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

For NH2CCNH2 (Diaminoacetylene)

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 -0.001306 -0.006928 -0.006928 -0.005069 -0.017258 -0.018048 -0.018474 -0.075482 -0.076328 -0.036903 -0.068973 -0.009999 -0.060487 -0.011581 -0.069636
MP3=FULL         -0.016856   -0.018089       -0.071772 -0.009362 -0.061895    
MP4=FULL   -0.006596     -0.016818       -0.079183     -0.009313 -0.062106 -0.010882 -0.071962
B2PLYP=FULL -0.000394 -0.002062 -0.002062 -0.001506 -0.005123 -0.005349 -0.005488 -0.021555 -0.021791 -0.010700 -0.019714 -0.002975 -0.017592 -0.003444 -0.020170
Quadratic configuration interaction QCISD(T)=FULL         -0.016780             -0.009264 -0.062004 -0.010819 -0.071843
Coupled Cluster CCSD=FULL         -0.016658         -0.037108 -0.071641 -0.009147 -0.061521 -0.010681 -0.071313
CCSD(T)=FULL         -0.016788           -0.072057 -0.009265 -0.062010 -0.010821 -0.035651
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