The invention provides an online soft measurement method. The method comprises the following steps: acquiring operating data as a sample sequence; building a CM-LSSVM-PLS online soft measurement predicting model to train the model; using a model prediction measured value, and dynamically updating the model if a prediction error does not meet the requirements. According to the online soft measurement method provided by the invention, the measured value can be predicted by a CM-LSSVM-PLS method, the prediction precision can be improved, and the modeling time can be reduced; furthermore, the prediction precision can be further improved by dynamically updating the model; meanwhile, the matrix inverse operation can be carried out by a simple matrix, an algorithm is relatively simple, a result can be quickly calculated, and the model can be ensured to be applicable to online monitoring requirements; in addition, the soft measurement system is driven by real-time data, the model can be continuously updated according to the real-time data, and the online soft measurement method has the advantages of being likely to acquire data, low in extra hardware investment, high in model prediction precision, strong in self-adaption and the like.