MistralAI-User
Fetches pages in real time for Mistral’s Le Chat assistant when a user’s question needs the live web.
What MistralAI-User is for
Fetches a page in real time to answer a question someone just asked.
A visit usually maps to a person asking Le Chat something that touches your page. It reads on demand rather than bulk-crawling.
Crawler guide
Evergreen identity, source, and robots.txt handling guidance.
Allow or block MistralAI-User
Honours robots.txt. Add one of these to your robots.txt.
User-agent: MistralAI-User Disallow: /
User-agent: MistralAI-User Allow: /
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Common questions
What is MistralAI-User?
MistralAI-User is an AI web crawler operated by Mistral AI. Fetches pages in real time for Mistral’s Le Chat assistant when a user’s question needs the live web.
How do I block MistralAI-User?
Add a directive to your robots.txt: "User-agent: MistralAI-User" followed by "Disallow: /". Honours robots.txt.
Does blocking MistralAI-User hide me from AI?
A visit usually maps to a person asking Le Chat something that touches your page. It reads on demand rather than bulk-crawling.
Identity and robots.txt facts come from Mistral AI's published bot documentation. Behaviour is measured from identified MistralAI-User requests in the server logs of the brands Trakkr tracks - 576K crawler visits across 84 sites, recounted as new data arrives.
Telemetry updated Feb 1, 2026.