Websites blocking MistralAI-User
The user-agent Mistral's Le Chat assistant uses when it fetches a page to answer a user's question about it.
Operated by Mistral AI · User-request fetcher · operator documentation
3.93%
block MistralAI-User
970K of 24.68 million domains with a known robots.txt policy
0.10%
block it by name
23,540 domains, the rest inherit a blanket
* block
0.08%
restrict it by name
20,469 domains name it and close some of its paths
0.26%
name it in robots.txt
63,516 domains give it rules of their own
Data for Oct 2026. All four percentages
divide by the same 24.68 million domains. Blocked counts both
explicit User-agent: MistralAI-User blocks and blanket
* blocks the crawler inherits.
Blocking trend
2%
4%
6%
Aug 2026
Sep 2026
Oct 2026
Share of domains with a known robots.txt policy
blocking MistralAI-User in each monthly crawl. The denominator moves with each crawl and is
defined in the methodology.
Historical mentions, HTTP Archive
0.1%
0.2%
0.3%
May 2025
Sep 2025
Jan 2026
May 2026
Sep 2026
Share of sites in each month's
HTTP Archive crawl whose robots.txt named
MistralAI-User. This series counts
mentions only (the archive keeps no rule text), comes from a different population than our own
crawl above, and the two are never merged.
High-authority sites blocking MistralAI-User by name
| Domain | OPROpen Page Rank | Blocking since |
|---|---|---|
| cnn.com | 9.16/10 | Oct 2026 |
| amazon.co.jp | 9.16/10 | Sep 2026 |
| amazon.de | 9.13/10 | Oct 2026 |
| usatoday.com | 9.08/10 | Sep 2026 |
| wired.com | 9.07/10 | Oct 2026 |
| fastcompany.com | 9.00/10 | Oct 2026 |
| uol.com.br | 8.92/10 | Oct 2026 |
| newyorker.com | 8.90/10 | Oct 2026 |
| mashable.com | 8.87/10 | Sep 2026 |
| francetvinfo.fr | 8.87/10 | Aug 2026 |
| arstechnica.com | 8.84/10 | Aug 2026 |
| radiofrance.fr | 8.82/10 | Aug 2026 |
| wikihow.com | 8.81/10 | Aug 2026 |
| pcmag.com | 8.80/10 | Aug 2026 |
| welt.de | 8.78/10 | Oct 2026 |
| epfl.ch | 8.74/10 | Oct 2026 |
| rfi.fr | 8.73/10 | Aug 2026 |
| verywellmind.com | 8.72/10 | Aug 2026 |
| metro.co.uk | 8.72/10 | Aug 2026 |
| people.com | 8.70/10 | Aug 2026 |
| bild.de | 8.70/10 | Oct 2026 |
| vanityfair.com | 8.64/10 | Oct 2026 |
| francebleu.fr | 8.61/10 | Aug 2026 |
| videolan.org | 8.60/10 | Oct 2026 |
| verywellhealth.com | 8.59/10 | Aug 2026 |
| hackernoon.com | 8.58/10 | Oct 2026 |
| thespruce.com | 8.58/10 | Aug 2026 |
| franceculture.fr | 8.58/10 | Aug 2026 |
| thoughtco.com | 8.55/10 | Aug 2026 |
| france.tv | 8.54/10 | Aug 2026 |
Sites whose robots.txt names MistralAI-User (or a legacy
alias) with a full block, ranked by Open Page Rank. Sites blocking every crawler with a blanket
* rule are counted above but not listed here. Since dates start at our first
observation of the rule.