When is it cheaper to rent a kubota KX 057-05 by the week than by the day?

From day 3. 3 days at the $400 day rate would be $1,200, but the weekly rate caps it at $1,099.

When is it cheaper to rent a kubota KX 057-05 on the 28-day rate?

From day 22. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $3,500 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.

kubota KX 057-05

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Savio Santos · Tractors - Compact

Day: $400
Week: $1,099
28 days: $3,500

Daily stops winning on

day 3

3 days at the day rate would be $1,200. On the week rate it is $1,099.

Weekly stops winning on

day 22

22 days at the day rate would be $8,800. On the 28-day rate it is $3,500.

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 kubota KX 057-05, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$400	$400	—	day
2	$800	$800	—	day
3	$1,200	$1,099	you save $101	week
4	$1,600	$1,099	you save $501	week
5	$2,000	$1,099	you save $901	week
6	$2,400	$1,099	you save $1,301	week
7	$2,800	$1,099	you save $1,701	week
8	$3,200	$1,499	you save $1,701	week
9	$3,600	$1,899	you save $1,701	week
10	$4,000	$2,198	you save $1,802	week
11	$4,400	$2,198	you save $2,202	week
12	$4,800	$2,198	you save $2,602	week
13	$5,200	$2,198	you save $3,002	week
14	$5,600	$2,198	you save $3,402	week
15	$6,000	$2,598	you save $3,402	week
16	$6,400	$2,998	you save $3,402	week
17	$6,800	$3,297	you save $3,503	week
18	$7,200	$3,297	you save $3,903	week
19	$7,600	$3,297	you save $4,303	week
20	$8,000	$3,297	you save $4,703	week
21	$8,400	$3,297	you save $5,103	week
22	$8,800	$3,500	you save $5,300	28-day
23	$9,200	$3,500	you save $5,700	28-day
24	$9,600	$3,500	you save $6,100	28-day
25	$10,000	$3,500	you save $6,500	28-day
26	$10,400	$3,500	you save $6,900	28-day
27	$10,800	$3,500	you save $7,300	28-day
28	$11,200	$3,500	you save $7,700	28-day
29	$11,600	$3,900	you save $7,700	day
30	$12,000	$4,300	you save $7,700	day
31	$12,400	$4,599	you save $7,801	week
32	$12,800	$4,599	you save $8,201	week
33	$13,200	$4,599	you save $8,601	week
34	$13,600	$4,599	you save $9,001	week
35	$14,000	$4,599	you save $9,401	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.