When is it cheaper to rent a DJI Drone by the week than by the day?

From day 4. 4 days at the $40 day rate would be $160, but the weekly rate caps it at $151.

When is it cheaper to rent a DJI Drone on the 28-day rate?

From day 18. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $444 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.

DJI Drone

See the listing →

Ivan Nunez · Drones / UAV

Day: $40
Week: $151
28 days: $444

Daily stops winning on

day 4

4 days at the day rate would be $160. On the week rate it is $151.

Weekly stops winning on

day 18

18 days at the day rate would be $720. On the 28-day rate it is $444.

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 DJI Drone, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$40	$40	—	day
2	$80	$80	—	day
3	$120	$120	—	day
4	$160	$151	you save $9	week
5	$200	$151	you save $49	week
6	$240	$151	you save $89	week
7	$280	$151	you save $129	week
8	$320	$191	you save $129	week
9	$360	$231	you save $129	week
10	$400	$271	you save $129	week
11	$440	$302	you save $138	week
12	$480	$302	you save $178	week
13	$520	$302	you save $218	week
14	$560	$302	you save $258	week
15	$600	$342	you save $258	week
16	$640	$382	you save $258	week
17	$680	$422	you save $258	week
18	$720	$444	you save $276	28-day
19	$760	$444	you save $316	28-day
20	$800	$444	you save $356	28-day
21	$840	$444	you save $396	28-day
22	$880	$444	you save $436	28-day
23	$920	$444	you save $476	28-day
24	$960	$444	you save $516	28-day
25	$1,000	$444	you save $556	28-day
26	$1,040	$444	you save $596	28-day
27	$1,080	$444	you save $636	28-day
28	$1,120	$444	you save $676	28-day
29	$1,160	$484	you save $676	day
30	$1,200	$524	you save $676	day
31	$1,240	$564	you save $676	day
32	$1,280	$595	you save $685	week
33	$1,320	$595	you save $725	week
34	$1,360	$595	you save $765	week
35	$1,400	$595	you save $805	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 · 18 days: $444
Rental protection (RPP): $66.60
Service fee: $44.40
Estimated total: $555

Pick a listing

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.