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

For CHD3 (methane-d3)

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
Moller Plesset perturbation MP2=FULL -0.000456 -0.001592 -0.001592 -0.001268 -0.004490 -0.005230 -0.005270 -0.018275 -0.018809 -0.007336 -0.016964 -0.002852 -0.016328 -0.028719 -0.003095 -0.018536 -0.029209
MP3=FULL         -0.004460   -0.006512                    
MP4=FULL   -0.001529     -0.004474       -0.019695     -0.002705 -0.017038   -0.002951 -0.019458  
Coupled Cluster CCSD=FULL         -0.004425           -0.017797 -0.002657 -0.016857 -0.030002 -0.002899 -0.019259 -0.030523
CCSD(T)=FULL         -0.004468           -0.017896 -0.002692 -0.017002 -0.030265 -0.002937 -0.019420 -0.030791
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