When is it cheaper to rent a 25KW Portable Generator 5 by the week than by the day?

From day 3. 3 days at the $225 day rate would be $675, but the weekly rate caps it at $550.

When is it cheaper to rent a 25KW Portable Generator 5 on the 28-day rate?

From day 15. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $1,175 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.

25KW Portable Generator 5

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2Quip Corp - DBA RME & 2QUIP.AI · Generators - Diesel

Day: $225
Week: $550
28 days: $1,175

Daily stops winning on

day 3

3 days at the day rate would be $675. On the week rate it is $550.

Weekly stops winning on

day 15

15 days at the day rate would be $3,375. On the 28-day rate it is $1,175.

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

Rental rates only. Protection and the marketplace service fee are added on top — see the checkout figure below.

What checkout will quote you

Our pricing service couldn’t be reached just now, so there’s no checkout figure to show. The rate table above is unaffected — it’s the operator’s published card.

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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.