The relative thermodynamics of 12 isomers of both cyanophenol and cyanothiophenol have been computed by DFT and composite approaches. It is shown that these methodologies are capable of correctly reproducing the energetics of the three cyanophenols, anthranil, and phenylisocyanate but have a fair behavior when dealing with benzoxazole and benzothiazole compounds. The estimated values for the latter two species are always less positive than the experimental results, indicating that the theoretical approaches predict a much too stable compound.