Renting is generally short-term, for example a day or two. If you want to go for long-term rental, choose the monthly or quarterly subscriptions. Relatively you will pay much less for long-term rental, think of it like renting a car and leasing a car. The subscriptions are completely flexible. So, you can choose to use a bike for a month or longer. Other benefits for example are that the maintenance costs are included in the subscription price, which makes it easy to budget. If you are absolutely sure you want to use a bike for very long-term and you don’t mind visiting a mechanic once a while and paying for those repairs, choose for buying a bike.