When is it cheaper to rent a Kubota U35-4 Mini Excavator by the week than by the day?

From day 5. 5 days at the $300 day rate would be $1,500, but the weekly rate caps it at $1,470.

When is it cheaper to rent a Kubota U35-4 Mini Excavator on the 28-day rate?

From day 22. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $4,500 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 U35-4 Mini Excavator

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TJ Longsine · Excavators - Mini

Day: $300
Week: $1,470
28 days: $4,500

Daily stops winning on

day 5

5 days at the day rate would be $1,500. On the week rate it is $1,470.

Weekly stops winning on

day 22

22 days at the day rate would be $6,600. On the 28-day rate it is $4,500.

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 U35-4 Mini Excavator, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$300	$300	—	day
2	$600	$600	—	day
3	$900	$900	—	day
4	$1,200	$1,200	—	day
5	$1,500	$1,470	you save $30	week
6	$1,800	$1,470	you save $330	week
7	$2,100	$1,470	you save $630	week
8	$2,400	$1,770	you save $630	week
9	$2,700	$2,070	you save $630	week
10	$3,000	$2,370	you save $630	week
11	$3,300	$2,670	you save $630	week
12	$3,600	$2,940	you save $660	week
13	$3,900	$2,940	you save $960	week
14	$4,200	$2,940	you save $1,260	week
15	$4,500	$3,240	you save $1,260	week
16	$4,800	$3,540	you save $1,260	week
17	$5,100	$3,840	you save $1,260	week
18	$5,400	$4,140	you save $1,260	week
19	$5,700	$4,410	you save $1,290	week
20	$6,000	$4,410	you save $1,590	week
21	$6,300	$4,410	you save $1,890	week
22	$6,600	$4,500	you save $2,100	28-day
23	$6,900	$4,500	you save $2,400	28-day
24	$7,200	$4,500	you save $2,700	28-day
25	$7,500	$4,500	you save $3,000	28-day
26	$7,800	$4,500	you save $3,300	28-day
27	$8,100	$4,500	you save $3,600	28-day
28	$8,400	$4,500	you save $3,900	28-day
29	$8,700	$4,800	you save $3,900	day
30	$9,000	$5,100	you save $3,900	day
31	$9,300	$5,400	you save $3,900	day
32	$9,600	$5,700	you save $3,900	day
33	$9,900	$5,970	you save $3,930	week
34	$10,200	$5,970	you save $4,230	week
35	$10,500	$5,970	you save $4,530	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.