The invention discloses tin-antimony oxide nanoparticles with a peroxidase-like characteristic and a preparation method and an application thereof. The tin-antimony oxide nanoparticles are prepared mainly by the steps: mixing and heating tin, antimony trioxide and concentrated sulfuric acid, then successively adding hydrogen peroxide and ultrapure water, carrying out hydrothermal reaction, finally, centrifuging and separating a precipitate, washing, drying and grinding to obtain the tin-antimony oxide nanoparticles containing tin, antimony and oxygen elements. The preparation method has the advantages of sufficient sources of used raw materials, low production cost, simple material preparation process, simple operation and strong repeatability; the obtained tin-antimony oxide nanoparticleshave uniform crystal grain size, can be uniformly dispersed in an aqueous phase in the presence of triethylamine, can catalyze the oxidation of a chromogenic substrate 3,3',5,5'-tetramethylbenzidineby hydrogen peroxide, and have great potential applications in the fields of food testing, pollutant treatment and the like.