Most "Jeddah equipment prices" you will find online are a Riyadh list with a margin added. Ours would be too, so we would rather tell you what we actually know.
The figures Moedatech publishes are measured from supplier quotes on real requests, and the depth of that data is in Riyadh. What we can say about the west coast is narrower, and saying it plainly is more useful to a Jeddah contractor than a confident table would be.
In short
- Our measured rows are Riyadh. Jeddah tracks them closely and Dammam runs a little higher: indicative, not measured to the same depth.
- Use the Riyadh figures as your reference point, then let the local offers correct them.
- Supply depth differs by machine, not just by city: some classes are national markets, some are local.
- Transport is the variable that actually differs between a Riyadh job and a Jeddah one.
What we can say
Jeddah is close to Riyadh; Dammam sits above both
Across the quotes we hold, Jeddah pricing tracks Riyadh closely and Dammam runs slightly higher. We publish that as a direction, not a multiplier, because the sample outside Riyadh is not deep enough to put a number on, and a multiplier is exactly the kind of invented precision this industry already has too much of.
So the Riyadh table is a usable reference
Treat these as the shape of the market you are entering, and let the offers you collect in Jeddah correct them. Every row below is measured in Riyadh:
| Machine and size | Per month in Riyadh, SAR | How often quoted |
|---|---|---|
| Crawler excavator, 20 t | 16,000-20,000 | Most quoted |
| Backhoe loader, 74-109 hp | 12,375-15,000 | Most quoted |
| All-terrain crane, 50 t | 22,000-25,000 | Most quoted |
| Forklift, 10 t | 13,000-16,125 | Most quoted |
| Wheel loader, 5 m³ | 15,000-18,000 | Often quoted |
What the Kingdom-wide counts tell you
Some machines are quoted almost entirely in one city and some attract answers from everywhere. About half the answers for a backhoe loader come from outside Riyadh, and two in three for a 100-tonne crane. The wider the national spread, the more sense it makes to look beyond your own city, and the more transport matters in the comparison.
What actually differs about sourcing in Jeddah
Distance is the real variable
Mobilisation is quoted separately and charged both ways: about 1,000 SAR for a 20-tonne excavator and 5,500 for a D8 dozer as medians. Those medians are distances as much as machines, so a machine coming to a Jeddah site from a Riyadh yard is a different offer from the same machine two districts away, whatever the monthly rate says.
Port and industrial work changes the mix
Jeddah's work profile leans differently from the capital's: port and logistics handling, industrial maintenance, coastal civil works. That shows up as demand for forklifts, boom lifts and telehandlers alongside the earthmoving fleet, and those classes trade monthly rather than daily.
The scope questions do not change
Operator, fuel, transport both ways, the off-hire date. They decide whether two offers can be compared at all, in Jeddah exactly as in Riyadh.
How to source in Jeddah
- Start from the Riyadh reference on the rental rates page, expecting local offers to sit near it rather than far from it.
- Write the request once: machine, size, dates, site access, who provides operator, fuel and transport, and duration.
- Send it beyond the yards you know. A supplier can answer a shared request without an account, so local yards that are not on the platform can still reply.
- Ask for mobilisation as a number, both ways. This is where a Jeddah offer genuinely differs from a Riyadh one.
- Check the supplier before the machine moves: commercial registration, VAT, ownership of the machine. Verification covers exactly that, and no more.
When we have enough Jeddah quotes to publish a measured table, we will publish it: with the counts next to it, like every other figure on this site.
Source: Moedatech platform data. The published ranges rest on 13,820+ supplier quotes given on the platform between April and August 2026. Figures on this page are Riyadh unless stated, in Saudi riyals, excluding VAT. A quote count in a table is the number of offers received for that one machine size in that period; it is not a measure of how many suppliers or machines are on the platform, which the company publishes separately. Operator share and mobilisation are medians across the quotes for that size, and a price range is the middle half of them, so a quarter of offers sit below it and a quarter above.
