Hypertension is an abnormally high pressure that occurs inside the arteries. Hypertension increased by 8.3% from 2013 based on health research in 2018. Some of the factors that cause hypertension include gender, age, salt consumption, cigarette consumption, cholesterol levels and a family history of hypertension. The data in this study are data on normal and hypertensive patients at the Padangsari Health Center for the period of July – December 2021. This study will classify blood pressure with the aim of obtaining the results of the accuracy of the classification of the methods used. The method used in this study is a support vector machine (SVM). SVM is a well-known algorithm, producing optimal solutions to classification problems. SVM uses kernel functions for separable nonlinear data. The displacement kernels used in this study are linear and RBF. SVM has the disadvantage of determining the best parameters, to overcome these weaknesses developed the method of finding the best parameters. The search for the parameters of this study used grid search and genetic algorithm (GA).  Grid search has the advantage of producing parameters that are close to the optimal value, while GA has the advantage of being easy to find global optimum values. This study will compare the classification results of the SVM grid search and SVM GA methods. The results of this study obtained the method that has the best accuracy, namely SVM grid search using a radial base function (RBF) kernel with an accuracy of 89.22%.