arm64 standard runners are now available in private repositories

Source: GitHub Actions Blog

What’s new

• Linux and Windows arm64 standard hosted runners are now supported in all repositories.
• In private repositories, these runners have two vCPUs; in public repositories, they have four vCPUs.
• These runners use an arm64 processor and images managed by Arm, LLC.

As standard GitHub‑hosted runners, they count toward the free minutes included in your plan. macOS arm64 standard runners are already available for private repositories. This update extends private‑repository arm64 support to Linux and Windows.

This is ideal for teams targeting arm64 production—such as containerized services or multi‑architecture builds—who want native performance using standard GitHub‑hosted runners in private repositories.

Get started

To start building on arm64, add one of the following supported labels to the runs-on field in your workflow:

# Example workflow snippet
runs-on: windows-11-arm   # or ubuntu-24.04-arm, ubuntu-22.04-arm

• windows-11-arm
• ubuntu-24.04-arm
• ubuntu-22.04-arm

For more details on arm64 runners and usage, see our documentation for standard GitHub‑hosted runners.

These runners are fully supported standard GitHub‑hosted runners and are suitable for production CI workloads.

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