When is it cheaper to rent a 200kW-249kW Diesel Generator Note: 24/7 Runtime by the week than by the day?

From day 3. 3 days at the $1,425 day rate would be $4,275, but the weekly rate caps it at $3,675.

When is it cheaper to rent a 200kW-249kW Diesel Generator Note: 24/7 Runtime on the 28-day rate?

From day 17. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $10,950 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.

200kW-249kW Diesel Generator Note: 24/7 Runtime

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2Quip Corp - DBA RME & 2QUIP.AI · Generators - Diesel

Day: $1,425
Week: $3,675
28 days: $10,950

Daily stops winning on

day 3

3 days at the day rate would be $4,275. On the week rate it is $3,675.

Weekly stops winning on

day 17

17 days at the day rate would be $24,225. On the 28-day rate it is $10,950.

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 200kW-249kW Diesel Generator Note: 24/7 Runtime, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$1,425	$1,425	—	day
2	$2,850	$2,850	—	day
3	$4,275	$3,675	you save $600	week
4	$5,700	$3,675	you save $2,025	week
5	$7,125	$3,675	you save $3,450	week
6	$8,550	$3,675	you save $4,875	week
7	$9,975	$3,675	you save $6,300	week
8	$11,400	$5,100	you save $6,300	week
9	$12,825	$6,525	you save $6,300	week
10	$14,250	$7,350	you save $6,900	week
11	$15,675	$7,350	you save $8,325	week
12	$17,100	$7,350	you save $9,750	week
13	$18,525	$7,350	you save $11,175	week
14	$19,950	$7,350	you save $12,600	week
15	$21,375	$8,775	you save $12,600	week
16	$22,800	$10,200	you save $12,600	week
17	$24,225	$10,950	you save $13,275	28-day
18	$25,650	$10,950	you save $14,700	28-day
19	$27,075	$10,950	you save $16,125	28-day
20	$28,500	$10,950	you save $17,550	28-day
21	$29,925	$10,950	you save $18,975	28-day
22	$31,350	$10,950	you save $20,400	28-day
23	$32,775	$10,950	you save $21,825	28-day
24	$34,200	$10,950	you save $23,250	28-day
25	$35,625	$10,950	you save $24,675	28-day
26	$37,050	$10,950	you save $26,100	28-day
27	$38,475	$10,950	you save $27,525	28-day
28	$39,900	$10,950	you save $28,950	28-day
29	$41,325	$12,375	you save $28,950	day
30	$42,750	$13,800	you save $28,950	day
31	$44,175	$14,625	you save $29,550	week
32	$45,600	$14,625	you save $30,975	week
33	$47,025	$14,625	you save $32,400	week
34	$48,450	$14,625	you save $33,825	week
35	$49,875	$14,625	you save $35,250	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 · 17 days: $10,950
Rental protection (RPP): $1,642.50
Estimated total: $12,592.50

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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.