When is it cheaper to rent a Compact excavator(11,300lbs) by the week than by the day?

From day 4. 4 days at the $430 day rate would be $1,720, but the weekly rate caps it at $1,450.

When is it cheaper to rent a Compact excavator(11,300lbs) on the 28-day rate?

From day 18. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $4,200 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(11,300lbs)

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garrett thorbjornson · Excavators - Mini

Day: $430
Week: $1,450
28 days: $4,200

Daily stops winning on

day 4

4 days at the day rate would be $1,720. On the week rate it is $1,450.

Weekly stops winning on

day 18

18 days at the day rate would be $7,740. On the 28-day rate it is $4,200.

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(11,300lbs), days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$430	$430	—	day
2	$860	$860	—	day
3	$1,290	$1,290	—	day
4	$1,720	$1,450	you save $270	week
5	$2,150	$1,450	you save $700	week
6	$2,580	$1,450	you save $1,130	week
7	$3,010	$1,450	you save $1,560	week
8	$3,440	$1,880	you save $1,560	week
9	$3,870	$2,310	you save $1,560	week
10	$4,300	$2,740	you save $1,560	week
11	$4,730	$2,900	you save $1,830	week
12	$5,160	$2,900	you save $2,260	week
13	$5,590	$2,900	you save $2,690	week
14	$6,020	$2,900	you save $3,120	week
15	$6,450	$3,330	you save $3,120	week
16	$6,880	$3,760	you save $3,120	week
17	$7,310	$4,190	you save $3,120	week
18	$7,740	$4,200	you save $3,540	28-day
19	$8,170	$4,200	you save $3,970	28-day
20	$8,600	$4,200	you save $4,400	28-day
21	$9,030	$4,200	you save $4,830	28-day
22	$9,460	$4,200	you save $5,260	28-day
23	$9,890	$4,200	you save $5,690	28-day
24	$10,320	$4,200	you save $6,120	28-day
25	$10,750	$4,200	you save $6,550	28-day
26	$11,180	$4,200	you save $6,980	28-day
27	$11,610	$4,200	you save $7,410	28-day
28	$12,040	$4,200	you save $7,840	28-day
29	$12,470	$4,630	you save $7,840	day
30	$12,900	$5,060	you save $7,840	day
31	$13,330	$5,490	you save $7,840	day
32	$13,760	$5,650	you save $8,110	week
33	$14,190	$5,650	you save $8,540	week
34	$14,620	$5,650	you save $8,970	week
35	$15,050	$5,650	you save $9,400	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 · 18 days: $4,200
Rental protection (RPP): $630
Service fee: $420
Estimated total: $5,250

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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.