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MistralAI-User

Mistral says it is not used to crawl the web automatically.
Class
User fetch
robots.txt
Not stated
Evidence
Confirmed from operator documentation
Source
Published User-Agent
Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; MistralAI-User/1.0; +https://docs.mistral.ai/robots)

Proving it is real

Check an address now.

Blocking it

robots.txt
User-agent: MistralAI-User
Disallow: /
Cloudflare custom rule expression
(http.user_agent contains "MistralAI-User")
nginx
if ($http_user_agent ~* "MistralAI-User") {
    return 403;
}

Matching a name only blocks bots that tell the truth about it. Before you do this, read what each decision costs.

Last reviewed Nov 2, 2026