When is it cheaper to rent a GENIE Z45 by the week than by the day?

From day 4. 4 days at the $272 day rate would be $1,088, but the weekly rate caps it at $816.

When is it cheaper to rent a GENIE Z45 on the 28-day rate?

From day 17. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $2,392 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.

GENIE Z45

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alberto Carmona · Generators - Hybrid

Day: $272
Week: $816
28 days: $2,392

Daily stops winning on

day 4

4 days at the day rate would be $1,088. On the week rate it is $816.

Weekly stops winning on

day 17

17 days at the day rate would be $4,624. On the 28-day rate it is $2,392.

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 GENIE Z45, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$272	$272	—	day
2	$544	$544	—	day
3	$816	$816	—	day
4	$1,088	$816	you save $272	week
5	$1,360	$816	you save $544	week
6	$1,632	$816	you save $816	week
7	$1,904	$816	you save $1,088	week
8	$2,176	$1,088	you save $1,088	week
9	$2,448	$1,360	you save $1,088	week
10	$2,720	$1,632	you save $1,088	week
11	$2,992	$1,632	you save $1,360	week
12	$3,264	$1,632	you save $1,632	week
13	$3,536	$1,632	you save $1,904	week
14	$3,808	$1,632	you save $2,176	week
15	$4,080	$1,904	you save $2,176	week
16	$4,352	$2,176	you save $2,176	week
17	$4,624	$2,392	you save $2,232	28-day
18	$4,896	$2,392	you save $2,504	28-day
19	$5,168	$2,392	you save $2,776	28-day
20	$5,440	$2,392	you save $3,048	28-day
21	$5,712	$2,392	you save $3,320	28-day
22	$5,984	$2,392	you save $3,592	28-day
23	$6,256	$2,392	you save $3,864	28-day
24	$6,528	$2,392	you save $4,136	28-day
25	$6,800	$2,392	you save $4,408	28-day
26	$7,072	$2,392	you save $4,680	28-day
27	$7,344	$2,392	you save $4,952	28-day
28	$7,616	$2,392	you save $5,224	28-day
29	$7,888	$2,664	you save $5,224	day
30	$8,160	$2,936	you save $5,224	day
31	$8,432	$3,208	you save $5,224	day
32	$8,704	$3,208	you save $5,496	week
33	$8,976	$3,208	you save $5,768	week
34	$9,248	$3,208	you save $6,040	week
35	$9,520	$3,208	you save $6,312	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.