When is it cheaper to rent a Sany SY80U Compact Excavator by the week than by the day?

From day 4. 4 days at the $680 day rate would be $2,720, but the weekly rate caps it at $2,713.

When is it cheaper to rent a Sany SY80U Compact Excavator on the 28-day rate?

From day 22. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $8,160 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.

Sany SY80U Compact Excavator

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David Bouchard · Excavators - Mini

Day: $680
Week: $2,713
28 days: $8,160

Daily stops winning on

day 4

4 days at the day rate would be $2,720. On the week rate it is $2,713.

Weekly stops winning on

day 22

22 days at the day rate would be $14,960. On the 28-day rate it is $8,160.

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 Sany SY80U Compact Excavator, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$680	$680	—	day
2	$1,360	$1,360	—	day
3	$2,040	$2,040	—	day
4	$2,720	$2,713	you save $7	week
5	$3,400	$2,713	you save $687	week
6	$4,080	$2,713	you save $1,367	week
7	$4,760	$2,713	you save $2,047	week
8	$5,440	$3,393	you save $2,047	week
9	$6,120	$4,073	you save $2,047	week
10	$6,800	$4,753	you save $2,047	week
11	$7,480	$5,426	you save $2,054	week
12	$8,160	$5,426	you save $2,734	week
13	$8,840	$5,426	you save $3,414	week
14	$9,520	$5,426	you save $4,094	week
15	$10,200	$6,106	you save $4,094	week
16	$10,880	$6,786	you save $4,094	week
17	$11,560	$7,466	you save $4,094	week
18	$12,240	$8,139	you save $4,101	week
19	$12,920	$8,139	you save $4,781	week
20	$13,600	$8,139	you save $5,461	week
21	$14,280	$8,139	you save $6,141	week
22	$14,960	$8,160	you save $6,800	28-day
23	$15,640	$8,160	you save $7,480	28-day
24	$16,320	$8,160	you save $8,160	28-day
25	$17,000	$8,160	you save $8,840	28-day
26	$17,680	$8,160	you save $9,520	28-day
27	$18,360	$8,160	you save $10,200	28-day
28	$19,040	$8,160	you save $10,880	28-day
29	$19,720	$8,840	you save $10,880	day
30	$20,400	$9,520	you save $10,880	day
31	$21,080	$10,200	you save $10,880	day
32	$21,760	$10,873	you save $10,887	week
33	$22,440	$10,873	you save $11,567	week
34	$23,120	$10,873	you save $12,247	week
35	$23,800	$10,873	you save $12,927	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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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.