The present application relates to the technical field of wireless communications, and provides a discontinuous reception (DRX) determining method and apparatus, a communication device, and a storage medium. The method comprises: sending DRX configuration information to a user equipment (UE), wherein a specified cycle value comprised in the configuration information is different from any default configurable cycle value of DRX. Thus, whether to enable a mechanism for terminating data retransmission is determined on the basis of signal state information received within a continuous period of time. Therefore, by means of the DRX determining method, when determining that the arrival time interval of any service data is different from each default configurable cycle value of DRX, a network device indicates, to the UE, a specified cycle value matching the arrival time interval of the service data, so as to perform data transmission with the UE on the basis of the specified cycle value, thereby minimizing the delay of service data transmission and improving the quality and performance of the service.