diff --git a/pdm.lock b/pdm.lock
index 0c7f2e733cb..9a79d12c979 100644
--- a/pdm.lock
+++ b/pdm.lock
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 groups = ["default", "all", "aws", "docs", "grpc", "grpc-channelz", "grpc-reflection", "io", "io-image", "io-pandas", "monitor-otlp", "testing", "tooling", "tracing", "tracing-jaeger", "tracing-otlp", "tracing-zipkin"]
 strategy = ["inherit_metadata"]
 lock_version = "4.5.0"
-content_hash = "sha256:506c71ed44098fe76039e45f26956970fe857731ea14ff6c5d52c63fdfe59e6b"
+content_hash = "sha256:3b07478d62b644fab7060d77e50958eb9274815bdc8d0094a7ace7d02d558916"
 
 [[metadata.targets]]
 requires_python = ">=3.9"
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 43beadff51a..5bb2ff46be9 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ dependencies = [
     "pip-requirements-parser>=31.2.0",
     "prometheus-client>=0.10.0",
     "psutil",
-    "pydantic<3",
+    "pydantic<2.10",
     "python-dateutil",
     "python-multipart",
     "python-json-logger",
diff --git a/src/bentoml/_internal/bento/bento.py b/src/bentoml/_internal/bento/bento.py
index 30f28a9fc6e..82b88091550 100644
--- a/src/bentoml/_internal/bento/bento.py
+++ b/src/bentoml/_internal/bento/bento.py
@@ -260,12 +260,7 @@ def create(
 
         BentoMLContainer.model_aliases.set(build_config.model_aliases)
         # This also verifies that svc can be imported correctly
-        svc = import_service(
-            build_config.service,
-            working_dir=build_ctx,
-            reload=reload,
-            standalone_load=True,
-        )
+        svc = import_service(build_config.service, working_dir=build_ctx, reload=reload)
         is_legacy = isinstance(svc, Service)
         # Apply default build options
         image: Image | None = None
diff --git a/tests/monitoring/task_classification/pyproject.toml b/tests/monitoring/task_classification/pyproject.toml
index 3e8939008b5..51f0f0829f4 100644
--- a/tests/monitoring/task_classification/pyproject.toml
+++ b/tests/monitoring/task_classification/pyproject.toml
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ dependencies = [
     "scikit-learn",
     "pandas",
     "bentoml[monitor-otlp]>=1.0.19",
+    "pydantic<2.10",
 ]
 
 [dependency-groups]