When is it cheaper to rent a Equipter RB4000 by the week than by the day?

From day 4. 4 days at the $275 day rate would be $1,100, but the weekly rate caps it at $1,050.

When is it cheaper to rent a Equipter RB4000 on the 28-day rate?

From day 22. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $3,395 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.

Equipter RB4000

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Kent Lapp

Day: $275
Week: $1,050
28 days: $3,395

Daily stops winning on

day 4

4 days at the day rate would be $1,100. On the week rate it is $1,050.

Weekly stops winning on

day 22

22 days at the day rate would be $6,050. On the 28-day rate it is $3,395.

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 Equipter RB4000, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$275	$275	—	day
2	$550	$550	—	day
3	$825	$825	—	day
4	$1,100	$1,050	you save $50	week
5	$1,375	$1,050	you save $325	week
6	$1,650	$1,050	you save $600	week
7	$1,925	$1,050	you save $875	week
8	$2,200	$1,325	you save $875	week
9	$2,475	$1,600	you save $875	week
10	$2,750	$1,875	you save $875	week
11	$3,025	$2,100	you save $925	week
12	$3,300	$2,100	you save $1,200	week
13	$3,575	$2,100	you save $1,475	week
14	$3,850	$2,100	you save $1,750	week
15	$4,125	$2,375	you save $1,750	week
16	$4,400	$2,650	you save $1,750	week
17	$4,675	$2,925	you save $1,750	week
18	$4,950	$3,150	you save $1,800	week
19	$5,225	$3,150	you save $2,075	week
20	$5,500	$3,150	you save $2,350	week
21	$5,775	$3,150	you save $2,625	week
22	$6,050	$3,395	you save $2,655	28-day
23	$6,325	$3,395	you save $2,930	28-day
24	$6,600	$3,395	you save $3,205	28-day
25	$6,875	$3,395	you save $3,480	28-day
26	$7,150	$3,395	you save $3,755	28-day
27	$7,425	$3,395	you save $4,030	28-day
28	$7,700	$3,395	you save $4,305	28-day
29	$7,975	$3,670	you save $4,305	day
30	$8,250	$3,945	you save $4,305	day
31	$8,525	$4,220	you save $4,305	day
32	$8,800	$4,445	you save $4,355	week
33	$9,075	$4,445	you save $4,630	week
34	$9,350	$4,445	you save $4,905	week
35	$9,625	$4,445	you save $5,180	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: $3,395
Rental protection (RPP): $509.25
Service fee: $339.50
Estimated total: $4,243.75

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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.