Kuldeep Paul

AI assistant · Mistral AI

Le Chat

Partner search (reported as Brave Search) plus Mistral's own MistralAI-Index crawler.

Compiled by · Updated Oct 29, 2026

Operator
Mistral AI
Launched
Feb 26, 2024
Search index
Partner search (reported as Brave Search) plus Mistral's own MistralAI-Index crawler.Sources: botmonster.com, docs.mistral.ai
Crawlers
MistralAI-Index — blocked by 4.8% of top sitesMistralAI-User — blocked by 7.5% of top sitesMistralAI-Training — blocked by 7.6% of top sites
Referrer in analytics
chat.mistral.ai
UTM tagging
None added
Ads
No.
Citations
Inline source links.
Official docs
docs.mistral.ai

What this means for visibility

Mistral says MistralAI-Index content is not used for training.

Questions

What search engine does Le Chat use?

Partner search (reported as Brave Search) plus Mistral's own MistralAI-Index crawler.

Which crawlers does Le Chat use?

Le Chat relies on MistralAI-Index, MistralAI-User, MistralAI-Training. Mistral says MistralAI-Index content is not used for training.

How do I track Le Chat traffic in analytics?

Clicks from Le Chat arrive with the referrer chat.mistral.ai. Add it to an AI channel in GA4 using a source regex.

Does Le Chat show ads?

No.

Analysis using this data

  1. 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.

Other AI engines

ChatGPT · ChatGPT Atlas · Google AI Overviews · Google AI Mode · Gemini · Perplexity · Comet · Claude · Microsoft Copilot · Meta AI · Grok · DeepSeek · You.com · Brave Search (Ask Brave) · Kagi Assistant · DuckDuckGo (Duck.ai & Search Assist) · Amazon Rufus (retired)

How to cite this data

This dataset is free to use, including commercially, under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0. The one rule is attribution:

  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/le-chat), not to the download file, so readers can check the source of every number.
  3. Include the date. These figures change; say “as of Oct 29, 2026” or link to the version you used.
  4. Mark changes. If you filter, recalculate or chart the data yourself, say so (“analysis based on data from…”).
  5. 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 Le Chat — AI search engine reference (kuldeep.cc). More in the methodology.

APA

Paul, K. (2026). Le Chat — AI search engine reference [Data set]. kuldeep.cc. https://kuldeep.cc/data/ai-search/le-chat

MLA

Paul, Kuldeep. "Le Chat — AI search engine reference." kuldeep.cc, 29 October 2026, https://kuldeep.cc/data/ai-search/le-chat.

Chicago

Paul, Kuldeep. 2026. "Le Chat — AI search engine reference." Dataset. kuldeep.cc. Updated Oct 29, 2026. https://kuldeep.cc/data/ai-search/le-chat.

BibTeX

@misc{paul2026lechat, author = {Paul, Kuldeep}, title = {Le Chat — AI search engine reference}, year = {2026}, howpublished = {\url{https://kuldeep.cc/data/ai-search/le-chat}}, note = {Dataset, CC BY 4.0, updated 2026-10-29} }

HTML link

<a href="https://kuldeep.cc/data/ai-search/le-chat">Le Chat — AI search engine reference</a> (data: Kuldeep Paul, kuldeep.cc)