When is it cheaper to rent a 20ft Container with Power and Storage Options by the week than by the day?

From day 5. 5 days at the $85 day rate would be $425, but the weekly rate caps it at $400.

When is it cheaper to rent a 20ft Container with Power and Storage Options on the 28-day rate?

From day 17. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $1,020 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.

20ft Container with Power and Storage Options

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Day: $85
Week: $400
28 days: $1,020

Daily stops winning on

day 5

5 days at the day rate would be $425. On the week rate it is $400.

Weekly stops winning on

day 17

17 days at the day rate would be $1,445. On the 28-day rate it is $1,020.

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 20ft Container with Power and Storage Options, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$85	$85	—	day
2	$170	$170	—	day
3	$255	$255	—	day
4	$340	$340	—	day
5	$425	$400	you save $25	week
6	$510	$400	you save $110	week
7	$595	$400	you save $195	week
8	$680	$485	you save $195	week
9	$765	$570	you save $195	week
10	$850	$655	you save $195	week
11	$935	$740	you save $195	week
12	$1,020	$800	you save $220	week
13	$1,105	$800	you save $305	week
14	$1,190	$800	you save $390	week
15	$1,275	$885	you save $390	week
16	$1,360	$970	you save $390	week
17	$1,445	$1,020	you save $425	28-day
18	$1,530	$1,020	you save $510	28-day
19	$1,615	$1,020	you save $595	28-day
20	$1,700	$1,020	you save $680	28-day
21	$1,785	$1,020	you save $765	28-day
22	$1,870	$1,020	you save $850	28-day
23	$1,955	$1,020	you save $935	28-day
24	$2,040	$1,020	you save $1,020	28-day
25	$2,125	$1,020	you save $1,105	28-day
26	$2,210	$1,020	you save $1,190	28-day
27	$2,295	$1,020	you save $1,275	28-day
28	$2,380	$1,020	you save $1,360	28-day
29	$2,465	$1,105	you save $1,360	day
30	$2,550	$1,190	you save $1,360	day
31	$2,635	$1,275	you save $1,360	day
32	$2,720	$1,360	you save $1,360	day
33	$2,805	$1,420	you save $1,385	week
34	$2,890	$1,420	you save $1,470	week
35	$2,975	$1,420	you save $1,555	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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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.