When is it cheaper to rent a Kubota Mini Excavator by the week than by the day?

From day 5. 5 days at the $350 day rate would be $1,750, but the weekly rate caps it at $1,593.

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

From day 23. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $5,250 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 Mini Excavator

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Garrett Cox · Excavators - Mini

Day: $350
Week: $1,593
28 days: $5,250

Daily stops winning on

day 5

5 days at the day rate would be $1,750. On the week rate it is $1,593.

Weekly stops winning on

day 23

23 days at the day rate would be $8,050. On the 28-day rate it is $5,250.

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 Mini Excavator, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$350	$350	—	day
2	$700	$700	—	day
3	$1,050	$1,050	—	day
4	$1,400	$1,400	—	day
5	$1,750	$1,593	you save $157	week
6	$2,100	$1,593	you save $507	week
7	$2,450	$1,593	you save $857	week
8	$2,800	$1,943	you save $857	week
9	$3,150	$2,293	you save $857	week
10	$3,500	$2,643	you save $857	week
11	$3,850	$2,993	you save $857	week
12	$4,200	$3,186	you save $1,014	week
13	$4,550	$3,186	you save $1,364	week
14	$4,900	$3,186	you save $1,714	week
15	$5,250	$3,536	you save $1,714	week
16	$5,600	$3,886	you save $1,714	week
17	$5,950	$4,236	you save $1,714	week
18	$6,300	$4,586	you save $1,714	week
19	$6,650	$4,779	you save $1,871	week
20	$7,000	$4,779	you save $2,221	week
21	$7,350	$4,779	you save $2,571	week
22	$7,700	$5,129	you save $2,571	week
23	$8,050	$5,250	you save $2,800	28-day
24	$8,400	$5,250	you save $3,150	28-day
25	$8,750	$5,250	you save $3,500	28-day
26	$9,100	$5,250	you save $3,850	28-day
27	$9,450	$5,250	you save $4,200	28-day
28	$9,800	$5,250	you save $4,550	28-day
29	$10,150	$5,600	you save $4,550	day
30	$10,500	$5,950	you save $4,550	day
31	$10,850	$6,300	you save $4,550	day
32	$11,200	$6,650	you save $4,550	day
33	$11,550	$6,843	you save $4,707	week
34	$11,900	$6,843	you save $5,057	week
35	$12,250	$6,843	you save $5,407	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: $5,250
Rental protection (RPP): $787.50
Service fee: $525
Estimated total: $6,562.50

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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.