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Energy differences between frozen core and all electrons correlated.
MP2, MP3, MP4, B2PLYP, CCSD, and CCSD(T)

For AlCl (Aluminum monochloride)

Energies in Hartree
Methods with standard basis sets
STO-3G 3-21G 3-21G* 6-31G 6-31G* 6-31G** 6-31+G** 6-311G* 6-311G** 6-31G(2df,p) TZVP cc-pVDZ cc-pVTZ cc-pVQZ aug-cc-pVDZ aug-cc-pVTZ aug-cc-pVQZ cc-pV(T+d)Z aug-cc-pV(T+d)Z
Moller Plesset perturbation MP2=FULL -0.006910 -0.009053 -0.022389 -0.006198 -0.019378 -0.019378 -0.021269 -0.174361 -0.174361 -0.036377 -0.098580 -0.011017 -0.097529 -0.097389 -0.012897 -0.101646 -0.102884 -0.207752 -0.211844
MP3=FULL         -0.018314   -0.023049       -0.097743 -0.010008 -0.095742         -0.204870 -0.208966
MP4=FULL   -0.008589     -0.018678       -0.174930   -0.099771 -0.010294 -0.098272   -0.012203 -0.102424   -0.208779 -0.212928
B2PLYP=FULL -0.002304 -0.002861 -0.006949 -0.001953 -0.005990 -0.005990 -0.006579 -0.051215 -0.051215 -0.011132 -0.029548 -0.003441 -0.029544   -0.004021 -0.030745   -0.061794 -0.062981
Coupled Cluster CCSD=FULL         -0.018016           -0.097858 -0.009844 -0.095769 -0.094852 -0.011660 -0.099878 -0.100277 -0.204543 -0.208648
CCSD(T)=FULL         -0.018540           -0.099489 -0.010218 -0.097870 -0.096960 -0.012098 -0.102000 -0.102461 -0.207932 -0.212076
STO-3G 3-21G 3-21G* 6-31G 6-31G* 6-31G** 6-31+G** 6-311G* 6-311G** 6-31G(2df,p) TZVP cc-pVDZ cc-pVTZ cc-pVQZ aug-cc-pVDZ aug-cc-pVTZ aug-cc-pVQZ cc-pV(T+d)Z aug-cc-pV(T+d)Z