When is it cheaper to rent a Bobcat E45 Compact Mini Excavator by the week than by the day?

From day 5. 5 days at the $299 day rate would be $1,495, but the weekly rate caps it at $1,360.

When is it cheaper to rent a Bobcat E45 Compact Mini Excavator on the 28-day rate?

From day 22. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $4,126 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 E45 Compact Mini Excavator

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TG Equipment Rentals · Excavators - Mini

Day: $299
Week: $1,360
28 days: $4,126

Daily stops winning on

day 5

5 days at the day rate would be $1,495. On the week rate it is $1,360.

Weekly stops winning on

day 22

22 days at the day rate would be $6,578. On the 28-day rate it is $4,126.

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 E45 Compact Mini Excavator, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$299	$299	—	day
2	$598	$598	—	day
3	$897	$897	—	day
4	$1,196	$1,196	—	day
5	$1,495	$1,360	you save $135	week
6	$1,794	$1,360	you save $434	week
7	$2,093	$1,360	you save $733	week
8	$2,392	$1,659	you save $733	week
9	$2,691	$1,958	you save $733	week
10	$2,990	$2,257	you save $733	week
11	$3,289	$2,556	you save $733	week
12	$3,588	$2,720	you save $868	week
13	$3,887	$2,720	you save $1,167	week
14	$4,186	$2,720	you save $1,466	week
15	$4,485	$3,019	you save $1,466	week
16	$4,784	$3,318	you save $1,466	week
17	$5,083	$3,617	you save $1,466	week
18	$5,382	$3,916	you save $1,466	week
19	$5,681	$4,080	you save $1,601	week
20	$5,980	$4,080	you save $1,900	week
21	$6,279	$4,080	you save $2,199	week
22	$6,578	$4,126	you save $2,452	28-day
23	$6,877	$4,126	you save $2,751	28-day
24	$7,176	$4,126	you save $3,050	28-day
25	$7,475	$4,126	you save $3,349	28-day
26	$7,774	$4,126	you save $3,648	28-day
27	$8,073	$4,126	you save $3,947	28-day
28	$8,372	$4,126	you save $4,246	28-day
29	$8,671	$4,425	you save $4,246	day
30	$8,970	$4,724	you save $4,246	day
31	$9,269	$5,023	you save $4,246	day
32	$9,568	$5,322	you save $4,246	day
33	$9,867	$5,486	you save $4,381	week
34	$10,166	$5,486	you save $4,680	week
35	$10,465	$5,486	you save $4,979	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: $4,126
Rental protection (RPP): $618.90
Service fee: $412.60
Estimated total: $5,157.50

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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.