When is it cheaper to rent a stand up paddle boards by the week than by the day?

From day 5. 5 days at the $38 day rate would be $190, but the weekly rate caps it at $188.

When is it cheaper to rent a stand up paddle boards on the 28-day rate?

From day 18. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $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.

stand up paddle boards

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Jessica Lipovsky · Stand-Up Paddleboard

Day: $38
Week: $188
28 days: $500

Daily stops winning on

day 5

5 days at the day rate would be $190. On the week rate it is $188.

Weekly stops winning on

day 18

18 days at the day rate would be $684. On the 28-day rate it is $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 stand up paddle boards, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$38	$38	—	day
2	$76	$76	—	day
3	$114	$114	—	day
4	$152	$152	—	day
5	$190	$188	you save $2	week
6	$228	$188	you save $40	week
7	$266	$188	you save $78	week
8	$304	$226	you save $78	week
9	$342	$264	you save $78	week
10	$380	$302	you save $78	week
11	$418	$340	you save $78	week
12	$456	$376	you save $80	week
13	$494	$376	you save $118	week
14	$532	$376	you save $156	week
15	$570	$414	you save $156	week
16	$608	$452	you save $156	week
17	$646	$490	you save $156	week
18	$684	$500	you save $184	28-day
19	$722	$500	you save $222	28-day
20	$760	$500	you save $260	28-day
21	$798	$500	you save $298	28-day
22	$836	$500	you save $336	28-day
23	$874	$500	you save $374	28-day
24	$912	$500	you save $412	28-day
25	$950	$500	you save $450	28-day
26	$988	$500	you save $488	28-day
27	$1,026	$500	you save $526	28-day
28	$1,064	$500	you save $564	28-day
29	$1,102	$538	you save $564	day
30	$1,140	$576	you save $564	day
31	$1,178	$614	you save $564	day
32	$1,216	$652	you save $564	day
33	$1,254	$688	you save $566	week
34	$1,292	$688	you save $604	week
35	$1,330	$688	you save $642	week

Rental rates only. Protection and the marketplace service fee are added on top — see the checkout figure below.

What checkout will quote you

Our pricing service couldn’t be reached just now, so there’s no checkout figure to show. The rate table above is unaffected — it’s the operator’s published card.

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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.