Yes, more decisively than anywhere else in the country, because Arizona is the only state where the course deletes the entire problem.
Everywhere else, some residue survives: California's fine, New York's conviction, Georgia's insurer-visible record. Arizona's diversion leaves nothing. Complete the course before the deadline and the citation is dismissed, the $231 fine is never owed, no points are assessed, and nothing is reported for insurers to price, taking the roughly $3,039 three-year exposure at ceiling off the table with it. Total avoided value runs past $3,200 on a typical ticket. Against even the top of the market, $150 tuition plus the state and court fees your jurisdiction stacks on, that's on the order of a 20x return, and at the cheaper schools it climbs well beyond. Four and a half hours is the entire time cost, the shortest course in our coverage.
The worth-it question in Arizona therefore collapses into an eligibility question. Once every 12 months, measured violation date to violation date; nothing involving serious injury; CDL only for tickets in a personal vehicle. Eligible and past those gates, the only remaining way to lose value is the calendar: the course must be complete at least 7 days before your court date, and every year Arizona drivers donate three-thousand-dollar returns to procrastination.
If you're eligible, this isn't a decision, it's a deadline. Certified schools are compared on the Arizona page, and the 7-day mechanics are on our frequency page.