When is it cheaper to rent a Compact Excavator by the week than by the day?

From day 4. 4 days at the $380 day rate would be $1,520, but the weekly rate caps it at $1,516.

When is it cheaper to rent a Compact Excavator on the 28-day rate?

From day 22. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $4,674 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.

Compact Excavator

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Christopher Jorgensen · Excavators - Mini

Day: $380
Week: $1,516
28 days: $4,674

Daily stops winning on

day 4

4 days at the day rate would be $1,520. On the week rate it is $1,516.

Weekly stops winning on

day 22

22 days at the day rate would be $8,360. On the 28-day rate it is $4,674.

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 Compact Excavator, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$380	$380	—	day
2	$760	$760	—	day
3	$1,140	$1,140	—	day
4	$1,520	$1,516	you save $4	week
5	$1,900	$1,516	you save $384	week
6	$2,280	$1,516	you save $764	week
7	$2,660	$1,516	you save $1,144	week
8	$3,040	$1,896	you save $1,144	week
9	$3,420	$2,276	you save $1,144	week
10	$3,800	$2,656	you save $1,144	week
11	$4,180	$3,032	you save $1,148	week
12	$4,560	$3,032	you save $1,528	week
13	$4,940	$3,032	you save $1,908	week
14	$5,320	$3,032	you save $2,288	week
15	$5,700	$3,412	you save $2,288	week
16	$6,080	$3,792	you save $2,288	week
17	$6,460	$4,172	you save $2,288	week
18	$6,840	$4,548	you save $2,292	week
19	$7,220	$4,548	you save $2,672	week
20	$7,600	$4,548	you save $3,052	week
21	$7,980	$4,548	you save $3,432	week
22	$8,360	$4,674	you save $3,686	28-day
23	$8,740	$4,674	you save $4,066	28-day
24	$9,120	$4,674	you save $4,446	28-day
25	$9,500	$4,674	you save $4,826	28-day
26	$9,880	$4,674	you save $5,206	28-day
27	$10,260	$4,674	you save $5,586	28-day
28	$10,640	$4,674	you save $5,966	28-day
29	$11,020	$5,054	you save $5,966	day
30	$11,400	$5,434	you save $5,966	day
31	$11,780	$5,814	you save $5,966	day
32	$12,160	$6,190	you save $5,970	week
33	$12,540	$6,190	you save $6,350	week
34	$12,920	$6,190	you save $6,730	week
35	$13,300	$6,190	you save $7,110	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.