When is it cheaper to rent a Miva 1-Ton Mini Excavator by the week than by the day?

From day 4. 4 days at the $175 day rate would be $700, but the weekly rate caps it at $650.

When is it cheaper to rent a Miva 1-Ton Mini Excavator on the 28-day rate?

From day 22. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $2,100 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.

Miva 1-Ton Mini Excavator

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Js Equipment Rental · Excavators - Mini

Day: $175
Week: $650
28 days: $2,100

Daily stops winning on

day 4

4 days at the day rate would be $700. On the week rate it is $650.

Weekly stops winning on

day 22

22 days at the day rate would be $3,850. On the 28-day rate it is $2,100.

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 Miva 1-Ton Mini Excavator, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$175	$175	—	day
2	$350	$350	—	day
3	$525	$525	—	day
4	$700	$650	you save $50	week
5	$875	$650	you save $225	week
6	$1,050	$650	you save $400	week
7	$1,225	$650	you save $575	week
8	$1,400	$825	you save $575	week
9	$1,575	$1,000	you save $575	week
10	$1,750	$1,175	you save $575	week
11	$1,925	$1,300	you save $625	week
12	$2,100	$1,300	you save $800	week
13	$2,275	$1,300	you save $975	week
14	$2,450	$1,300	you save $1,150	week
15	$2,625	$1,475	you save $1,150	week
16	$2,800	$1,650	you save $1,150	week
17	$2,975	$1,825	you save $1,150	week
18	$3,150	$1,950	you save $1,200	week
19	$3,325	$1,950	you save $1,375	week
20	$3,500	$1,950	you save $1,550	week
21	$3,675	$1,950	you save $1,725	week
22	$3,850	$2,100	you save $1,750	28-day
23	$4,025	$2,100	you save $1,925	28-day
24	$4,200	$2,100	you save $2,100	28-day
25	$4,375	$2,100	you save $2,275	28-day
26	$4,550	$2,100	you save $2,450	28-day
27	$4,725	$2,100	you save $2,625	28-day
28	$4,900	$2,100	you save $2,800	28-day
29	$5,075	$2,275	you save $2,800	day
30	$5,250	$2,450	you save $2,800	day
31	$5,425	$2,625	you save $2,800	day
32	$5,600	$2,750	you save $2,850	week
33	$5,775	$2,750	you save $3,025	week
34	$5,950	$2,750	you save $3,200	week
35	$6,125	$2,750	you save $3,375	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 · 22 days: $2,100
Rental protection (RPP): $315
Service fee: $210
Estimated total: $2,625

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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.