Systems and methods are provided for servicing inference request by one of multiple machine learning models attached to a deployment cluster. The API server of a deployment cluster is not tightly coupled to any of multiple machine learning models attached to the deployment cluster. Upon receiving an inference request, the deployment cluster can retrieve the configuration parameters, including serialization formatting, for a target model identified in the inference request. The deployment cluster can utilize the retrieved parameters to service the inference request and return the results to a business system application.