User-triggered fetch · Mistral AI
MistralAI-User
Fetches pages when Le Chat users request live web content.
- Operator
- Mistral AI
- Purpose
- User-triggered fetch
- Used for
- Le Chat
- Obeys robots.txt
- Yes
- robots.txt token
MistralAI-User- User-agent string
Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; MistralAI-User/1.0; +https://docs.mistral.ai/robots)- IP list
- Not published
- Official docs
- docs.mistral.ai
- Feeds
- Le Chat
Block MistralAI-User in robots.txt
User-agent: MistralAI-User
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-User
amazon.com #30, amazonvideo.com #85, msn.com #92, cnn.com #195, sciencedirect.com #224, amazon.co.uk #326, amazon.de #387, amazon.co.jp #490, uol.com.br #535, wired.com #570, usatoday.com #617, dailymail.com #619, telegraph.co.uk #629, amazon.fr #632, amazon.ca #633, elpais.com #674, amazon.in #676, primevideo.com #678, lemonde.fr #700, amazon.es #714, dailymail.co.uk #717, amazon.it #735, cnet.com #737, bild.de #759
Other Mistral AI bots
MistralAI-Index (ai search index) · MistralAI-Training (model training)
Questions
What is MistralAI-User?
MistralAI-User is a user-triggered fetch bot operated by Mistral AI, used for Le Chat. Fetches pages when Le Chat users request live web content.
How do I block MistralAI-User?
Add "User-agent: MistralAI-User" followed by "Disallow: /" to the robots.txt file at the root of each host you want to protect.
Does MistralAI-User respect robots.txt?
Yes. Mistral AI documents that MistralAI-User honours robots.txt directives.
How many websites block MistralAI-User?
In a Oct 29, 2026 analysis of the top 10,000 websites by Kuldeep Paul, 7.5% of sites with a robots.txt file fully disallowed MistralAI-User.
Analysis using this data
- 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.
- 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.
How to cite this data
This dataset is free to use, including commercially, under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0. The one rule is attribution:
- Credit the source as “Kuldeep Paul, kuldeep.cc” wherever you use a figure, chart or table from it.
- Link to this page (https://kuldeep.cc/data/ai-search/crawlers/mistralai-user), not to the download file, so readers can check the source of every number.
- Include the date. These figures change; say “as of Oct 29, 2026” or link to the version you used.
- Mark changes. If you filter, recalculate or chart the data yourself, say so (“analysis based on data from…”).
- Cite the original source for single figures when you quote one reported number; it is linked in every row.
In running text: according to Kuldeep Paul's MistralAI-User — AI crawler directory (kuldeep.cc). More in the methodology.
Paul, K. (2026). MistralAI-User — AI crawler directory [Data set]. kuldeep.cc. https://kuldeep.cc/data/ai-search/crawlers/mistralai-user
Paul, Kuldeep. "MistralAI-User — AI crawler directory." kuldeep.cc, 29 October 2026, https://kuldeep.cc/data/ai-search/crawlers/mistralai-user.
Paul, Kuldeep. 2026. "MistralAI-User — AI crawler directory." Dataset. kuldeep.cc. Updated Oct 29, 2026. https://kuldeep.cc/data/ai-search/crawlers/mistralai-user.
@misc{paul2026mistralaiuser, author = {Paul, Kuldeep}, title = {MistralAI-User — AI crawler directory}, year = {2026}, howpublished = {\url{https://kuldeep.cc/data/ai-search/crawlers/mistralai-user}}, note = {Dataset, CC BY 4.0, updated 2026-10-29} }
<a href="https://kuldeep.cc/data/ai-search/crawlers/mistralai-user">MistralAI-User — AI crawler directory</a> (data: Kuldeep Paul, kuldeep.cc)