The embodiment of the invention discloses a vertical handover method and apparatus in a visible light and Femto heterogeneous network. According to a bankruptcy credit distribution model in a cooperative game and a size of each parameter of each network, a weight coefficient of service providing capacity corresponding to each parameter of each network is determined, and according to a current service type of a user, by applying an analytic hierarchy process, a weight coefficient of an importance degree of each parameter for the current user is determined; and according to the weight coefficients of the service providing capacity and the weight coefficients of the importance degrees, weight coefficients of comprehensive performance of two networks are determined, the network of which the comprehensive performance has a greater weight coefficient is used as a target network, and when a network currently accessed to is not the target network, the network is handed over to the target network. The apparatus comprises a monitoring module, a calculating module, a locking module, and a decision handover module. According to the vertical handover method and apparatus in the visible light and Femto heterogeneous network, which are disclosed by the invention, continuity of data transmission is ensured, a ping-pong effect caused by frequent handover is reduced, service requests of the user are homogenized, and channel resources are reasonably distributed.