Kuldeep Paul

AI search index · Mistral AI

MistralAI-Index

Indexes web content for Mistral's search. Mistral says this content is not used for model training.

Compiled by · Updated Oct 29, 2026

4.8%of top sites fully block MistralAI-Index
276sites blocking, of 5,701 with robots.txt
44of the top 1,000 block it
Operator
Mistral AI
Purpose
AI search index
Used for
Le Chat search
Obeys robots.txt
Yes
robots.txt token
MistralAI-Index
User-agent string
Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; MistralAI-Index/1.0; +https://docs.mistral.ai/robots)
IP list
Not published
Official docs
docs.mistral.ai
Feeds
Le Chat

Block MistralAI-Index in robots.txt

User-agent: MistralAI-Index
Disallow: /

Blocking a search or user-triggered bot removes your pages from that assistant's answers. To opt out of model training only, block the operator's training crawler instead.

Well-known sites that block MistralAI-Index

lemonde.fr #700, people.com #827

Ranks from the Tranco list. Full per-site data in the robots.txt study.

Other Mistral AI bots

MistralAI-User (user-triggered fetch) · MistralAI-Training (model training)

Questions

What is MistralAI-Index?

MistralAI-Index is a ai search index bot operated by Mistral AI, used for Le Chat search. Indexes web content for Mistral's search. Mistral says this content is not used for model training.

How do I block MistralAI-Index?

Add "User-agent: MistralAI-Index" followed by "Disallow: /" to the robots.txt file at the root of each host you want to protect.

Does MistralAI-Index respect robots.txt?

Yes. Mistral AI documents that MistralAI-Index honours robots.txt directives.

How many websites block MistralAI-Index?

In a Oct 29, 2026 analysis of the top 10,000 websites by Kuldeep Paul, 4.8% of sites with a robots.txt file fully disallowed MistralAI-Index.

Analysis using this data

  1. Who blocks AI crawlers? What 10,000 robots.txt files revealPublishers block training, not answers; half of all blocklists leak; Cloudflare writes the most common AI policy.
  2. The opt-out asymmetry: you can block the small AI engines, not the big oneThe AI surfaces with the most users are the ones publishers can't refuse and can't measure.

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How to cite this data

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  1. Credit the source as “Kuldeep Paul, kuldeep.cc” wherever you use a figure, chart or table from it.
  2. Link to this page (https://kuldeep.cc/data/ai-search/crawlers/mistralai-index), not to the download file, so readers can check the source of every number.
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In running text: according to Kuldeep Paul's MistralAI-Index — AI crawler directory (kuldeep.cc). More in the methodology.

APA

Paul, K. (2026). MistralAI-Index — AI crawler directory [Data set]. kuldeep.cc. https://kuldeep.cc/data/ai-search/crawlers/mistralai-index

MLA

Paul, Kuldeep. "MistralAI-Index — AI crawler directory." kuldeep.cc, 29 October 2026, https://kuldeep.cc/data/ai-search/crawlers/mistralai-index.

Chicago

Paul, Kuldeep. 2026. "MistralAI-Index — AI crawler directory." Dataset. kuldeep.cc. Updated Oct 29, 2026. https://kuldeep.cc/data/ai-search/crawlers/mistralai-index.

BibTeX

@misc{paul2026mistralaiindex, author = {Paul, Kuldeep}, title = {MistralAI-Index — AI crawler directory}, year = {2026}, howpublished = {\url{https://kuldeep.cc/data/ai-search/crawlers/mistralai-index}}, note = {Dataset, CC BY 4.0, updated 2026-10-29} }

HTML link

<a href="https://kuldeep.cc/data/ai-search/crawlers/mistralai-index">MistralAI-Index — AI crawler directory</a> (data: Kuldeep Paul, kuldeep.cc)