The invention discloses a preparation method of alkyl substitution diphenylmethane diisocyanate, which includes the following steps: weighing alkylaniline and urea, placing the alkylaniline and the urea in a reactor, heating the alkylaniline and the urea to the temperature ranging from 100 DEG C to 200 DEG C, stirring the mixture for 10 to 20 minutes, stopping reaction when red liquid is changed to solid, cooling the mixture to the room temperature, washing the mixture for 3 to 6 times through alcohol to obtain dialkyl group diphenyl urea, adding dimethyl carbonate into dialkyl group diphenyl urea, conducting back flowing reaction on the mixture under the temperature ranging from 110 DEG C to 250 DEG C for 6 to 12 hours, adding sodium methoxide into the mixture, conducting filtering after reaction is finished, conducting reduced pressure distillation on filtering liquid, conducting crystallization on normal hexane to obtain alkyl aniline methyl formate, adding lewis acid and methylation agent into the alkyl aniline methyl formate, increasing the temperature to the range from 70 DEG C to 100 DEG C, conducting reaction for 4 to 7 hours, cooling the mixture to the room temperature, conducting filtering on the mixture and washing the mixture through alcohol for 3 to 6 times to obtain alkyl aniline methyl formate and conducting decomposition reaction on the dialkyl group diphenylmethane dicarbamic acid ester. The preparation method of the alkyl substitution diphenylmethane diisocyanate is strong in stability, low in toxicity and controllable in reaction process.