In this work, two hydrostable Cr-based metal organic frameworks (MOFs), MIL-101(Cr) and MIL101(Cr)-SO3H, were successfully synthesized and applied in the adsorption and separation of ionic dye fluorescein sodium (FS) and cationic dye safranine T (ST). Interestingly, MIL101(Cr) can efficiently adsorb FS dye but hardly adsorbs ST dye, and MIL-101(Cr)-SO3H exhibits the thoroughly opposite phenomenon. More importantly, the reversed adsorption with high selectivity on the two MOFs can also be attained in the mixed solutions of the dyes. Finally, a mechanism analysis indicates that this significant reversal in performance for the dyes is mainly attributed to the opposite surface charges of the two MOFs caused by SO3H groups.