Mistral AI crawlers: what each bot does
Mistral AI runs 2 bots that we document: MistralAI-User, MistralAI-Index. They have different jobs (ai user-triggered fetcher, ai search crawler), so a robots.txt rule for one does not apply to the others.
| Bot | Category | robots.txt token | Honors robots.txt? | What blocking does |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MistralAI-User | AI user-triggered fetcher | MistralAI-User | Yes, per Mistral | Per Mistral, the MistralAI-User tag governs which sites user requests from Vibe can be made to, so a block keeps those requests, and the source links that come with them, off your site. |
| MistralAI-Index | AI search crawler | MistralAI-Index | Token documented by Mistral | Your pages can drop out of Mistral search, the index Vibe uses to answer questions. Training is governed by a separate tag, MistralAI-Training. |
No request from a Mistral AI bot has been recorded on this site since 19 Oct. Bot traffic data