When is it cheaper to rent a Kubota Tractor by the week than by the day?

From day 4. 4 days at the $150 day rate would be $600, but the weekly rate caps it at $599.

When is it cheaper to rent a Kubota Tractor on the 28-day rate?

From day 22. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $1,800 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.

Kubota Tractor

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Raphael Zimmerman · Utility Tractor

Day: $150
Week: $599
28 days: $1,800

Daily stops winning on

day 4

4 days at the day rate would be $600. On the week rate it is $599.

Weekly stops winning on

day 22

22 days at the day rate would be $3,300. On the 28-day rate it is $1,800.

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 Kubota Tractor, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$150	$150	—	day
2	$300	$300	—	day
3	$450	$450	—	day
4	$600	$599	you save $1	week
5	$750	$599	you save $151	week
6	$900	$599	you save $301	week
7	$1,050	$599	you save $451	week
8	$1,200	$749	you save $451	week
9	$1,350	$899	you save $451	week
10	$1,500	$1,049	you save $451	week
11	$1,650	$1,198	you save $452	week
12	$1,800	$1,198	you save $602	week
13	$1,950	$1,198	you save $752	week
14	$2,100	$1,198	you save $902	week
15	$2,250	$1,348	you save $902	week
16	$2,400	$1,498	you save $902	week
17	$2,550	$1,648	you save $902	week
18	$2,700	$1,797	you save $903	week
19	$2,850	$1,797	you save $1,053	week
20	$3,000	$1,797	you save $1,203	week
21	$3,150	$1,797	you save $1,353	week
22	$3,300	$1,800	you save $1,500	28-day
23	$3,450	$1,800	you save $1,650	28-day
24	$3,600	$1,800	you save $1,800	28-day
25	$3,750	$1,800	you save $1,950	28-day
26	$3,900	$1,800	you save $2,100	28-day
27	$4,050	$1,800	you save $2,250	28-day
28	$4,200	$1,800	you save $2,400	28-day
29	$4,350	$1,950	you save $2,400	day
30	$4,500	$2,100	you save $2,400	day
31	$4,650	$2,250	you save $2,400	day
32	$4,800	$2,399	you save $2,401	week
33	$4,950	$2,399	you save $2,551	week
34	$5,100	$2,399	you save $2,701	week
35	$5,250	$2,399	you save $2,851	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 · 22 days: $1,800
Rental protection (RPP): $270
Service fee: $180
Estimated total: $2,250

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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.