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

From day 6. 6 days at the $205 day rate would be $1,230, but the weekly rate caps it at $1,025.

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

From day 26. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $4,100 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.

Mini Excavator

See the listing →

wassinkequipment · Excavators - Mini

Day: $205
Week: $1,025
28 days: $4,100

Daily stops winning on

day 6

6 days at the day rate would be $1,230. On the week rate it is $1,025.

Weekly stops winning on

day 26

26 days at the day rate would be $5,330. On the 28-day rate it is $4,100.

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 Mini Excavator, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$205	$205	—	day
2	$410	$410	—	day
3	$615	$615	—	day
4	$820	$820	—	day
5	$1,025	$1,025	—	day
6	$1,230	$1,025	you save $205	week
7	$1,435	$1,025	you save $410	week
8	$1,640	$1,230	you save $410	week
9	$1,845	$1,435	you save $410	week
10	$2,050	$1,640	you save $410	week
11	$2,255	$1,845	you save $410	week
12	$2,460	$2,050	you save $410	week
13	$2,665	$2,050	you save $615	week
14	$2,870	$2,050	you save $820	week
15	$3,075	$2,255	you save $820	week
16	$3,280	$2,460	you save $820	week
17	$3,485	$2,665	you save $820	week
18	$3,690	$2,870	you save $820	week
19	$3,895	$3,075	you save $820	week
20	$4,100	$3,075	you save $1,025	week
21	$4,305	$3,075	you save $1,230	week
22	$4,510	$3,280	you save $1,230	week
23	$4,715	$3,485	you save $1,230	week
24	$4,920	$3,690	you save $1,230	week
25	$5,125	$3,895	you save $1,230	week
26	$5,330	$4,100	you save $1,230	28-day
27	$5,535	$4,100	you save $1,435	28-day
28	$5,740	$4,100	you save $1,640	28-day
29	$5,945	$4,305	you save $1,640	day
30	$6,150	$4,510	you save $1,640	day
31	$6,355	$4,715	you save $1,640	day
32	$6,560	$4,920	you save $1,640	day
33	$6,765	$5,125	you save $1,640	day
34	$6,970	$5,125	you save $1,845	week
35	$7,175	$5,125	you save $2,050	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 · 26 days: $4,100
Rental protection (RPP): $615
Service fee: $410
Estimated total: $5,125

Pick a listing

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.