The invention discloses a multi-stage speed reducer for a vertical shaft flexible hoisting container, and belongs to the technical field of vertical shaft hoisting transportation. The multi-stage speed reducer comprises a flexible hoisting container, wherein guide rollers are arranged on the left side and the right side of the flexible hoisting container, guide rails matched with the guide rollersare arranged on the left side and the right side of a vertical shaft, and the guide rollers are arranged on the guide rails in a rolling mode; and front and rear symmetrical speed reducers are arranged on the front and rear sides of the flexible hoisting container, the plurality of speed reducers are arranged in the ascending and descending direction of the flexible hoisting container, and the braking torque of the speed reducers at the upper side is smaller than that of the speed reducers at the lower side. According to the multi-stage speed reducer for the vertical shaft flexible hoisting container, multi-stage speed reducing braking is adopted, so that tensile stress or compressive stress generated on the flexible hoisting container due to single use of upper disc braking or lower discbraking is avoided; and the multi-stage speed reducing braking force is decreased progressively from top to bottom, and the balance between the overall inertia pressure and pulling force of the flexible hoisting container is maintained so that the perpendicularity of the flexible hoisting container can still be guaranteed through the dead weight, and the container is prevented from twist deformation and getting stuck in the middle of a shaft.