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MistralAI-User

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Bot for user actions in le Chat by Mistral AI, for instance when asked to open a web page. Operated by Mistral AI.

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Assessment

AI Assistant

What is MistralAI-User?

MistralAI-User is a web crawler operated by Mistral AI. Bot for user actions in le Chat by Mistral AI, for instance when asked to open a web page.

Helpful — Verified, safe crawler. Respects robots.txt and provides operator documentation.

Identification

Bot name

MistralAI-User

Operator

Mistral AI

How we rated this bot

Verified by Cloudflare, which confirms who runs it, with no widespread reports of abuse.

Names itself honestly

Yes

Verified by Cloudflare

Yes

Says it follows robots.txt and opt-outs

Not stated

Ignores site rules

None found

Disguises itself or evades blocks

None found

Overloads sites

None found

How widely people complain

No complaint about this bot in the evidence

Reddit discussion

Discussion is neutral or practical, such as how to allow or block it

What we read

Why it crawls your site

MistralAI-User crawls websites to collect and process web content. It is operated by Mistral AI as part of their web crawling infrastructure. If you see this bot in your server logs, it is a verified crawler and generally safe.

Block or allow MistralAI-User

Block it

Add a Disallow rule for MistralAI-User in your robots.txt file. You can also block at the server level using your web server configuration or CDN firewall rules to filter requests matching the user-agent string.

# Block MistralAI-User from crawling your entire site
User-agent: MistralAI-User
Disallow: /

# Allow MistralAI-User full access
User-agent: MistralAI-User
Allow: /

Allow & verify

Ensure your robots.txt allows MistralAI-User. Verify requests are genuine by checking the user-agent string and referring to Mistral AI's documentation.