When is it cheaper to rent a Mini Digger Hydraulic Crawler Excavator by the week than by the day?

From day 6. 6 days at the $110.50 day rate would be $663, but the weekly rate caps it at $637.50.

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

From day 23. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $2,125 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.

Mini Digger Hydraulic Crawler Excavator

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Gerber Industries · Excavators - Mini

Day: $110.50
Week: $637.50
28 days: $2,125

Daily stops winning on

day 6

6 days at the day rate would be $663. On the week rate it is $637.50.

Weekly stops winning on

day 23

23 days at the day rate would be $2,541.50. On the 28-day rate it is $2,125.

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 Mini Digger Hydraulic Crawler Excavator, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$110.50	$110.50	—	day
2	$221	$221	—	day
3	$331.50	$331.50	—	day
4	$442	$442	—	day
5	$552.50	$552.50	—	day
6	$663	$637.50	you save $25.50	week
7	$773.50	$637.50	you save $136	week
8	$884	$748	you save $136	week
9	$994.50	$858.50	you save $136	week
10	$1,105	$969	you save $136	week
11	$1,215.50	$1,079.50	you save $136	week
12	$1,326	$1,190	you save $136	week
13	$1,436.50	$1,275	you save $161.50	week
14	$1,547	$1,275	you save $272	week
15	$1,657.50	$1,385.50	you save $272	week
16	$1,768	$1,496	you save $272	week
17	$1,878.50	$1,606.50	you save $272	week
18	$1,989	$1,717	you save $272	week
19	$2,099.50	$1,827.50	you save $272	week
20	$2,210	$1,912.50	you save $297.50	week
21	$2,320.50	$1,912.50	you save $408	week
22	$2,431	$2,023	you save $408	week
23	$2,541.50	$2,125	you save $416.50	28-day
24	$2,652	$2,125	you save $527	28-day
25	$2,762.50	$2,125	you save $637.50	28-day
26	$2,873	$2,125	you save $748	28-day
27	$2,983.50	$2,125	you save $858.50	28-day
28	$3,094	$2,125	you save $969	28-day
29	$3,204.50	$2,235.50	you save $969	day
30	$3,315	$2,346	you save $969	day
31	$3,425.50	$2,456.50	you save $969	day
32	$3,536	$2,567	you save $969	day
33	$3,646.50	$2,677.50	you save $969	day
34	$3,757	$2,762.50	you save $994.50	week
35	$3,867.50	$2,762.50	you save $1,105	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: $2,125
Rental protection (RPP): $318.75
Service fee: $212.50
Estimated total: $2,656.25

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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.