When is it cheaper to rent a Diesel Generator 12kW/15kVA - #4 by the week than by the day?

From day 3. 3 days at the $175 day rate would be $525, but the weekly rate caps it at $450.

When is it cheaper to rent a Diesel Generator 12kW/15kVA - #4 on the 28-day rate?

From day 15. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $1,075 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.

Diesel Generator 12kW/15kVA - #4

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

Day: $175
Week: $450
28 days: $1,075

Daily stops winning on

day 3

3 days at the day rate would be $525. On the week rate it is $450.

Weekly stops winning on

day 15

15 days at the day rate would be $2,625. On the 28-day rate it is $1,075.

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 Diesel Generator 12kW/15kVA - #4, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$175	$175	—	day
2	$350	$350	—	day
3	$525	$450	you save $75	week
4	$700	$450	you save $250	week
5	$875	$450	you save $425	week
6	$1,050	$450	you save $600	week
7	$1,225	$450	you save $775	week
8	$1,400	$625	you save $775	week
9	$1,575	$800	you save $775	week
10	$1,750	$900	you save $850	week
11	$1,925	$900	you save $1,025	week
12	$2,100	$900	you save $1,200	week
13	$2,275	$900	you save $1,375	week
14	$2,450	$900	you save $1,550	week
15	$2,625	$1,075	you save $1,550	28-day
16	$2,800	$1,075	you save $1,725	28-day
17	$2,975	$1,075	you save $1,900	28-day
18	$3,150	$1,075	you save $2,075	28-day
19	$3,325	$1,075	you save $2,250	28-day
20	$3,500	$1,075	you save $2,425	28-day
21	$3,675	$1,075	you save $2,600	28-day
22	$3,850	$1,075	you save $2,775	28-day
23	$4,025	$1,075	you save $2,950	28-day
24	$4,200	$1,075	you save $3,125	28-day
25	$4,375	$1,075	you save $3,300	28-day
26	$4,550	$1,075	you save $3,475	28-day
27	$4,725	$1,075	you save $3,650	28-day
28	$4,900	$1,075	you save $3,825	28-day
29	$5,075	$1,250	you save $3,825	day
30	$5,250	$1,425	you save $3,825	day
31	$5,425	$1,525	you save $3,900	week
32	$5,600	$1,525	you save $4,075	week
33	$5,775	$1,525	you save $4,250	week
34	$5,950	$1,525	you save $4,425	week
35	$6,125	$1,525	you save $4,600	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.