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MistralAI-User

MistralAI-User is the user-triggered fetch run by Mistral: Le Chat live fetch. Its operator publishes the IP ranges it crawls from (https://mistral.ai/mistralai-user-ips.json), so a request carrying the name can be checked against that list.

User-agent tokenMistralAI-User
OperatorMistral
What it doesLe Chat live fetch
Kinduser-triggered fetch
Can a request be verified?Yes — published ip feed
Verification sourcehttps://mistral.ai/mistralai-user-ips.json
In a CrawlCheck scanRead from robots.txt; a refusal is scored

Allow or block it in robots.txt

User-agent: MistralAI-User
Disallow: /
User-agent: MistralAI-User
Allow: /

Add a group that names it: "User-agent: MistralAI-User" followed by "Disallow: /". A crawler follows only the most specific group that names it, so once a group names MistralAI-User, rules under "User-agent: *" no longer apply to it; repeat in that group any Disallow lines you still want.

What blocking it changes

Yes. It is how Mistral reaches a page to answer a question at the moment a person asks, so refusing it stops that engine reading the site.

What it actually did on crawlcheck.io

Verified requests0
Requests using its name from outside its operator's ranges0
robots.txt fetched0 times
Fetches of paths robots.txt disallows0
Observed2026-08-16 to 2026-09-12

Measured on this site’s own traffic, verified against the operator’s published ranges. Every agent’s record: agent conduct.

Other agents from Mistral

See what MistralAI-User and every other named agent receive from your own site: run a free scan. The full catalogue is on AI crawlers and as JSON at /ai-crawlers.json.

Questions about MistralAI-User

QHow do I block MistralAI-User in robots.txt?
Add a group that names it: "User-agent: MistralAI-User" followed by "Disallow: /". A crawler follows only the most specific group that names it, so once a group names MistralAI-User, rules under "User-agent: *" no longer apply to it; repeat in that group any Disallow lines you still want.
QHow can I tell if a request from MistralAI-User is real?
Its operator publishes the IP ranges it crawls from (https://mistral.ai/mistralai-user-ips.json), so a request carrying the name can be checked against that list.
QDoes blocking MistralAI-User affect whether my site appears in AI answers?
Yes. It is how Mistral reaches a page to answer a question at the moment a person asks, so refusing it stops that engine reading the site.
QDoes CrawlCheck test my site as MistralAI-User?
Not as a request. CrawlCheck reads the rules your robots.txt sets for MistralAI-User and reports them. A refusal of it counts toward the grade, because it costs the site visibility.