Ohio's answer is a modest yes, and modest is worth being honest about.
Complete an approved defensive driving course and Ohio grants a 2-point credit against your point total, available once every three years. That's the whole headline. The conviction stays on your record, your insurer still sees the ticket, and two points is two points, not a clean slate. Ohio built a small, sensible tool and the course ads selling it as a record-wipe are overselling.
What two points actually buys you is distance from 12. Ohio suspends a license at 12 points in two years, and if you're a repeat customer of the state's speed enforcement, a 2-point credit is the difference between a warning letter and a suspension hearing. Drivers sitting at 2 or 4 points get almost nothing from the credit today. Drivers at 8 or 10 should take the course this week.
There's a second, quieter use for the same course, and it's the one that can actually save you money on a fresh ticket: some Ohio courts will dismiss a citation or reduce the fine if you complete a defensive driving course, and some won't. It's genuinely court-by-court. Ohio has no statewide election right like Florida's or Texas's, so the move is to call the clerk on your citation before you pay, before you enroll, and ask whether the court offers a dismissal or diversion option involving a course. If yes, that's the valuable version and the course pays for itself several times over. If no, you're back to the 2-point credit and the math above.
Cost-wise this is one of the cheaper states, $25 to $50 for the 8-hour course, against roughly $1,563 in three-year insurance exposure on a typical 10-over ticket in our data as a ceiling estimate. The course won't make that exposure disappear the way an Arizona or Florida dismissal does. Think of it as cheap insurance against the next ticket rather than a cure for this one.
Every approved online course we track is compared on the Ohio page.