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MistralAI-User

User fetcher

Mistral AI's fetcher for pages a person asks it to read. Seen on 30 of 135 sites in 13 weeks.

MistralAI-User reached 5 of 92 sites last week

Sites that got at least one MistralAI-User request each week, against every site reporting that week.

Reach27%18th of 2628 of 104 sitesLast 4 weeks
Requests27K1% of all crawler requests13 weeks, 30 sites
Per site33a weekMedian where it visitsLast 4 weeks

MistralAI-User reads a page when someone asks Le Chat about it.

Mistral AI says MistralAI-User follows robots.txt. A rule changes future crawls, not pages it already collected.

Block MistralAI-User
User-agent: MistralAI-User
Disallow: /
Allow MistralAI-User
User-agent: MistralAI-User
Allow: /
User agentMozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; MistralAI-User/1.0; +https://docs.mistral.ai/robots)

Is it really MistralAI-User?

Anyone can send the MistralAI-User name. Here is how to check a request that carries it.

How to check
1Match the IP to Mistral AI's listMistral AI publishes MistralAI-User's addresses at mistral.ai/mistralai-user-ips.json.
2Never count a secret-file requestA request for /.env or /.git is not a crawl, whatever name it carries.
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Common questions

What is MistralAI-User?

MistralAI-User is Mistral AI's user fetcher. Mistral user-action fetcher for Vibe responses that need a source page.

How do I block MistralAI-User?

Add a directive to your robots.txt: "User-agent: MistralAI-User" followed by "Disallow: /". Mistral AI says MistralAI-User follows robots.txt. A rule changes future crawls, not pages it already collected.

Does blocking MistralAI-User hide me from AI?

No single bot rule hides a site from every AI product. A hit usually maps to a user asking Mistral to read or cite a specific URL.