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

For CH6N3+ (guanidinium)

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 aug-cc-pVDZ aug-cc-pVTZ
Moller Plesset perturbation MP2=FULL -0.001191 -0.007188 -0.007188 -0.004960 -0.015580 -0.016662 -0.017182 -0.075751 -0.076681 -0.037062 -0.069515 -0.010348 -0.061273 -0.011867 -0.070888
MP3=FULL         -0.014696   -0.024911                
Coupled Cluster CCSD(T)=FULL         -0.014997           -0.072343 -0.009601 -0.062625 -0.011097 -0.038938
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 aug-cc-pVDZ aug-cc-pVTZ