An action recognition method and apparatus, and a device and a storage medium. The method comprises: performing grouping processing on original compressed video data to obtain grouped video data (101); inputting the grouped video data into a first preset model, and determining target grouped video data, which includes an action, according to an output result of the first preset model (102); decoding the target grouped video data to obtain grouped video data to be recognized (103); and inputting the grouped video data to be recognized into a second preset model, and determining, according to an output result of the second preset model, the type of the action contained in the grouped video data to be recognized (104).