When is it cheaper to rent a Bobcat MT100 by the week than by the day?

From day 6. 6 days at the $250 day rate would be $1,500, but the weekly rate caps it at $1,400.

When is it cheaper to rent a Bobcat MT100 on the 28-day rate?

From day 27. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $5,600 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.

Bobcat MT100

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Day: $250
Week: $1,400
28 days: $5,600

Daily stops winning on

day 6

6 days at the day rate would be $1,500. On the week rate it is $1,400.

Weekly stops winning on

day 27

27 days at the day rate would be $6,750. On the 28-day rate it is $5,600.

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 Bobcat MT100, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$250	$250	—	day
2	$500	$500	—	day
3	$750	$750	—	day
4	$1,000	$1,000	—	day
5	$1,250	$1,250	—	day
6	$1,500	$1,400	you save $100	week
7	$1,750	$1,400	you save $350	week
8	$2,000	$1,650	you save $350	week
9	$2,250	$1,900	you save $350	week
10	$2,500	$2,150	you save $350	week
11	$2,750	$2,400	you save $350	week
12	$3,000	$2,650	you save $350	week
13	$3,250	$2,800	you save $450	week
14	$3,500	$2,800	you save $700	week
15	$3,750	$3,050	you save $700	week
16	$4,000	$3,300	you save $700	week
17	$4,250	$3,550	you save $700	week
18	$4,500	$3,800	you save $700	week
19	$4,750	$4,050	you save $700	week
20	$5,000	$4,200	you save $800	week
21	$5,250	$4,200	you save $1,050	week
22	$5,500	$4,450	you save $1,050	week
23	$5,750	$4,700	you save $1,050	week
24	$6,000	$4,950	you save $1,050	week
25	$6,250	$5,200	you save $1,050	week
26	$6,500	$5,450	you save $1,050	week
27	$6,750	$5,600	you save $1,150	28-day
28	$7,000	$5,600	you save $1,400	28-day
29	$7,250	$5,850	you save $1,400	day
30	$7,500	$6,100	you save $1,400	day
31	$7,750	$6,350	you save $1,400	day
32	$8,000	$6,600	you save $1,400	day
33	$8,250	$6,850	you save $1,400	day
34	$8,500	$7,000	you save $1,500	week
35	$8,750	$7,000	you save $1,750	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: $5,600
Rental protection (RPP): $840
Service fee: $560
Estimated total: $7,000

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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.