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

From day 7. 7 days at the $175 day rate would be $1,225, but the weekly rate caps it at $1,054.

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

From day 27. 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.

AGT Mini excavator

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Rabieh Aleswed · Excavators - Mini

Day: $175
Week: $1,054
28 days: $4,200

Daily stops winning on

day 7

7 days at the day rate would be $1,225. On the week rate it is $1,054.

Weekly stops winning on

day 27

27 days at the day rate would be $4,725. 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 AGT Mini excavator, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$175	$175	—	day
2	$350	$350	—	day
3	$525	$525	—	day
4	$700	$700	—	day
5	$875	$875	—	day
6	$1,050	$1,050	—	day
7	$1,225	$1,054	you save $171	week
8	$1,400	$1,229	you save $171	week
9	$1,575	$1,404	you save $171	week
10	$1,750	$1,579	you save $171	week
11	$1,925	$1,754	you save $171	week
12	$2,100	$1,929	you save $171	week
13	$2,275	$2,104	you save $171	week
14	$2,450	$2,108	you save $342	week
15	$2,625	$2,283	you save $342	week
16	$2,800	$2,458	you save $342	week
17	$2,975	$2,633	you save $342	week
18	$3,150	$2,808	you save $342	week
19	$3,325	$2,983	you save $342	week
20	$3,500	$3,158	you save $342	week
21	$3,675	$3,162	you save $513	week
22	$3,850	$3,337	you save $513	week
23	$4,025	$3,512	you save $513	week
24	$4,200	$3,687	you save $513	week
25	$4,375	$3,862	you save $513	week
26	$4,550	$4,037	you save $513	week
27	$4,725	$4,200	you save $525	28-day
28	$4,900	$4,200	you save $700	28-day
29	$5,075	$4,375	you save $700	day
30	$5,250	$4,550	you save $700	day
31	$5,425	$4,725	you save $700	day
32	$5,600	$4,900	you save $700	day
33	$5,775	$5,075	you save $700	day
34	$5,950	$5,250	you save $700	day
35	$6,125	$5,254	you save $871	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 · 27 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.