# MistralAI-Index

Operator: Mistral AI
Purpose: AI search
Reviewed: 2026-09-14
HTTP identifier: MistralAI-Index
robots.txt token: MistralAI-Index

## What is MistralAI-Index?

Builds Mistral’s search index.

## How to identify it

Look for the MistralAI-Index identifier in a request’s User-Agent. This is a name match, not identity verification. Version strings may change.

## How to check identity

Compare the source IP with the current MistralAI-Index IP list linked from Mistral’s crawler documentation.

## Access and robots.txt

The operator documents robots.txt rules for this identifier.

Optional full-site opt-out; merge with existing rules only if intended. Not a security control.

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

## What it means in your analytics

Indexing makes content available for retrieval; it does not show that a response cited it.

## Useful measures

Fetched pages; Failed retrievals; Repeat fetches.

## What to check next

Keep indexing access separate from training policy and review important-page coverage.

## Sources

- [docs.mistral.ai](https://docs.mistral.ai/robots)

Operator facts are source-backed; interpretation and actions are Apostl guidance.

## Related profiles

- [MistralAI-User](https://apostl.dev/bots/mistralai-user)
- [MistralAI-Training](https://apostl.dev/bots/mistralai-training)
- [OAI-SearchBot](https://apostl.dev/bots/oai-searchbot)

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