When is it cheaper to rent a 25KW Portable Generator by the week than by the day?

From day 7. 7 days at the $110 day rate would be $770, but the weekly rate caps it at $662.

When is it cheaper to rent a 25KW Portable Generator on the 28-day rate?

From day 20. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $1,980 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.

25KW Portable Generator

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

Day: $110
Week: $662
28 days: $1,980

Daily stops winning on

day 7

7 days at the day rate would be $770. On the week rate it is $662.

Weekly stops winning on

day 20

20 days at the day rate would be $2,200. On the 28-day rate it is $1,980.

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 25KW Portable Generator, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$110	$110	—	day
2	$220	$220	—	day
3	$330	$330	—	day
4	$440	$440	—	day
5	$550	$550	—	day
6	$660	$660	—	day
7	$770	$662	you save $108	week
8	$880	$772	you save $108	week
9	$990	$882	you save $108	week
10	$1,100	$992	you save $108	week
11	$1,210	$1,102	you save $108	week
12	$1,320	$1,212	you save $108	week
13	$1,430	$1,322	you save $108	week
14	$1,540	$1,324	you save $216	week
15	$1,650	$1,434	you save $216	week
16	$1,760	$1,544	you save $216	week
17	$1,870	$1,654	you save $216	week
18	$1,980	$1,764	you save $216	week
19	$2,090	$1,874	you save $216	week
20	$2,200	$1,980	you save $220	28-day
21	$2,310	$1,980	you save $330	28-day
22	$2,420	$1,980	you save $440	28-day
23	$2,530	$1,980	you save $550	28-day
24	$2,640	$1,980	you save $660	28-day
25	$2,750	$1,980	you save $770	28-day
26	$2,860	$1,980	you save $880	28-day
27	$2,970	$1,980	you save $990	28-day
28	$3,080	$1,980	you save $1,100	28-day
29	$3,190	$2,090	you save $1,100	day
30	$3,300	$2,200	you save $1,100	day
31	$3,410	$2,310	you save $1,100	day
32	$3,520	$2,420	you save $1,100	day
33	$3,630	$2,530	you save $1,100	day
34	$3,740	$2,640	you save $1,100	day
35	$3,850	$2,642	you save $1,208	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 · 20 days: $1,980
Rental protection (RPP): $297
Estimated total: $2,277

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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.