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

For F2SO (Thionyl Fluoride)

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 cc-pV(T+d)Z aug-cc-pV(T+d)Z
Moller Plesset perturbation MP2=FULL -0.001036 -0.011153 -0.019156 -0.006801 -0.020384 -0.020384 -0.022174 -0.176944 -0.176944 -0.044262 -0.080710 -0.013966 -0.075573 -0.017596 -0.083870 -0.139898 -0.148022
MP3=FULL         -0.019289   -0.047639                    
MP4=FULL   -0.010188     -0.019307       -0.177242     -0.012855 -0.074922 -0.016414 -0.083388 -0.140162 -0.148490
Coupled Cluster CCSD=FULL         -0.019017           -0.080731 -0.012644 -0.073837 -0.016289 -0.082411 -0.138162 -0.146567
CCSD(T)=FULL         -0.019342           -0.081502 -0.012899 -0.074926 -0.016548 -0.083477 -0.139817 0.059872
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 cc-pV(T+d)Z aug-cc-pV(T+d)Z