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.

Cordless drill

See the listing →

nathan weaver · Electric Tools

Day
$20
Week
$100
28 days
$200.01

Daily stops winning on

day 6

6 days at the day rate would be $120. On the week rate it is $100.

Weekly stops winning on

day 15

15 days at the day rate would be $300. On the 28-day rate it is $200.01.

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 Cordless drill, days 1 to 35
DaysAt the day rateOn the ladderDifferenceRate in play
1$20$20—day
2$40$40—day
3$60$60—day
4$80$80—day
5$100$100—day
6$120$100you save $20week
7$140$100you save $40week
8$160$120you save $40week
9$180$140you save $40week
10$200$160you save $40week
11$220$180you save $40week
12$240$200you save $40week
13$260$200you save $60week
14$280$200you save $80week
15$300$200.01you save $99.9928-day
16$320$200.01you save $119.9928-day
17$340$200.01you save $139.9928-day
18$360$200.01you save $159.9928-day
19$380$200.01you save $179.9928-day
20$400$200.01you save $199.9928-day
21$420$200.01you save $219.9928-day
22$440$200.01you save $239.9928-day
23$460$200.01you save $259.9928-day
24$480$200.01you save $279.9928-day
25$500$200.01you save $299.9928-day
26$520$200.01you save $319.9928-day
27$540$200.01you save $339.9928-day
28$560$200.01you save $359.9928-day
29$580$220.01you save $359.99day
30$600$240.01you save $359.99day
31$620$260.01you save $359.99day
32$640$280.01you save $359.99day
33$660$300.01you save $359.99day
34$680$300.01you save $379.99week
35$700$300.01you save $399.99week

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.

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.