When is it cheaper to rent a Kubota SSV 75 by the week than by the day?

From day 6. 6 days at the $220 day rate would be $1,320, but the weekly rate caps it at $1,200.

When is it cheaper to rent a Kubota SSV 75 on the 28-day rate?

From day 26. 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 SSV 75

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Weston Blasius · Tractors - Compact

Day: $220
Week: $1,200
28 days: $4,500

Daily stops winning on

day 6

6 days at the day rate would be $1,320. On the week rate it is $1,200.

Weekly stops winning on

day 26

26 days at the day rate would be $5,720. 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 SSV 75, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$220	$220	—	day
2	$440	$440	—	day
3	$660	$660	—	day
4	$880	$880	—	day
5	$1,100	$1,100	—	day
6	$1,320	$1,200	you save $120	week
7	$1,540	$1,200	you save $340	week
8	$1,760	$1,420	you save $340	week
9	$1,980	$1,640	you save $340	week
10	$2,200	$1,860	you save $340	week
11	$2,420	$2,080	you save $340	week
12	$2,640	$2,300	you save $340	week
13	$2,860	$2,400	you save $460	week
14	$3,080	$2,400	you save $680	week
15	$3,300	$2,620	you save $680	week
16	$3,520	$2,840	you save $680	week
17	$3,740	$3,060	you save $680	week
18	$3,960	$3,280	you save $680	week
19	$4,180	$3,500	you save $680	week
20	$4,400	$3,600	you save $800	week
21	$4,620	$3,600	you save $1,020	week
22	$4,840	$3,820	you save $1,020	week
23	$5,060	$4,040	you save $1,020	week
24	$5,280	$4,260	you save $1,020	week
25	$5,500	$4,480	you save $1,020	week
26	$5,720	$4,500	you save $1,220	28-day
27	$5,940	$4,500	you save $1,440	28-day
28	$6,160	$4,500	you save $1,660	28-day
29	$6,380	$4,720	you save $1,660	day
30	$6,600	$4,940	you save $1,660	day
31	$6,820	$5,160	you save $1,660	day
32	$7,040	$5,380	you save $1,660	day
33	$7,260	$5,600	you save $1,660	day
34	$7,480	$5,700	you save $1,780	week
35	$7,700	$5,700	you save $2,000	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 · 26 days: $4,500
Rental protection (RPP): $675
Service fee: $450
Estimated total: $5,625

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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.