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# MistralAI-User

by Mistral

AI answers AI UA + IP range

Fetches a page when a user asks an assistant to answer with fresh web context.

User-triggered fetches when Mistral's Le Chat opens a page to answer a person.

## What it usually means

A person asked an AI assistant a question, and the assistant fetched this URL to answer with fresh context or citations.

## How to identify it

User-Agent tokens

`mistralai-user`

robots.txt stanza

`User-agent: MistralAI-User`

Free tools

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

## How it's verified

Published IP-range endpoints

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

Currently loaded ranges (sample) Refreshed Sep 4, 2026

`20.240.160.161/32``20.240.160.1/32``20.240.194.83/32``51.12.243.114/32`

1 IP source configured

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

## Sources

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

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## See if MistralAI-User has visited your site

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