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What is MistralAI-Training?

MistralAI-Training is Mistral's crawler that collects public pages to train its models.

AI trainingFollows robots.txtNo way to verify
Operator
Mistral
Purpose
AI training. Collects pages to train AI models. Blocking it does not remove you from AI answers.
robots.txt token
MistralAI-Training
Sample user agent
Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; MistralAI-Training/1.0; +https://docs.mistral.ai/robots)User agents change with versions. Match on the token, not the full string.
Follows robots.txt
Yes, according to Mistral.
How to verify
Mistral doesn't publish a way to verify it.
Last reviewed

Allow or block MistralAI-Training

Block MistralAI-Training
User-agent: MistralAI-Training
Disallow: /

Asks MistralAI-Training not to crawl any page. Well-behaved crawlers stop; it does not stop anyone who ignores robots.txt.

Allow MistralAI-Training
User-agent: MistralAI-Training
Allow: /

Lets MistralAI-Training crawl everything. You only need this if a broader rule would otherwise block it.

Should you block it?

Blocking MistralAI-Training asks Mistral not to use new crawls of your pages for training. It doesn't remove you from AI answers, and it doesn't affect MistralAI-Index.

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MistralAI-Training can't be verified

Mistral doesn't publish IP ranges, DNS names or signatures for MistralAI-Training. The user agent is the only signal, and anyone can copy it, so treat a request that claims to be MistralAI-Training as unproven.

Questions about MistralAI-Training

Is MistralAI-Training safe to allow?

MistralAI-Training reads public pages; it does not log in or submit forms. Whether to allow it is about how your content is used, not security.

How do I know a request is really MistralAI-Training?

You can't, from the request alone. Mistral doesn't publish IP ranges, DNS names or signatures for it, so the user agent is the only signal, and anyone can copy that.

How often does MistralAI-Training visit?

It depends on your site; Mistral doesn't publish a schedule. Referscope shows the real visits.

Less guessing. Clearer growth.

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