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title: "What is MistralAI-Index? Mistral's Bot Explained | Kitbase"
description: "Mistral crawler that builds the index behind Le Chat's web answers. How to identify and verify it, and what its traffic means for your site."
canonical: https://kitbase.dev/bot-directory/mistralai-index
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# MistralAI-Index

by Mistral

AI indexing AI UA + IP range

Builds the index an AI assistant searches when it needs to find and cite a source.

Mistral crawler that builds the index behind Le Chat's web answers.

## What it usually means

Mistral is indexing this page so it can find and cite it when answering.

## How to identify it

User-Agent tokens

`mistralai-index`

robots.txt stanza

`User-agent: MistralAI-Index`

Free tools

[Verify a MistralAI-Index request](/tools/bot-verifier?ua=mistralai-index) [Check if your site allows MistralAI-Index](/tools/ai-crawler-access-checker)

## How it's verified

Published IP-range endpoints

-   [https://mistral.ai/mistralai-index-ips.json](https://mistral.ai/mistralai-index-ips.json)

Currently loaded ranges (sample) Refreshed Sep 4, 2026

`135.225.57.92/32``20.240.192.194/32`

1 IP source configured

[Mistral's page for MistralAI-Index](https://docs.mistral.ai/robots)

## Sources

-   [Mistral crawler docs](https://docs.mistral.ai/robots)
-   [Published IP ranges](https://mistral.ai/mistralai-index-ips.json)

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## See if MistralAI-Index has visited your site

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