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Mistral AI bots and crawlers
Mistral AI builds open and commercial language models and the Le Chat assistant.
Mistral AI bots at a glance
- Mistral AI runs 3 bots listed in this directory.
- They belong to: AI Search Crawlers, AI Training Crawlers, AI Assistant Fetchers.
- Each Mistral AI bot has its own robots.txt token, so each purpose can be allowed or blocked separately.
- Website: mistral.ai
Every Mistral AI bot
| Bot | Group | Purpose | robots.txt | For GEO |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MistralAI-Index | AI Search Crawlers | AI searchOfficial docs | Yes | Allow |
| MistralAI-Training | AI Training Crawlers | AI trainingOfficial docs | Yes | Your choice |
| MistralAI-User | AI Assistant Fetchers | AI assistantOfficial docs | Yes | Allow |
Block or allow all Mistral AI bots
The rules below name every Mistral AI token in this directory. To block training but keep AI search, delete the search and assistant tokens from the block rule.
robots.txt: block
# Block all Mistral AI bots
User-agent: MistralAI-Index
User-agent: MistralAI-Training
User-agent: MistralAI-User
Disallow: /robots.txt: allow
# Allow all Mistral AI bots
User-agent: MistralAI-Index
User-agent: MistralAI-Training
User-agent: MistralAI-User
Allow: /robots.txt: partial
# Keep all Mistral AI bots out of private areas only
User-agent: MistralAI-Index
User-agent: MistralAI-Training
User-agent: MistralAI-User
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Disallow: /cart/
Disallow: /checkout/
Disallow: /my-account/
Allow: /Nginx
# Nginx: return 403 to all Mistral AI bots
if ($http_user_agent ~* "(MistralAI\-Index|MistralAI\-Training|MistralAI\-User)") {
return 403;
}Apache
# Apache .htaccess: return 403 to all Mistral AI bots
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} (MistralAI\-Index|MistralAI\-Training|MistralAI\-User) [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]Cloudflare WAF
# Cloudflare > Security > WAF > Custom rule, action: Block
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