Somewhat new to prefect – after reading over the docs, I may have a bit of a naive question. It seems based on the documentation that a self-hosted prefect server (i.e., not using Prefect Cloud) doesn't use the "Hybrid Model". Is that correct?

You could still self-host a Prefect server wherever you want (for sending all of your metadata to) and manage your execution in a separate environment, again wherever you want, via workers/work pools

Ah, I see what you mean. But, as far as the API hosted with Prefect Cloud, a self-hosted server wouldn't make use of that as far as scheduling, etc.? (In essence, that would all be handled by the self-hosted version of the server?) (again, I'm new; so if this isn't making sense I apologize in advance 🤦‍♂️)

That's right, a self-hosted server wouldn't make use of the Prefect Cloud API. There are pros and cons here of course, which we try to cover on this page. Prefect Cloud has tons of collaboration/security features, events & webhooks, automations, etc. Also, it is managed for you, so you don't have to worry about your server always being up and available.

awesome; this helps a ton. Many thanks!