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

For Al2H6 (dialane)

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-pCVTZ
Moller Plesset perturbation MP2=FULL -0.016200 -0.009091 -0.019620 -0.006924 -0.017855 -0.019403 -0.021362 -0.248590 -0.250158 -0.032966 -0.141748 -0.012175 -0.133909 -0.121769 -0.018679 -0.147542 -0.146671 -0.622362
MP3=FULL         -0.017797   -0.021345                     -0.629176
MP4=FULL   -0.008914     -0.018292       -0.252134     -0.012199 -0.138061     -0.151964   -0.634092
B2PLYP=FULL -0.005394 -0.002995 -0.006334 -0.002262 -0.005724 -0.006183 -0.006800 -0.073508 -0.074005 -0.010406 -0.042833 -0.003928 -0.040854   -0.005967 -0.044825   -0.181191
Coupled Cluster CCSD=FULL         -0.017812           -0.143670 -0.011782 -0.135389 -0.122013 -0.018298 -0.149306 -0.146747 -0.628067
CCSD(T)=FULL         -0.018310           -0.145644 -0.012162 -0.137746 -0.124132 -0.018874 -0.151647 -0.149022 -0.633908
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-pCVTZ