Pyraclostrobin is a kind of new strobilurin fungicide. It is widely used on a variety of crops, including fruits, vegetables and cereals, to control fungal diseases such as powdery mildew, rust, web blotch, downy mildew, rice blast and so on. In this article, methods for the determination of pyraclostrobin residue were reviewed. Solid-phase extraction (SPE) with standard solid supports such as octadecyl-silica (C18), primary secondary amine (PSA) or graphitized carbon black (GCB) had been widely used in pre-treatment of samples. Recently, solid-phase microextraction (SPME) had also been for the analysis of pyraclostrobin traces using polydimethylsiloxane, divinylbenzene, polyacrylate or carboxen fibers, with excellent sensitivity. The applications of matrix solid-phase dispersion (MSPD), gel permeation chromatography (GPC) and dispersive solid phase extraction (DSPE) had been shown to improve clean-up efficiency greatly. Although traditional gas chromatography and high-performance liquid chromatography especially the latter were still widely used in analysis of samples, gas chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (GC–MS/MS) and high-performance liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (HPLC-MS/MS) had been developed rapidly and applied widely because of their excellent selectivity and sensitivity. Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays (ELISA), micellar electrokinetic capillary chromatography (MEKC) and near-infrared spectroscopy (NIR) had great application potentialities.