When is it cheaper to rent a Kubota U35 Mini Excavator by the week than by the day?

From day 6. 6 days at the $220 day rate would be $1,320, but the weekly rate caps it at $1,100.

When is it cheaper to rent a Kubota U35 Mini Excavator on the 28-day rate?

From day 19. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $3,200 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.

Kubota U35 Mini Excavator

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Ryan Meredith · Excavators - Mini

Day: $220
Week: $1,100
28 days: $3,200

Daily stops winning on

day 6

6 days at the day rate would be $1,320. On the week rate it is $1,100.

Weekly stops winning on

day 19

19 days at the day rate would be $4,180. On the 28-day rate it is $3,200.

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 Kubota U35 Mini Excavator, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$220	$220	—	day
2	$440	$440	—	day
3	$660	$660	—	day
4	$880	$880	—	day
5	$1,100	$1,100	—	day
6	$1,320	$1,100	you save $220	week
7	$1,540	$1,100	you save $440	week
8	$1,760	$1,320	you save $440	week
9	$1,980	$1,540	you save $440	week
10	$2,200	$1,760	you save $440	week
11	$2,420	$1,980	you save $440	week
12	$2,640	$2,200	you save $440	week
13	$2,860	$2,200	you save $660	week
14	$3,080	$2,200	you save $880	week
15	$3,300	$2,420	you save $880	week
16	$3,520	$2,640	you save $880	week
17	$3,740	$2,860	you save $880	week
18	$3,960	$3,080	you save $880	week
19	$4,180	$3,200	you save $980	28-day
20	$4,400	$3,200	you save $1,200	28-day
21	$4,620	$3,200	you save $1,420	28-day
22	$4,840	$3,200	you save $1,640	28-day
23	$5,060	$3,200	you save $1,860	28-day
24	$5,280	$3,200	you save $2,080	28-day
25	$5,500	$3,200	you save $2,300	28-day
26	$5,720	$3,200	you save $2,520	28-day
27	$5,940	$3,200	you save $2,740	28-day
28	$6,160	$3,200	you save $2,960	28-day
29	$6,380	$3,420	you save $2,960	day
30	$6,600	$3,640	you save $2,960	day
31	$6,820	$3,860	you save $2,960	day
32	$7,040	$4,080	you save $2,960	day
33	$7,260	$4,300	you save $2,960	day
34	$7,480	$4,300	you save $3,180	week
35	$7,700	$4,300	you save $3,400	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.