Break-even duration

Q: When is it cheaper to rent a Kobalt 6 Gallon Portable Pancake Air Compressor with 3 Tool Combo Kit by the week than by the day?

From day 7. 7 days at the $30 day rate would be $210, but the weekly rate caps it at $189.

Q: When is it cheaper to rent a Kobalt 6 Gallon Portable Pancake Air Compressor with 3 Tool Combo Kit on the 28-day rate?

From day 27. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $720 28-day rate, and the price stops climbing for the rest of the cycle.

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.

Kobalt 6 Gallon Portable Pancake Air Compressor with 3 Tool Combo Kit

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Mimi V · Compressors - Air Compressors

Day: $30
Week: $189
28 days: $720

Daily stops winning on

day 7

7 days at the day rate would be $210. On the week rate it is $189.

Weekly stops winning on

day 27

27 days at the day rate would be $810. On the 28-day rate it is $720.

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 Kobalt 6 Gallon Portable Pancake Air Compressor with 3 Tool Combo Kit, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$30	$30	—	day
2	$60	$60	—	day
3	$90	$90	—	day
4	$120	$120	—	day
5	$150	$150	—	day
6	$180	$180	—	day
7	$210	$189	you save $21	week
8	$240	$219	you save $21	week
9	$270	$249	you save $21	week
10	$300	$279	you save $21	week
11	$330	$309	you save $21	week
12	$360	$339	you save $21	week
13	$390	$369	you save $21	week
14	$420	$378	you save $42	week
15	$450	$408	you save $42	week
16	$480	$438	you save $42	week
17	$510	$468	you save $42	week
18	$540	$498	you save $42	week
19	$570	$528	you save $42	week
20	$600	$558	you save $42	week
21	$630	$567	you save $63	week
22	$660	$597	you save $63	week
23	$690	$627	you save $63	week
24	$720	$657	you save $63	week
25	$750	$687	you save $63	week
26	$780	$717	you save $63	week
27	$810	$720	you save $90	28-day
28	$840	$720	you save $120	28-day
29	$870	$750	you save $120	day
30	$900	$780	you save $120	day
31	$930	$810	you save $120	day
32	$960	$840	you save $120	day
33	$990	$870	you save $120	day
34	$1,020	$900	you save $120	day
35	$1,050	$909	you save $141	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: $720
Rental protection (RPP): $108
Service fee: $72
Estimated total: $900

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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.