The invention relates to a guanidine tetrafluoroborate nonlinear optical crystal and a preparation method and application thereof. The chemical formula of the crystal is [C (NH2) 3] BF4, the molecular weight is 146.89, the crystal belongs to a trigonal system, the space group is R3m, and the cell parameters are as follows: a = 7.4634 (10) angstroms, b = 7.4634 (10) angstroms, c = 9.1216 (19) (6) angstroms and Z = 3. The ultraviolet cut-off edge is 200 nm, the frequency doubling response is 4-5 times that of a commercial nonlinear optical crystal KDP, and the crystal with the centimeter-level size is grown by adopting a hydrothermal method, a room-temperature solution method, an evaporation method or a solvothermal method; the invention relates to the application of the crystal for preparing harmonic light output with frequency doubled or frequency tripled or frequency quadrupled or frequency quintupled or frequency sextupled of 1064 nm fundamental frequency light outputted by an Nd: YAG laser, or generating ultraviolet and deep ultraviolet frequency doubled light output lower than 200 nm, or for preparing a frequency doubled generator, an upper or lower frequency converter or an optical parametric oscillator. The crystal has the advantages of wide light-transmitting wave band, stable physical and chemical properties, high mechanical hardness, difficulty in fragmentation and deliquescence, easiness in cutting, polishing, processing and storage and the like, and has important application in the fields of optics, laser lithography and communication.