When is it cheaper to rent a Mini Excavator DigGear 2200Lb by the week than by the day?

From day 4. 4 days at the $180 day rate would be $720, but the weekly rate caps it at $670.

When is it cheaper to rent a Mini Excavator DigGear 2200Lb on the 28-day rate?

From day 16. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $1,700 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 DigGear 2200Lb

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Nikita Kuprin · Excavators - Mini

Day: $180
Week: $670
28 days: $1,700

Daily stops winning on

day 4

4 days at the day rate would be $720. On the week rate it is $670.

Weekly stops winning on

day 16

16 days at the day rate would be $2,880. On the 28-day rate it is $1,700.

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 DigGear 2200Lb, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$180	$180	—	day
2	$360	$360	—	day
3	$540	$540	—	day
4	$720	$670	you save $50	week
5	$900	$670	you save $230	week
6	$1,080	$670	you save $410	week
7	$1,260	$670	you save $590	week
8	$1,440	$850	you save $590	week
9	$1,620	$1,030	you save $590	week
10	$1,800	$1,210	you save $590	week
11	$1,980	$1,340	you save $640	week
12	$2,160	$1,340	you save $820	week
13	$2,340	$1,340	you save $1,000	week
14	$2,520	$1,340	you save $1,180	week
15	$2,700	$1,520	you save $1,180	week
16	$2,880	$1,700	you save $1,180	28-day
17	$3,060	$1,700	you save $1,360	28-day
18	$3,240	$1,700	you save $1,540	28-day
19	$3,420	$1,700	you save $1,720	28-day
20	$3,600	$1,700	you save $1,900	28-day
21	$3,780	$1,700	you save $2,080	28-day
22	$3,960	$1,700	you save $2,260	28-day
23	$4,140	$1,700	you save $2,440	28-day
24	$4,320	$1,700	you save $2,620	28-day
25	$4,500	$1,700	you save $2,800	28-day
26	$4,680	$1,700	you save $2,980	28-day
27	$4,860	$1,700	you save $3,160	28-day
28	$5,040	$1,700	you save $3,340	28-day
29	$5,220	$1,880	you save $3,340	day
30	$5,400	$2,060	you save $3,340	day
31	$5,580	$2,240	you save $3,340	day
32	$5,760	$2,370	you save $3,390	week
33	$5,940	$2,370	you save $3,570	week
34	$6,120	$2,370	you save $3,750	week
35	$6,300	$2,370	you save $3,930	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 · 16 days: $1,700
Rental protection (RPP): $255
Service fee: $170
Estimated total: $2,125

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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.