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

From day 5. 5 days at the $180 day rate would be $900, but the weekly rate caps it at $750.

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

From day 23. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $2,500 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.

Mini Bobcat

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Daniel Franke · Excavators - Mini

Day: $180
Week: $750
28 days: $2,500

Daily stops winning on

day 5

5 days at the day rate would be $900. On the week rate it is $750.

Weekly stops winning on

day 23

23 days at the day rate would be $4,140. On the 28-day rate it is $2,500.

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 Mini Bobcat, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$180	$180	—	day
2	$360	$360	—	day
3	$540	$540	—	day
4	$720	$720	—	day
5	$900	$750	you save $150	week
6	$1,080	$750	you save $330	week
7	$1,260	$750	you save $510	week
8	$1,440	$930	you save $510	week
9	$1,620	$1,110	you save $510	week
10	$1,800	$1,290	you save $510	week
11	$1,980	$1,470	you save $510	week
12	$2,160	$1,500	you save $660	week
13	$2,340	$1,500	you save $840	week
14	$2,520	$1,500	you save $1,020	week
15	$2,700	$1,680	you save $1,020	week
16	$2,880	$1,860	you save $1,020	week
17	$3,060	$2,040	you save $1,020	week
18	$3,240	$2,220	you save $1,020	week
19	$3,420	$2,250	you save $1,170	week
20	$3,600	$2,250	you save $1,350	week
21	$3,780	$2,250	you save $1,530	week
22	$3,960	$2,430	you save $1,530	week
23	$4,140	$2,500	you save $1,640	28-day
24	$4,320	$2,500	you save $1,820	28-day
25	$4,500	$2,500	you save $2,000	28-day
26	$4,680	$2,500	you save $2,180	28-day
27	$4,860	$2,500	you save $2,360	28-day
28	$5,040	$2,500	you save $2,540	28-day
29	$5,220	$2,680	you save $2,540	day
30	$5,400	$2,860	you save $2,540	day
31	$5,580	$3,040	you save $2,540	day
32	$5,760	$3,220	you save $2,540	day
33	$5,940	$3,250	you save $2,690	week
34	$6,120	$3,250	you save $2,870	week
35	$6,300	$3,250	you save $3,050	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 · 23 days: $2,500
Rental protection (RPP): $375
Service fee: $250
Estimated total: $3,125

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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.