The invention discloses a method for preparing high-purity torasemide and a crystal form I thereof. The method comprises the following steps of: reacting 4-chloro-3-pyridine sulfonamide and m-toluidine serving as raw materials to obtain 3-sulfamoyl-4-(3-methyl phenyl) aminopyridine, refining, and reacting with 1,1'-carbonyldimidazole and isopropamide, directly introducing isopropyl carbamyl, thus obtaining the high-purity torasemide, wherein the purity (high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC)) of the torasemide is more than 99.5 percent. The prepared torasemide has proper granularity, seed crystal is not required for crystal transformation, the torasemide can be directly transformed into the variant crystal form I, and a chemically pure torasemide variant I is obtained. The preparation method is strong in process controllability, easy and convenient to operate and high in reproducibility, and facilitates industrialized production.