $5,015	28-day
26	$10,010	$4,610	you save $5,400	28-day
27	$10,395	$4,610	you save $5,785	28-day
28	$10,780	$4,610	you save $6,170	28-day
29	$11,165	$4,995	you save $6,170	day
30	$11,550	$5,380	you save $6,170	day
31	$11,935	$5,765	you save $6,170	day
32	$12,320	$6,147	you save $6,173	week
33	$12,705	$6,147	you save $6,558	week
34	$13,090	$6,147	you save $6,943	week
35	$13,475	$6,147	you save $7,328	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: $4,610
Rental protection (RPP): $691.50
Service fee: $461
Estimated total: $5,762.50

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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.