The invention discloses a method for determining glucose based on a paper-based electrochemical device. The method comprises the following steps that 1, filter paper serves as a detection platform of a paper-based substrate, an electrode is manually drawn with a pencil, and graphite serves as an electrode material, wherein the detection platform comprises two areas, namely a detection area and an enzyme area, each area is provided with a round hydrophilic area, and the part except the hydrophilic area is a hydrophobic area; 2, according to the principle of glucose oxidase oxidizing reaction, ferrocenecarboxylic acid serves as an electronic mediator, glucose is determined by adopting an amperometric method, and the detection platform can sensitively determine the glucose in the presence of interferent; a sample to be detected is added to the detection platform, and the actual blood sugar concentration of the sample can be detected. The paper-based electrochemical system adopted in the method is the novel electrochemical device, the electrochemical device is simple in manufacture and low in cost and can be used in lots of application fields including portable and disposable analytical equipment for clinical diagnosis, food quality control, environment monitoring and the like.