MistralAI-User: user agent, IP ranges and robots.txt
MistralAI-User fetches pages for user actions in Mistral's products. Mistral says it doesn't crawl the web automatically and isn't used to collect training data. Mistral also runs MistralAI-Index (indexing) and MistralAI-Training (training).
- Operator
- Mistral
- Type
- User request · Fetches a page live because someone asked an assistant about it
- robots.txt token
MistralAI-User- Follows robots.txt
- Yes
- Official docs
- docs.mistral.ai
MistralAI-User user agent
User agent
Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; MistralAI-User/1.0; +https://docs.mistral.ai/robots)
How to block or allow MistralAI-User in robots.txt
Mistral says robots.txt governs which sites these user requests can be made to.
Block MistralAI-User
User-agent: MistralAI-User Disallow: /
Allow MistralAI-User
User-agent: MistralAI-User Allow: /
Put the rules in /robots.txt at the root of each host. Check the result with our AI Crawler Checker, which also catches firewall and CDN blocks that robots.txt doesn't show.
Should you block MistralAI-User?
Usually allow it. To opt out of Mistral's training, disallow MistralAI-Training instead.
How to verify real MistralAI-User traffic
Check the request IP against Mistral's published MistralAI-User list.
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To check every request in your server log at once, use the free AI Bot Log Analyzer. It runs in your browser and flags requests that use a bot's name from outside its official IP list.
Frequently asked questions
What is MistralAI-User?
MistralAI-User fetches pages for user actions in Mistral's products. Mistral says it doesn't crawl the web automatically and isn't used to collect training data. Mistral also runs MistralAI-Index (indexing) and MistralAI-Training (training).
How do I block MistralAI-User?
Add "User-agent: MistralAI-User" followed by "Disallow: /" to your robots.txt. To block only part of the site, disallow those paths instead of "/". Mistral says robots.txt governs which sites these user requests can be made to.
Is a request claiming to be MistralAI-User really from Mistral?
Not necessarily: anyone can copy a user agent. Check the request IP against Mistral's published MistralAI-User list.
Checked against Mistral's documentation on 2026-11-06. Vendors change user agents and policies, so confirm in the official docs before relying on them.
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