The invention belongs to the field of circuit breakers, and discloses an intelligent circuit breaker based on an edge analysis technology and a setting method. The circuit breaker comprises a data acquisition unit, a monitoring unit and an execution unit, wherein the monitoring unit comprises a first central processing unit, a second central processing unit and a metering circuit which are integrated with an edge analysis algorithm; the data acquisition unit is connected with the metering circuit, the first central processing unit is electrically connected with the second central processing unit and the metering circuit, and the second central processing unit is connected with the execution unit. According to the invention, the first central processor integrated with the edge analysis algorithm is arranged, and the Internet of Things edge computing is integrated, so the intelligent decision performance of the circuit breaker is improved, the calculation load of an upper computer is effectively reduced, the pressure of data transmission to network bandwidth is relieved, and the data processing efficiency is improved.