Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to the communications field, and disclose a method and an apparatus for device-to-device inter-cell interference coordination. The method in the present disclosure includes: receiving, by a first terminal when the first terminal becomes a detection terminal, configuration information sent by a first base station, where the configuration information includes a resource usage detection parameter, and the resource usage detection parameter is used to configure a resource usage detection manner for the first terminal; detecting, by the first terminal based on the resource usage detection parameter, resource usage information corresponding to a resource location; reporting, by the first terminal, the resource usage information to the first base station, so that the first base station adjusts, based on the resource usage information, a D2D data transmission mode for the first terminal or a second terminal using the resource location.