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

For CO2+ (Carbon dioxide cation)

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
Moller Plesset perturbation MP2=FULL -0.000528 -0.005128 -0.005128 -0.003300 -0.015175 -0.010388 -0.011189 -0.060316 -0.055849 -0.023510 -0.050912 -0.006443 -0.039977 -0.086804 -0.007575 -0.041630
MP3=FULL         -0.008957   -0.015088                  
MP4=FULL   -0.004879     -0.010098       -0.057486     -0.006019 -0.040575   -0.007139 -0.047679
Coupled Cluster CCSD=FULL         -0.009891           -0.052442 -0.005874 -0.039990 -0.089012 -0.006958 -0.047086
CCSD(T)=FULL         -0.010039           -0.052781 -0.005985 -0.040431 -0.089952 -0.007085 -0.047500
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