BotDB Record
MistralAI-User
Review firstMistralAI-User is an AI crawler from Mistral AI used for assistant-driven browsing, page retrieval; it appears in server logs as `MistralAI-User`.
- Operator
- Mistral AI
- Family
- Mistral AI
- Type
- Ai
- Source type
- Official
- Last checked
- 2026-05-20
User-Agent Signal
Mistral AIMistralAI-User
User-agent strings are identification signals, not proof of identity. Confirm important allow, block, or rate-limit decisions with logs, DNS or IP evidence, request behavior, or operator documentation when available.
Robots.txt Snippet
Click snippet to copyUser-agent: MistralAI-User
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Handling Guidance
DependsUse this record as bot intelligence, then verify the request source and behavior before allowing, blocking, or rate limiting.
MistralAI-User is used for assistant-driven browsing, page retrieval, and automated web access on behalf of an AI product.
Intelligence Details
BotDB fields- Operator
- Mistral AI
- Family
- Mistral AI
- Type
- Ai
- Purpose
- Ai Assistant
- Identity type
- Official Documented
- Confidence
- High
- Last verified
- 2026-04-01
- Last checked
- 2026-05-20
- Source type
- Official
- Verification
- Verify MistralAI-User by matching `MistralAI-User` to Mistral AI evidence, then checking reverse DNS, source-network ownership, signed request data, or published crawler documentation when available.
- Spoofing risk
- MistralAI-User has medium spoofing risk because the user-agent can be copied, even when the bot has strong source or documentation support.
Notes
- MistralAI-User is an AI crawler from Mistral AI used for assistant-driven browsing, page retrieval, and automated web access on behalf of an AI product.
- Its primary user-agent pattern is
MistralAI-User; related patterns includeMistral user fetcher; a representative HTTP user-agent isMozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; MistralAI-User/1.0; +https://docs.mistral.ai/robots). - MistralAI-User is verified with High confidence. The identity type is Official Documented, and the evidence basis is official operator documentation.
- MistralAI-User is marked as respecting robots.txt directives for crawler access control.
- MistralAI-User should be handled according to the site owner’s AI crawler policy, with allow, block, or rate-limit rules applied deliberately.
Evidence and Source
- Verify MistralAI-User by matching `MistralAI-User` to Mistral AI evidence, then checking reverse DNS, source-network ownership, signed request data, or published crawler documentation when available.
- MistralAI-User traffic is primarily detected by the `MistralAI-User` user-agent pattern; related patterns include `Mistral user fetcher`; a representative HTTP user-agent is `Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; MistralAI-User/1.0; +https://docs.mistral.ai/robots)`. Compare source IPs, reverse DNS, request paths, and crawl cadence with Mistral AI infrastructure before trusting the traffic.
- MistralAI-User is used for assistant-driven browsing, page retrieval, and automated web access on behalf of an AI product.
- MistralAI-User has medium spoofing risk because the user-agent can be copied, even when the bot has strong source or documentation support.
Use in Botcrawl Edge
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