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# MistralAI-User

MistralAI-User is Mistral's fetches when a user asks crawler token. Blocking it costs points in the AI readiness score. 11.8% of the top 1,000 websites with a robots.txt block it.

Visits a page when a user's question in Mistral's assistant needs it, and links to the source; Mistral says it is not used for crawling the web automatically. Mistral also documents MistralAI-Index (search indexing, no training) and MistralAI-Training (training data).

## Where this comes from

- **Documented by the vendor.** Source: [docs.mistral.ai](https://docs.mistral.ai/robots) Mistral's two newer tokens are not yet in the check.
- **Honours robots.txt.**
- **Counted in the readiness score.** It can keep a site out of AI search or answers, so a block costs points.

## In the top 1,000 websites

- **11.8% block it in robots.txt** (67 of the 569 sites with a robots.txt), as of 2026-10-12.
- Method, limits and the full data: [the October 2026 study of the top 1,000 websites](https://www.crawlreadiness.com/research/ai-crawler-access-october-2026).

## What blocking it costs

A rule may not stop it: MistralAI-User fetches a page because a person asked about it, and its vendor says such fetches can bypass robots.txt. Where it does honour the rule, the assistant cannot read your page when asked. The score counts it, so a block costs points.

## The robots.txt lines

To let it in (a group that names the crawler replaces any wildcard rules for it, so this also lifts a `User-agent: *` block):

```
User-agent: MistralAI-User
Allow: /
```

To keep it out:

```
User-agent: MistralAI-User
Disallow: /
```

A rule in robots.txt is a request. Mistral says this crawler honours it. The [robots.txt generator](https://www.crawlreadiness.com/tools/robots-txt) writes a whole file with the same split: block the training crawlers, keep the search and answer crawlers.

## Does MistralAI-User get through on your site?

[Run the free check](https://www.crawlreadiness.com/): it reads your robots.txt against all 51 crawlers and tells you which ones can read you, and what to change.

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Source: https://www.crawlreadiness.com/crawlers/mistralai-user