Break-even duration

Q: When is it cheaper to rent a Mahindra 1626 Tractor with Front End Loader and Box Blade by the week than by the day?

From day 4. 4 days at the $140 day rate would be $560, but the weekly rate caps it at $559.

Q: When is it cheaper to rent a Mahindra 1626 Tractor with Front End Loader and Box Blade on the 28-day rate?

From day 22. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $1,680 28-day rate, and the price stops climbing for the rest of the cycle.

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.

Mahindra 1626 Tractor with Front End Loader and Box Blade

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Day: $140
Week: $559
28 days: $1,680

Daily stops winning on

day 4

4 days at the day rate would be $560. On the week rate it is $559.

Weekly stops winning on

day 22

22 days at the day rate would be $3,080. On the 28-day rate it is $1,680.

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 Mahindra 1626 Tractor with Front End Loader and Box Blade, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$140	$140	—	day
2	$280	$280	—	day
3	$420	$420	—	day
4	$560	$559	you save $1	week
5	$700	$559	you save $141	week
6	$840	$559	you save $281	week
7	$980	$559	you save $421	week
8	$1,120	$699	you save $421	week
9	$1,260	$839	you save $421	week
10	$1,400	$979	you save $421	week
11	$1,540	$1,118	you save $422	week
12	$1,680	$1,118	you save $562	week
13	$1,820	$1,118	you save $702	week
14	$1,960	$1,118	you save $842	week
15	$2,100	$1,258	you save $842	week
16	$2,240	$1,398	you save $842	week
17	$2,380	$1,538	you save $842	week
18	$2,520	$1,677	you save $843	week
19	$2,660	$1,677	you save $983	week
20	$2,800	$1,677	you save $1,123	week
21	$2,940	$1,677	you save $1,263	week
22	$3,080	$1,680	you save $1,400	28-day
23	$3,220	$1,680	you save $1,540	28-day
24	$3,360	$1,680	you save $1,680	28-day
25	$3,500	$1,680	you save $1,820	28-day
26	$3,640	$1,680	you save $1,960	28-day
27	$3,780	$1,680	you save $2,100	28-day
28	$3,920	$1,680	you save $2,240	28-day
29	$4,060	$1,820	you save $2,240	day
30	$4,200	$1,960	you save $2,240	day
31	$4,340	$2,100	you save $2,240	day
32	$4,480	$2,239	you save $2,241	week
33	$4,620	$2,239	you save $2,381	week
34	$4,760	$2,239	you save $2,521	week
35	$4,900	$2,239	you save $2,661	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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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.