When is it cheaper to rent a Champion 7500 watt generator by the week than by the day?

From day 7. 7 days at the $60 day rate would be $420, but the weekly rate caps it at $378.

When is it cheaper to rent a Champion 7500 watt generator on the 28-day rate?

From day 27. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $1,440 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.

Champion 7500 watt generator

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Brandon foley · Generators - Portable

Day: $60
Week: $378
28 days: $1,440

Daily stops winning on

day 7

7 days at the day rate would be $420. On the week rate it is $378.

Weekly stops winning on

day 27

27 days at the day rate would be $1,620. On the 28-day rate it is $1,440.

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 Champion 7500 watt generator, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$60	$60	—	day
2	$120	$120	—	day
3	$180	$180	—	day
4	$240	$240	—	day
5	$300	$300	—	day
6	$360	$360	—	day
7	$420	$378	you save $42	week
8	$480	$438	you save $42	week
9	$540	$498	you save $42	week
10	$600	$558	you save $42	week
11	$660	$618	you save $42	week
12	$720	$678	you save $42	week
13	$780	$738	you save $42	week
14	$840	$756	you save $84	week
15	$900	$816	you save $84	week
16	$960	$876	you save $84	week
17	$1,020	$936	you save $84	week
18	$1,080	$996	you save $84	week
19	$1,140	$1,056	you save $84	week
20	$1,200	$1,116	you save $84	week
21	$1,260	$1,134	you save $126	week
22	$1,320	$1,194	you save $126	week
23	$1,380	$1,254	you save $126	week
24	$1,440	$1,314	you save $126	week
25	$1,500	$1,374	you save $126	week
26	$1,560	$1,434	you save $126	week
27	$1,620	$1,440	you save $180	28-day
28	$1,680	$1,440	you save $240	28-day
29	$1,740	$1,500	you save $240	day
30	$1,800	$1,560	you save $240	day
31	$1,860	$1,620	you save $240	day
32	$1,920	$1,680	you save $240	day
33	$1,980	$1,740	you save $240	day
34	$2,040	$1,800	you save $240	day
35	$2,100	$1,818	you save $282	week

Rental rates only. Protection and the marketplace service fee are added on top — see the checkout figure below.

What checkout will quote you

Rental · 27 days: $1,440
Rental protection (RPP): $216
Service fee: $144
Estimated total: $1,800

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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.