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

For CHBrCl2 (Methane, bromodichloro-)

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) 6-311+G(3df,2p) TZVP cc-pVDZ cc-pVTZ cc-pVQZ aug-cc-pVDZ aug-cc-pVTZ aug-cc-pVQZ daug-cc-pVDZ daug-cc-pVTZ
Moller Plesset perturbation MP2=FULL -0.000584 -0.013812 -0.035823 -0.017526 -0.052658 -0.052878 -0.054941 -0.511556 -0.511783 -0.133992 -0.656035 -0.137453 -0.022737 -0.128722 -0.234975 -0.027852 -0.142293 -0.240459 -0.029411 -0.148134
MP3=FULL         -0.048894   -0.051094       -0.600305 -0.125118 -0.019861 -0.118760            
B2PLYP=FULL -0.000180 -0.004189 -0.010821 -0.005210 -0.015956 -0.016020 -0.016633 -0.149536 -0.149603 -0.040674 -0.191860 -0.040491 -0.006923 -0.038314   -0.008457 -0.042168   -0.008926 -0.043848
Quadratic configuration interaction QCISD(T)=FULL         -0.049968           -0.619845   -0.020659 -0.123312   -0.025645 -0.136775      
Coupled Cluster CCSD=FULL         -0.048858         -0.123233 -0.612846 -0.127628 -0.019853 -0.120027   -0.024642 -0.133375      
CCSD(T)=FULL         -0.049939           -0.619632 -0.130437 -0.020641 -0.123188   -0.025605        
STO-3G 3-21G 3-21G* 6-31G 6-31G* 6-31G** 6-31+G** 6-311G* 6-311G** 6-31G(2df,p) 6-311+G(3df,2p) TZVP cc-pVDZ cc-pVTZ cc-pVQZ aug-cc-pVDZ aug-cc-pVTZ aug-cc-pVQZ daug-cc-pVDZ daug-cc-pVTZ