The invention provides a method for simultaneously determining the contents of gold, silver, platinum and palladium in low nickel matte and application, and particularly relates to the technical field of precious metal determination. The method for simultaneously determining the contents of gold, silver, platinum and palladium in low nickel matte comprises the following steps: A, sequentially adding nitric acid and sulfuric acid into the low nickel matte for dissolving to obtain a first solution; B, adding soluble chlorine salt into the first solution, filtering to obtain a first precipitate, and ashing the first precipitate to obtain a first ashing substance; C, uniformly mixing the first ashing substance with lead oxide, a flux and a reducing agent to obtain a to-be-melted substance, melting the to-be-melted substance, and cooling and separating the substance after melting to obtain a lead buckle and molten slag; D, performing soot blowing on the lead buckle to obtain combined particles, and dissolving the combined particles to obtain a solution to be measured; E, measuring the contents of gold, silver, platinum and palladium in the solution to be measured on an inductively coupled plasma emission spectrometer. The method is convenient to detect, high in sensitivity, low in detection limit and good in stability.