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.

Multiquip 185 Air Compressor

See the listing →

David Sneed · Compressors - Air Compressors

Day
$85
Week
$300
28 days
$700

Daily stops winning on

day 4

4 days at the day rate would be $340. On the week rate it is $300.

Weekly stops winning on

day 16

16 days at the day rate would be $1,360. On the 28-day rate it is $700.

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 Multiquip 185 Air Compressor, days 1 to 35
DaysAt the day rateOn the ladderDifferenceRate in play
1$85$85—day
2$170$170—day
3$255$255—day
4$340$300you save $40week
5$425$300you save $125week
6$510$300you save $210week
7$595$300you save $295week
8$680$385you save $295week
9$765$470you save $295week
10$850$555you save $295week
11$935$600you save $335week
12$1,020$600you save $420week
13$1,105$600you save $505week
14$1,190$600you save $590week
15$1,275$685you save $590week
16$1,360$700you save $66028-day
17$1,445$700you save $74528-day
18$1,530$700you save $83028-day
19$1,615$700you save $91528-day
20$1,700$700you save $1,00028-day
21$1,785$700you save $1,08528-day
22$1,870$700you save $1,17028-day
23$1,955$700you save $1,25528-day
24$2,040$700you save $1,34028-day
25$2,125$700you save $1,42528-day
26$2,210$700you save $1,51028-day
27$2,295$700you save $1,59528-day
28$2,380$700you save $1,68028-day
29$2,465$785you save $1,680day
30$2,550$870you save $1,680day
31$2,635$955you save $1,680day
32$2,720$1,000you save $1,720week
33$2,805$1,000you save $1,805week
34$2,890$1,000you save $1,890week
35$2,975$1,000you save $1,975week

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.