MistralAI-Index

Indexes pages for Mistral search, which answers questions in its Vibe assistant. Mistral says the content isn't used for generative AI training of any kind.

What happens if you block it

Your pages stay out of Mistral's search index, so Vibe is less likely to find and cite them.

Our take

Allow it if you want to show up in Mistral's assistant answers.

robots.txt

To block it:

User-agent: MistralAI-Index
Disallow: /

To allow it explicitly (useful when a wider rule blocks other bots):

User-agent: MistralAI-Index
Allow: /

The operator's own words

MistralAI-Index is for automated crawling of the web for indexing purposes only. It indexes content for Mistral search, which helps answer user questions in Vibe. Content crawled by MistralAI-Index is not used for generative AI training of any kind.Mistral AI documentation, checked 2026-11-04

robots.txt allows it, but is it really getting through?

A firewall or CDN rule can reject MistralAI-Index even when robots.txt welcomes it, and nothing in your CMS shows it. Our check sends a live request as MistralAI-Index alongside a normal browser and a Googlebot control, so a bot-verification rule isn't mistaken for a block.

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