MistralAI-Index
Mistral AI's AI search crawler.
- Operator
- Mistral AI
- In the user agent
MistralAI-Index- robots.txt token
MistralAI-Index- Follows robots.txt
- does not say whether it follows robots.txt
- Official documentation
- docs.mistral.ai
- Checked on
- 2026-11-11
What is MistralAI-Index?
MistralAI-Index is Mistral AI's AI search crawler. It builds the index an AI assistant searches when it answers. If it cannot read your pages, the assistant cannot cite or recommend them.
The operator's description: Crawls to build the search index behind Mistral's assistant answers; not used for training.
(docs.mistral.ai)
How do I block or allow MistralAI-Index?
With robots.txt, using the token MistralAI-Index. Mistral AI does not say whether it follows robots.txt. To block the whole site:
User-agent: MistralAI-Index
Disallow: /To allow it, use Allow instead of Disallow. Before blocking, weigh what it brings: without it, the assistant cannot find your pages to cite or recommend them.
How do I see whether MistralAI-Index visits my site?
In your server or CDN access logs, look for MistralAI-Index in the user agent. Google Analytics does not show these visits: agents do not run its JavaScript.
Anyone can copy the name in a user agent, so counting log lines is not enough. Knocklog reads your site's traffic on any host, confirms who is who, and shows how often MistralAI-Index came, which pages it read and what that brought you.
How do I know it is really MistralAI-Index?
Mistral AI publishes MistralAI-Index's IP addresses at https://mistral.ai/mistralai-index-ips.json. A visit that claims to be MistralAI-Index from outside those ranges is spoofed.
Knocklog runs this check on every visit and separates the genuine agent from impostors.
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