When is it cheaper to rent a Unmanned Camera by the week than by the day?

From day 7. 7 days at the $300 day rate would be $2,100, but the weekly rate caps it at $1,932.

When is it cheaper to rent a Unmanned Camera on the 28-day rate?

From day 23. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $6,120 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.

Unmanned Camera

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Nick Fisher · Cameras

Day: $300
Week: $1,932
28 days: $6,120

Daily stops winning on

day 7

7 days at the day rate would be $2,100. On the week rate it is $1,932.

Weekly stops winning on

day 23

23 days at the day rate would be $6,900. On the 28-day rate it is $6,120.

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 Unmanned Camera, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$300	$300	—	day
2	$600	$600	—	day
3	$900	$900	—	day
4	$1,200	$1,200	—	day
5	$1,500	$1,500	—	day
6	$1,800	$1,800	—	day
7	$2,100	$1,932	you save $168	week
8	$2,400	$2,232	you save $168	week
9	$2,700	$2,532	you save $168	week
10	$3,000	$2,832	you save $168	week
11	$3,300	$3,132	you save $168	week
12	$3,600	$3,432	you save $168	week
13	$3,900	$3,732	you save $168	week
14	$4,200	$3,864	you save $336	week
15	$4,500	$4,164	you save $336	week
16	$4,800	$4,464	you save $336	week
17	$5,100	$4,764	you save $336	week
18	$5,400	$5,064	you save $336	week
19	$5,700	$5,364	you save $336	week
20	$6,000	$5,664	you save $336	week
21	$6,300	$5,796	you save $504	week
22	$6,600	$6,096	you save $504	week
23	$6,900	$6,120	you save $780	28-day
24	$7,200	$6,120	you save $1,080	28-day
25	$7,500	$6,120	you save $1,380	28-day
26	$7,800	$6,120	you save $1,680	28-day
27	$8,100	$6,120	you save $1,980	28-day
28	$8,400	$6,120	you save $2,280	28-day
29	$8,700	$6,420	you save $2,280	day
30	$9,000	$6,720	you save $2,280	day
31	$9,300	$7,020	you save $2,280	day
32	$9,600	$7,320	you save $2,280	day
33	$9,900	$7,620	you save $2,280	day
34	$10,200	$7,920	you save $2,280	day
35	$10,500	$8,052	you save $2,448	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 · 23 days: $6,120
Rental protection (RPP): $918
Service fee: $612
Estimated total: $7,650

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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.