MistralAI-User: Mistral's live-answer fetcher
MistralAI-User is the fetcher Mistral's assistant sends when a person asks it a question, to read the page and link it. Mistral says it isn't used for training.
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At a glance
MistralAI-User in one table
- Company
- Mistral
- What it's for
- Live answer: fetched while answering someone's question.
- robots.txt token
MistralAI-User- Full user agent
Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; MistralAI-User/1.0; +https://docs.mistral.ai/robots)- Follows robots.txt
- Not stated. Mistral's page says the user agent governs which sites these requests can reach, without saying how it reads robots.txt.
- How to verify
- Check the visitor's IP against the list Mistral publishes. A request outside it isn't MistralAI-User, whatever its user agent says. The IP list
- Source
- Mistral's documentation, read on October 12, 2026.
robots.txt
Allow MistralAI-User
Allow it. Each visit is a person asking an AI something your page helps answer, right now. Blocking it costs you that answer wherever the bot honours the rule.
User-agent: MistralAI-UserAllow: /Needed only if a wider rule blocks it: robots.txt lets every bot in by default. A bot named in its own group ignores the User-agent: * group, so repeat your private paths there as Disallow lines. A block in your CDN or firewall has to be lifted there.
A rule only changes what the bot reads next. To see whether MistralAI-User reads your pages now, and which ones, track AI crawlers on your server or see the full AI crawler list.
Questions
Frequently asked questions
From Mistral's documentation, read on October 12, 2026.
MistralAI-User is the fetcher Mistral's assistant sends when a person asks it a question, to read the page and link it. Mistral says it isn't used for training.
Mistral's page says the user agent governs which sites these requests can reach, without saying how it reads robots.txt.
Check the visitor's IP against the list Mistral publishes. A request outside it isn't MistralAI-User, whatever its user agent says.
Allow it. Each visit is a person asking an AI something your page helps answer, right now. Blocking it costs you that answer wherever the bot honours the rule.
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