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

From day 3. 3 days at the $475 day rate would be $1,425, but the weekly rate caps it at $1,400.

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

From day 10. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $2,600 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 Excavator

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Francisco Medina · Excavators - Mini

Day: $475
Week: $1,400
28 days: $2,600

Daily stops winning on

day 3

3 days at the day rate would be $1,425. On the week rate it is $1,400.

Weekly stops winning on

day 10

10 days at the day rate would be $4,750. On the 28-day rate it is $2,600.

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 Excavator, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$475	$475	—	day
2	$950	$950	—	day
3	$1,425	$1,400	you save $25	week
4	$1,900	$1,400	you save $500	week
5	$2,375	$1,400	you save $975	week
6	$2,850	$1,400	you save $1,450	week
7	$3,325	$1,400	you save $1,925	week
8	$3,800	$1,875	you save $1,925	week
9	$4,275	$2,350	you save $1,925	week
10	$4,750	$2,600	you save $2,150	28-day
11	$5,225	$2,600	you save $2,625	28-day
12	$5,700	$2,600	you save $3,100	28-day
13	$6,175	$2,600	you save $3,575	28-day
14	$6,650	$2,600	you save $4,050	28-day
15	$7,125	$2,600	you save $4,525	28-day
16	$7,600	$2,600	you save $5,000	28-day
17	$8,075	$2,600	you save $5,475	28-day
18	$8,550	$2,600	you save $5,950	28-day
19	$9,025	$2,600	you save $6,425	28-day
20	$9,500	$2,600	you save $6,900	28-day
21	$9,975	$2,600	you save $7,375	28-day
22	$10,450	$2,600	you save $7,850	28-day
23	$10,925	$2,600	you save $8,325	28-day
24	$11,400	$2,600	you save $8,800	28-day
25	$11,875	$2,600	you save $9,275	28-day
26	$12,350	$2,600	you save $9,750	28-day
27	$12,825	$2,600	you save $10,225	28-day
28	$13,300	$2,600	you save $10,700	28-day
29	$13,775	$3,075	you save $10,700	day
30	$14,250	$3,550	you save $10,700	day
31	$14,725	$4,000	you save $10,725	week
32	$15,200	$4,000	you save $11,200	week
33	$15,675	$4,000	you save $11,675	week
34	$16,150	$4,000	you save $12,150	week
35	$16,625	$4,000	you save $12,625	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 · 10 days: $2,600
Rental protection (RPP): $390
Service fee: $260
Estimated total: $3,250

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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.